WMM2 soundtrack - Can't use my downloaded music

[tmh]

I was making a video for my kids' basketball team with WMM2. I captured from my camcorder and edited the AVI files, made my timeline how I wanted, etc. All fine - done it before. Now I wanted to add a soundtrack. WMM2 won't let me add commercial music that I legally downloaded. What's with this?

Am I not allowed to do this? If so, how come almost any similar homemade video I've ever seen had a soundtrack? Do other programs have this limitation? Is there a "workaround" to get WMM2 to use these music files?

WMM2 really does all I need so I'd hate to have to learn another edit/create program. I use various encoders after outputting my video from WMM2 as an AVI file and am very pleased with my process.

[racer-x]

Try converting your soundtrack to 48 khz wav before importing. There's no reason it shouldn't work, but then I don't use WMM2.

[tmh]

I don't think I was clear about the problem. I think it's a copyright issue that WMM2 objects to. I could be wrong, but it seemed the eror msg. had to do with not being able to import a copyrighted song. I'm not at my home computer now or I'd check it for sure.

[tekkieman]

Was it an error or a warning? I've seen the warning, and you can still continue.

[tmh]

I checked it out and here is the WMM2 message I get (no, it won't let me proceed with adding the audio).

The file C:\Documents and Settings\Tom H\My Documents\My Music\Maynard Ferguson - Gonna Fly Now [Theme from Rocky] [Album Version].wma is protected using digital rights management and cannot be imported.

It happens with most songs I have tried. It seems at some time I was successful with some song(s) but I'm really not sure now.

[tekkieman]

Well, I don't really want to get into the legal issues of using published works in your production. That said, I would suggest you do a search of this site for "DRM". It might give you some ideas.