bought Magix which is supposed to include sound forge.have recorded some songs but cannot burn them on to cd.as windows media player dose not recognise file endings.the program (magix ) wont let me use sound forge.HELP.
Welcome to the Magix user to user forums.
First, there is no such program as Magix. Magix is the company name, so exactly which Magix program have you bought?
From the context of what you are asking I might guess you have actually bought the latest version of Music Maker, which now includes Sound Forge Audio Studio. Is that correct?
If so, you also need to explain in much greater detail exactly what you are wanting to do and where Windows Media Player fits in to all of this!
Jeff
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Thankyou for your prompt reply. You are right, Magix is the company name. What I am trying to do is open up Sound Forge 12.6 to retrieve an album of songs I recorded, overdubbed in Music Maker. The way music Maker works I think, is to assign tracks to Wave Pad Sound Editor. Wave Pad is by a company called NCH. NCH, is on the computers system, but I have not subscribed to their account. Sound Forge exists on the computer, but remains closed, as the serial number given for initial activation of Music Maker, is incompatable with Sound Forge, error 14, for instance. Initially I recorded all the tracks in Audacity. This music soft ware currently holds all the playable tracks. In Music Maker, you can over dub, and create Midi components. There may well be a conflict of programmes, or a Cul-De-Sac in the form of NCH, where music is stored, but non-retrievalble owing to the fact of inactivation.
Hope this all makes sense yours Simon Tregear.
Thank you. That is a little clearer now, though I am not at all sure what Wavepad Sound Editor has to do with anything! As far as I can tell from your post it is irrelevant to your problem; if you have not subscribed to their account I would be tempted to completely uninstall it, if only to ensure there is no software conflict anywhere.
As to Sound Forge Audio Studio, supplied as a freebie within the new Music Maker, I do not think it actually requires a serial number if it is installed as part of the MM installation. What happens if you click on it to open it? I have it as part of the upgrade to the new version of MM and see that it has a serial number recorded on the Help>About screen; it is different to the serial number I have for MM so I presume it must have been allocated when I first installed the MM upgrade. (Just as a matter of interest, the supplied version of Sound Forge Audio Studio is actually now quite "old". The supplied version is 12.6, the current latest is 14.)
However, since I am still unclear about the exact process you are using to create your CD tracks, can I check this with you? It seems from what you write that you are recording the tracks from a CD into Audacity (why?), then importing the resulting .wav files into MM, then adding some MIDI track(s), then attempting to burn the resulting files to CD.
Rather than the use of Audacity, since MM has the facility to "Import tracks from Audio CD" (under the File menu), why not use that, add your MIDI overdubs and then File>Export>Common export options>Burn Audio CD? This will create a .wav file for each "song" which you can then burn to CD.
HTH
Jeff
Thanks Jeff, for your reply. Yes using Audacity is probably making life a little bit more difficult. Audacity does have some rather good editing features, and never let's me down when doing studio recordings. But I have taken notes of your email, and will try to put MM through its paces. As for the Wave Pad sound editor, I will uninstall it, and see if MM will allocate to Sound Forge instead. It is all still a bit of a steep learning curve for me at the moment, only having realised my passion for music rather late in life. So bear with me, as I try to make music available for all, with your kind help. Yours Simon.