Hello Guys--
 
Been recording for decades and I may not always have the most current or the top of the line gear, but I always have pro gear. I work with commercial tracks as reference points when I mix and master and X2 is the first "pro" gear I've had that cannot import a copy protected MP3 audio file! Wavelab does. Sound Forge does. X2 = "out of memory".
 
I didn't even know that "out of memory" could mean the audio was copy-protected until I looked it up on the CW site.
 
Rather than just rant here, does anyone know how to tell if an MP3 file's copy-protection is not compatible as an audio import in X2 BEFORE you purchase the MP3? I've got two current Pop song MP3s. One imports, one does not. How could I tell the difference BEFORE I purchase the MP3?
 
 

IIRC the out of memory error typically points to something that is embedded (such as a picture) in the MP3 file.

Regards,

Burn the protected mp3 to an audio cd using itunes or whatever. then rip the song from the cd and that will remove the DRM copy protection if that is the problem. Hope that will help you.

I open them in Soundforge and save as a wave file then import the wave.

Yeah, it is the Windows library that CW uses. As others have said, use one of your audio editors to save it as a wav.

vintagevibe


I open them in Soundforge and save as a wave file then import the wave.

Yeah, that's a good idea. Just don't understand why SF wrote their software to allow it and Sonar didn't.

It's probably not a matter of copy protection, but rather of the tag format. SONAR can't handle ID3 2.4 tags, and it's not the only audio program that can't. 

From the ID3.org website:

While there are legacy and future standards for ID3 tags, the most popular version implemented today is ID3 version 2.3. A follow on version, 2.4, is documented on this website but has not achieved popular status due to some disagreements on some of the revisions and the tremendous inertia present in the software and hardware marketplace.

Of course, Apple has never let standards get in the way of anything. (I'm guessing you bought the MP3 in question from iTunes.)

The only solution I know of is to load it into another program and re-save it.