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I am literally about to cry.

FL isn't letting me open up one of my tracks, and all I have that remains of it is an mp3 bounce I did last minute late last night. WHAT DO!? Is there any way I could turn that into a wav without a noticeable drop in quality? What do you guys think? Asking here because I'm worried about the technical issues with the song being in the wrong file format.

Did this basically kill any chance of my tune going on a good label or being taken seriously?

If it's a 320, it's not as good as a wav but it's somewhat close. Better than nothing. I wouldn't convert it though, instead play the MP3 and record it to wav via the stereo mix option in a DAW ('what you hear').
If it's lower quality than 320, I'd just live with it and take it as a lesson learned. A few project of mine from 7 or 8 years ago that I really wish I could work on or have a high quality render of because I like them a lot have been lost and all I have are 192Kbit MP3s. From now on only render 320 and wav.

You can try this, it has worked for a lot of people when it becomes corrupted from errors in the file headers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/flprecovery/files/
I don't know if that still works on new versions, or if it has been updated... seems abandoned. You can also try to fix it yourself via a hex editor, I have successfully fixed corrupted files with header issues that way.

FL 10?

Go to your projects folder, back up a bit. There's one called 'Backup' (IIRC, can check at home) that autosaves every now and then. Unless you told it not to, in which case, derp, lol.

Maxxan wrote:FL 10?

Go to your projects folder, back up a bit. There's one called 'Backup' (IIRC, can check at home) that autosaves every now and then. Unless you told it not to, in which case, derp, lol.

this. Also "Save as new version" every now and then helps in many cases, if you want to go back and do something differently etc

delete the massive database file. google it.

I had the problem a while ago that one of my project files corrupted, and only found this out once I had worked on a bunch of other stuff, which then proceded override the backup of the one that actually got corrupted. Luckily I'd bounced most of the synths so that wasn't an issue...

Assuming he's using Massive RandoRando.

Reason doesn't do this.

Save new versions, save new versions, save new versions.

AxeD wrote:Reason doesn't do this.

It's doesn't do anything else either

Attila wrote:

AxeD wrote:Reason doesn't do this.

It's doesn't do anything else either

I think Coki and Icicle have a different opinion on that

Hircine wrote:

Attila wrote:

AxeD wrote:Reason doesn't do this.

It's doesn't do anything else either

I think Coki and Icicle have a different opinion on that

Not to mention Kill the Noise

Let's not get into the DAW debate AGAIN!!!!

Sure_Fire wrote:

Hircine wrote:

Attila wrote:

AxeD wrote:Reason doesn't do this.

It's doesn't do anything else either

I think Coki and Icicle have a different opinion on that

Not to mention Kill the Noise

think he's combo of reason and ableton atm
he used logic and reason pre ableton
ICR and The Widdler are other notable Reason users, but yea pointless facts

Hircine wrote:

Attila wrote:

AxeD wrote:Reason doesn't do this.

It's doesn't do anything else either

I think Coki and Icicle have a different opinion on that

cokis been using logic for awhile, and icicle uses logic for his mixdown.

Nevalo wrote:

Hircine wrote:

Attila wrote:

AxeD wrote:Reason doesn't do this.

It's doesn't do anything else either

I think Coki and Icicle have a different opinion on that

cokis been using logic for awhile, and icicle uses logic for his mixdown.

most people who are reason heads use it for the synths since they learn them and another DAW for arrangement and mixdown