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#1 2010-06-01 11:56:23
- Pikachu4101
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Songs I've downloaded won't show!
Hi
I wnated to do a good first project so I downloaded a couple of songs for it, and saved them in my music folder. When I tried to import them to Scratch I went to music and I couldn't find them anywhere! Am I doing anything wrong?
Please help!
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#2 2010-06-01 11:58:43
- Pikachu4101
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Re: Songs I've downloaded won't show!
Oh I just found out one of them finally did come but when I import it it says "Unrecongnized audio file format." What does mean I have to do???
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#3 2010-06-01 11:59:48
Re: Songs I've downloaded won't show!
Pikachu4101 wrote:
Oh I just found out one of them finally did come but when I import it it says "Unrecongnized audio file format." What does mean I have to do???
You'll have to convert it to a different file format - which file format is the file you have?
This seems more fit to be in Troubleshooting, so I guess I'll move it there 
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#4 2010-06-01 14:21:21
- johnnydean1
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Re: Songs I've downloaded won't show!
Download RealPlayer and use that to convert it. Or use Audacity.
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#5 2010-06-02 05:54:44
- MyRedNeptune
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Re: Songs I've downloaded won't show!
Pikachu4101 wrote:
Oh I just found out one of them finally did come but when I import it it says "Unrecongnized audio file format." What does mean I have to do???
Your music file is a format that Scratch can't read. You will have to convert it to a different format... I usually use Audacity for stuff like that, you can download it here. Once you've got it installed, open your music file in it, then go to File/Export as MP3 and save, preferably with a different name so you can see which file is which. Now try importing the newly saved file into Scratch - it should work.
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#6 2010-06-04 11:42:59
- Pikachu4101
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Re: Songs I've downloaded won't show!
OK I tried that and now it's saying:
"Audicity does not export MP3 files directly, but instead uses the freely available LAME library to handle MP3 file encoding. You must obtain lame_enc.dll seperately, by downloading the LAME MP3 encoder, and the locate this file for Audicity. You only need to do this once.
Would you like to locate lame_enc.dll now?"
When I click yes - Languagesn, Nyquist and Plug-ins. Each them are not helpful so please tell me what to do???
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#7 2010-06-04 11:54:19
- Pikachu4101
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Re: Songs I've downloaded won't show!
OK never mind that I downloaded the encoder thing but ARGH!!!!!! now when I try to open it it doesn't show in the file I saved it in. GRRRRRR.
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#8 2010-06-04 17:50:59
Re: Songs I've downloaded won't show!
You could also use Zamzar (link to site), a free online conversion tool that sends the converted file to your e-mail. If you use Audacity, you should be able to convert to a .WAV file which works in scratch.
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#9 2010-06-05 02:05:40
- MyRedNeptune
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Re: Songs I've downloaded won't show!
Pikachu4101 wrote:
OK I tried that and now it's saying:
"Audicity does not export MP3 files directly, but instead uses the freely available LAME library to handle MP3 file encoding. You must obtain lame_enc.dll seperately, by downloading the LAME MP3 encoder, and the locate this file for Audicity. You only need to do this once.
Would you like to locate lame_enc.dll now?"
When I click yes - Languagesn, Nyquist and Plug-ins. Each them are not helpful so please tell me what to do???
If that pops up you can use "Export to wav" instead. 
Pikachu4101 wrote:
OK never mind that I downloaded the encoder thing but ARGH!!!!!! now when I try to open it it doesn't show in the file I saved it in. GRRRRRR.
Hmm...do you mean you can't find your song? You can just save it to a different place where it would be easier to find... like the Desktop.
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#10 2010-06-05 12:27:39
- Pikachu4101
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Re: Songs I've downloaded won't show!
I exported it as WAV. I can't find it. ARGH.
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#11 2010-06-24 13:59:41
- SunnyPeacepaw
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Re: Songs I've downloaded won't show!
.wav usually works for me, I don't know what other formats work. 
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