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Here's a weird one for you

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robnokshus06

Anyone ever have this happen to them? It just happened to me.

A client contacted me today to say that a batch of mortgage spots that I had produced for him had the wwrong interest rate in the 2nd half of the spot. While we were on the phone, I hunted down the .zip folder that I had sent him, and in the interest of expediting the situation double-clicked on the spot from within the zip folder and played it in Windows Media Player. Sure, enough, there were two different interest rates in the spot and I told him I would fix it right away.

So I opened the sessions for the spots and, whataya know? All three versions had the correct interest rates. I couldn't have rendered the spot to mp3 prior to the final mix seeing as I didn't do any rendering until I had finished all of the mixes, rendering them one after another. I then listend to the mp3 masters-all correct-and, finally, dragged the offending mp3s from the zip folder to my desktop and played them in Sound Forge... where they ALL PLAYED CORRECTLY!

This truly has me baffled. These spots play perfectly, with all of the correct information in Vegas and Sound Forge, but opened directly from the zip folder with Windows Media Player and the play with the wrong information? How does this happen? I didn't do any renders to WMA, only mp3. Anyone ever experience this and have a simple explanation for it?
 
Microsoft works in mysterious and maddening ways. You may have to delete any .WAV files before your computer will truly zip up the .mp3s
you intended. Check all the preferred "open file with" associations, and make sure some benevolent Microsoft update didn't "help"
you by grabbing all the associations.....I turn off almost all Windows media player associations......and make SURE Windows Media Player is set to Work OFFline.
 
Ha.

Well, I figured out what happened, and maybe some of you have had this happen to you...

I F*%#ed up!

Suffice it to say it was human error (this human's) and a failure to follow one of the basic rules of production, namely Check Your Work! Embarassing yes, but you are never too lod to learn a lesson. :-[


Now, how's that megaphone effect coming?
 
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