I downloaded audiocatalyst as advised and it tells me that my files are 'invalid file types'. It states that my m3u is not a supported pcm wave file. I've searched their site for info and put in for help,but I've received no response. I know this isn't a winamp problem but I thought you may know what i need to do. Thanks.

Audio catalyst is right. It can do only 3 things:
<UL TYPE=SQUARE>
<LI>Get CD-audio to WAV/MP3
<LI>Make MP3s out of WAVs
<LI>Normalize MP3s by turning them to Wavs and back to MP3s
</UL>
As you can see, it cant do anything with M3Us

.m3u is a winamp playlist file. audiocatalyst doesn't know what it is. you should be working with a cd or wav files and mp3 files. gandalf listed what audiocatalyst does with those files.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mr. Ice:
.m3u is a winamp playlist file. audiocatalyst doesn't know what it is. you should be working with a cd or wav files and mp3 files. gandalf listed what audiocatalyst does with those files.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I thought they were wav files- atleast that's what my intentions were-what's a m3u file? I used winamp to convert my mp3's to wav so how did they become m3u's?

.m3u's, as Mr. Ice said, are the playlist files used by Winamp. If you open one up in a text editor, you can see it's just a list of the files with their lengths.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Livn4Golf:
.m3u's, as Mr. Ice said, are the playlist files used by Winamp. If you open one up in a text editor, you can see it's just a list of the files with their lengths.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

So how did they become m3u's? Does that mean they were never encoded to waves? I thought I correctly went through the procedure to convert them. I did what the instructions said and it appeared to work. So now what do I do? I would really like to have my music back to a playable form.- Whatever my files are-they won't play through winamp. I hope this makes sense.

It sounds like you have played a CD, then selected save playlist as a way of "ripping" the tracks. This has just created a list of the tracks on your CD in the right order in a .m3u file.

You can do the whole thing from audio catalyst. IE tell it to rip from your cd, chuck the m3u away..

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by THEMike:
It sounds like you have played a CD, then selected save playlist as a way of "ripping" the tracks. This has just created a list of the tracks on your CD in the right order in a .m3u file.

You can do the whole thing from audio catalyst. IE tell it to rip from your cd, chuck the m3u away..<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Actually I got the mp3's from Napster and converted them to wav's so I could put them on a cd. So I never got the music from a cd. My brother deleted the mp3's and left me with wav's( or so I thought they were) I need to know how to get this things back to mp3's.since the audiocatalyst can't read them.

if you rename the files to .wav from .m3u it they should be fine

1) this is a super old thread...
2) tuner's info is 100% wrong. don't do what he said unless you want to see how good winamp's error handling is. (sorry tuner) assuming someone out there is in this situation, you need to reconvert the wavs into mp3s. audiocatalyst (among hundreds of others) can do this. you just have to tell it you're starting with a wav file and not a cd.

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