MP3 drag and drop question

[OWD]

Hi every one. I'm new here too and have been using cool edit for quite some time now. I've tried many other programs but cool edit seems to be the best one to me.

I have the MP3 plugin and it works fine but the problem I have is when I drag and drop an MP3. Most of the time it works with no problems but every once and a while, a window will pop up saying ( Interpret sample format as )

I tried using some of the options that it had in that window but it always comes out as a loud his.

Could anyone tell me why this is and how I may be able to correct it ?

Thank you for any info.

Shawn

[Jeyan]

looks like the audio file you opened is created in some format that cooledit is not familiar with and it tries to interpret the audio into its known samples. This is from cool edit help.. see if helps,

"If a source file is unreadable, or in a raw format without any header information, then Cool Edit Pro’s Batch Processor needs to know what file type to assume for the data. Pressing the Open Raw PCM As… button allows you to define a global file type for interpretation in such cases; you will need to set the sample rate, channels, resolution, and formatting. This ensures that the batch process will run continuously without interruption by dialogs asking for input data formats on headerless files."

by the way did you create those mp3s?

[OWD]

Thank you very much Jeyan for the reply.

I'm going to try your suggestion.

By the way, this only happens with MP3s that I get from sites on the net.
Sometimes I will get on a site were they offer an MP3 down load that I wish to keep but the audio needs to be cleaned up a bit first and that's where I run into a snag every once and a while because the MP3 will not upload without that window comming up.

What you said makes perfect sense.
Thanks again.
Shawn

[OWD]

I was just messing around with it and figured out how to put it into cool edit in a different way. I've never used cool edit for this kind of thing so I never knew how to do it but I set my sound card to Stereo mix, turned the volume for stereo mix down to almost nothing, Set cool edit so that it recorded in stereo, played the MP3 using real player and recorded it in cool edit in real time.

It takes longer but it worked perfect.
Thanks again.

Shawn