rookie idiot in need of help

[cmckinley1]

hi, i'm getting married this weekend and need help putting together music for the ceremony. i'm trying to take some songs and edit them (just use short segments of them) and burn them to a CD, i thought this would be easy but...

the problem i'm having right off the bat is when i try to either "open" off the file menu OR "import audio" off the project menu all i get is <1 second of audio. how do i get the whole song to work with?

everything i've seen says audacity is the best free editing software but is it too sophisticated for my needs? is there something simpler or am i just leotarded?

any help is much appreciated - i don't have much time

carl

[kozikowski]

You almost told us where the music was. Where is it? What are you trying to open?

Koz

[cmckinley1]

saved on my C drive

[cmckinley1]

i also have it on cd, it's what i would call a single track but that's probably not right. it's a "song" some music.

[kozikowski]

Does it sound normal when you play that one second, or is it insanely speeded up like it's on drugs?

By where did you get it from, I mean did you download it? Did you purchase a Music CD with the song on it? iTunes?

Typically, a failure to open music means Audacity doesn't recognize the music format. Almost always it means the music was downloaded and is in a modern compressed format.

Try Audacity 1.3.12. It will recognize many more different formats of music than 1.2. Also, you may need the FFMpeg plugin to do some of this.

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Koz

[cmckinley1]

i saved a cd to my pc w/windows media player.

now having installed 1.3.12 and plug-ins i'm getting a dialogue box that says

"Error Importing
Audacity recognized the type of the file 'C:...(song destination on my pc)......wma
Importers supposedly supporting such files are:
FFMpeg compatible files,
but none of them understood this file format"

when i click the help button of that dialogue box it pops up another box titled "Unsupported Formats" beneath which says
wma-proprietary

does this mean i can't use any of the music i have so diligently saved to my pc using windows media player because they are wma files?

i'm starting to freak......