Impossible to import music files into wondows movie maker. Help!

Hi, im trying to import some .mp3 files in movie maker (with vista) and I get an error message saying that "it contains no valid audio data" and others that are important, I can't use as windows the song is more than 24 hours, when the song is actually 4 or 5 minutes. Why this is happening and how to fix it?

Hi r.achtel,

What is the format of the file that is having problems with the length of the song? This only happens with this specific file format?

Please provide the complete error message you receive.

Step 1: You can follow the procedure presented by John Inzer, MVP Saturday, August 8, 2009 17:50 in the link below:

http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/vistamedia/thread/8e6841de-4EDB-4AF6-B179-3498b2461f6d

Step 2: Run SFC (System File Checker) Scan  

The System File Checker (SFC) utility allows administrators to perform an analysis of all protected resources to make sure they are the correct version. Whether SFC should find all incorrect versions in one of these protected resources, SFC will be replaced by the correct versions.

You can still run a SFC scan on the windows vista computer. To run a scan suite SFC as follows:

(a) click Start and in the start search bar type cmd, right-click on the command prompt icon in the box programs and then click Run as administrator.

(b) at the command prompt type sfc/scannow , and then press ENTER.

For more information, see the link below

Solve problems with importing files in Windows Movie Maker

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/troubleshoot-problems-with-importing-files-into-Windows-Movie-Maker

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