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I know this is rumored to be coming anyway, but native MP3 support is crucial. For me, it really doesn't matter how much processor power this uses because I'd only be using 3 MP3 tracks simultaneously anyway. I've got an iBook 800 and when I convert an MP3 to AIFF using iTunes it converts at about 22X realtime, and that's including writing the resulting file to disk.

Any way to use QuickTime as the engine for translating formats so any QuickTime-supported file type (e.g. MP4/AAC) can be imported/exported? This would be fantastic.

Oops, this was my post; I guess I was logged out before I submitted.

also on a related note it would be nice if Live used the ID3 tags for BPM/relative volume/equalization/etc. More info here:

http://www.unixgods.org/~tilo/ID3/docs/ ... rison.html

WORD TO THAT!

I fully agree to mp3 support. I want to be able to mix multiple full songs but don't want to waste space on all the wav files. Live is the only reason I have any songs in wav format, the rest of my music on my disk is in mp3 format.

Hey, as long as we're harping for mp3 support, I'd like to throw in a vote for Ogg Vorbis support. Better quality and smaller files than mp3, and because it's open source, you don't need to pay any fees to Fraunhauffer for commercial use.

By "you," I mean ableton. They would have to pay Fraunhauffer a small fee for every copy of Live they sold with mp3 support.

-- T. G. --

please please keep it simple
mp3 is lame
wave aiff is pro and live works great with it
keep it pro
cheers
audio girl

mp3 is not for pro use
keep away from mp3 please ableton
peace
takashi

audio girl and takashi,

There are alot of people out there who wants mp3 support, especially people who play music in a club enviroment, where the mp3 quality is good enough.

If you think mp3 not PRO enough, DONT USE IT, but I for sure would like to have the option.

Cant wait to see it implemented.

peter

Why even write dedicated MP3 decoders, etc. instead of just letting QuickTime do the file handling?

This would provide a raft of advantages, including allowing Live to support any format for which there is a QuickTime codec available (including Ogg and MP4/AAC) and would prevent Ableton to have to write additional file handlers in the future.

This would also allow Live to seamlessly support music purchased from the new iTunes Music Store.

"If you think mp3 not PRO enough, DONT USE IT, but I for sure would like to have the option. "

Word to that. You said that like a true pro

here here - why expand the capabilities of the software - i say "Let's keep our options limited" - jees - some people.......

so some of you generalize and think mp3 is bad, just because they
never heard any better mp3s than those with ridiculous 128 bitrate?
listen to some R3MIX mp3s and tell me if you can hear any difference
to the original. mp3 is NOT suited for postprocessing - since mp3
encoding makes assumptions on the frequency spectrum, you are not
supposed to make major changes to that after decoding. but that
doesn't mean you can't use mp3 for a really flexible deejay set!

not everyone wants to always play the same live set no matter where
he is performing/deejaying.. i want to be able to quickly drop a new
track into the current set and mix it in.. mp3 is currently the format
for a flexible dj set. if i was limited to uncompressed music, my "record
case" would amount to some 50 tracks - gone the advantage of being
a laptop dj. ogg would be fine too, but it would require me to reencode
all material.

and finally.. yes you don't want to use mp3 for the professional production
of a new track.. but sincerely i couldn't seriously produce with live anyway -
compared to a professional tool like cubase it's still missing huge amounts
of features. and second.. how many tracks these days have their vocals
recorded in the bedroom? so if you're a bedroom vocalist you may as well
have some background sounds decoded from mp3. nobody would ever
notice.

i've tried live a bit, but i won't be using it for now - mp3 support and much
more an autosave function in the case of an operating system crash (i'd
prefer live on linux anyway) are crucial features i need before i can go
further with it.

it just occured to me.. how can you be so nasty about mp3 decompression
if using live is all about timestretching and pitchshifting? i mean, you already
have subprofessional quality by using live in the first place. what you want
is ease to use and comfort - that's why you're using live - and i agree with
that, that's why i want to use live too, and i want my mp3s to go with it.

Anonymous wrote:here here - why expand the capabilities of the software - i say "Let's keep our options limited" - jees - some people.......

Sounds great to limit yourself... grow up!!!!