I can render a BIAB song to mp3, but when I try to do the same thing in RB, it tells me there is no codec installed on the system. If BIAB can do it, why can't RB?
If you get a "Driver cannot do requested conversion" or "out of bounds" error when trying to encode an MP3 file, this suggests that your computer does not have a compatible MP3 codec installed.
Band-in-a-Box 2020 uses a framework called Windows Media Foundation, which is a newer way of compressing audio.
RealBand use the Windows Audio Compression Manager functions to compress files. The types of files and bitrates that RealBand can encode depends on the codecs you have installed on your computer.
To solve the problem: You could either render your song out to .mp3 from with Band-in-a-Box OR in RealBand, save your file as a stereo wave file and do the conversion from wave to MP3 in a third party program.
Can we please get RB updated to use WMF instead of WACM ?
That would be huge to a lot of us. It's frustrating to be able to use this function in multiple other software/DAW situations but not in RB.
I appreciate the explanation and workaround, but this needs attention IMO. /not OP
If it can't render to MP3 at the very least it shouldn't offer that option. I get 2 MP3 options, neither works. If it is not installed on my system (though I think at least one is), why are they in the available list?
Last edited by rharv; 04/16/2001:03 PM.
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Thanks for your feedback, requests from users are what help us know exactly what to work on in build updates and new versions, and we're always trying to improve.
I think this request deserves some attention from our developers, so I'd recommend posting something about this in the Wishlist forum. I know that the devs are always looking at the Wishlist forum to know what they should be working on next, so it's a great place to make suggestions and have your voice heard.
This might help you. I also encountered the same problem. The answer you may or may not want to hear is there is another software you can buy that helps a lot.
It's fairly cheap right now and it has quite a few cool features. It's also user friendly. I'm not endorsing this software or trying to promote it, I just tried it and it worked for me.
Thanks, BAWB...I can use Adobe Audition to edit the wav file and output it as mp3...so I have a work-around. Just seems like since both these programs come packaged together that there should be tighter integration.
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