Mixdown problems

This problem is most likely caused by incorrect settings for mixdown for playing on a CD player. CD readers (and windows media, iTunes, etc) all play files that are created in 16 bit, 44.1kHz sampling only. change your settings when you mixdown to those settings and it will play.

First go to the edit dropdown, and pick "select all", everything should get shaded darker, then export as usual.

Firstly, thanks for your help guys.

Beagle - I know it's set at 16-bit but I'll have to check re: 44.1 kHz.
Robo - I don't think this is the problem but I'll check. I still have MC2 installed on my system and I don't experience any problems 'mixing down'.
Gamblerschoice - I've been doing 'CTRL + A' to select all so this probably isn't the problem.
millerbill - All tracks are definitely audio (I probably should have mentioned this earlier).

Anyhow, I'm at work at the moment, but will check out a few things when I get home.

Samhas

As mentioned in my last post, I went home yesterday and tried a few things.

I had a success straight away (without actually changing anything from the day before!) and I thought I'd overcome the problem --- I could export MC3 files to a wave file and play it on a wave player. Then I tried it again with another song and it didn't work. Also, the original wave that I had working okay didn't work any longer.

So I tried opening the exported wave file in MC3 (as suggested by Robo) and it worked fine but it didn't work if I opened it in Audacity. So I fiddled around for an hour or so, tyring different settings and software and still the same problem --- the MC3 files would seem to export to a wave file okay and the indicators in my wave player said that the wave file was playing, but I had no sound.

In frustration, I closed MC3 and then, as a last desperate act, I double-clicked on one of the exported wave files and it began playing with sound!!! All the other exported wave files worked okay too.

It seems that having MC3 open somehow prevented the wave files from playing --- presumably some type of software/hardware conflict! While it might be a bit of a pain having to close MC3 to play an exported wave file, I can live with that. I guess I'd better check to see if other (non-MC3 related wave files) play when I have MC3 open!

Thanks for your help guys.

Samhas

You old dog you!

While I'd resigned myself to closing MC3 whenever I wanted to play the mixed down wave files, I thought Beagle's idea was the obvious solution. Unfortunately, it wasn't!

I did what Beagle said and it made no difference (this is not meant as a criticism of Beagle because his idea is pretty logical). Any wave files I'd created with MC3 would not play in a wave player until I closed down MC3. I also tried playing other wave files that had nothing to do with MC3 and I experienced the same problem.

So I'd say that the problem is some sort of resource issue where MC3 won't allow the use of drivers (?) by other software.

I'm happy enough to continue on with this incovenience, however, if anyone has any further brilliant suggestions, they'd be appreciated.

Samhas

Are you usign ASIO? Hhhhmmmm curious, i will have to do some experimenting tommorrow evening