mp3 may be corupt or not liscensed for use - Abelton

Iv found this when I Download heavly sampled artists such as Wille hitch, singers unlimited, anyway around this such as converting the mp3 to a different Format wav mpa file?

You can always bounce it again into a different format, the only problem with that is once an mp3 always an mp3 bouncing it to a wav file is only going to make it heavier in memory. The quality isn't going to change. I use to use Audacity for stuff like this, when I wanted to add skits and stuff.

ableton gives that warning when importing an mp3???????

Never got one since version 6

Well it wont allow you to import the mp3 and tells you its not licensed for use, I read years back that they were going to put codes into mp3's to protect artists from been sampled, guess they finally did it.

It's DRM protected. That is, the file has digital rights managment metadata directly written into it or its file header. Most media outlets (iTunes Store, Amazon, et cetera) don't use DRM in their files anymore but when they did you likely needed proprietary software to play it. This isn't a problem with Live, it's a problem with the file as many other audio software will have their own likewise restrictions with these types of files, even if you don't get a nice warning prompt.

That or it actually truly is corrupt.

Regardless, the easiest things to do is just redownload the file from elsewhere, find a way to record it, or buy it.

that's absurd. can't believe ableton complies with that crap.
unless the thing isn't an mp3 and it's actually an m4a, in which case you deserve all of the trouble that comes with being ignorant enough to use that format

Best thing to do is sample it through your headphone out and export it into Ableton. But this is how things will be and why samplers went software. You got marked son, 666

Nym wrote:that's absurd.

Yeah.

It happened again, I had a bunch of sample mix tapes by scorpio, they worked before and now it says there corrupt, seriously pissing me off.

Does anyone know if everything downloaded from itunes is protected from been used in ableton?

again, is it an mp3 or an m4a?
open the file in another editor and rerender it to a format that doesn't get anyone's panties twisted
use Reaper's batch sampler editor

or playback and resample while playing

ed wrote:Does anyone know if everything downloaded from itunes is protected from been used in ableton?

Generally all the iTunes purchased stuff used to have DRM encoded in the file. The funny thing was in most case the tracks could be burnt to CD and re-imported to iTunes and then the DRM was seemingly gone. At the very least you could freely copy and move the files.

After customer backlash and feedback iTunes started to offer non-DRM files. So people asked, "are these files 100% freely useable and DRM free?"

The answer was that the files were in fact DRM free but the user who purchased them has their account details embedded/striped in the filers headers and no amount of re-conversion or burning would get rid of that.

So iTunes non-DRM purchased content if it shows up on blog pages or bit torrent can be traced back to the source every time.

I just tested it. I was able to load both DRM protected AAC purchased iTunes from prior to the policy change and also purchased AAC files from after they dropped the DRM. These are my own legitimate files dragged from the iTunes install/account I bought them on.

iTunes still uses the policy of having to have "x" amount of computers cleared to play your purchased content. But I can't see any way Ableton would ever know this.

I just tried one of the purchased AAC's converted to mp3, that loaded fine too. So I have no idea what's going on if people have files that will play otherwise but are seen as corrupt upon trying to use in Ableton.