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Before You Begin 7 About Making Audio a Priority 46 About Movie Maker Audio See Also 48 Add a Soundtrack to Your Video Movie Maker supports the import of audio files that have the following filename extensions: .aif, .aifc, .aiff, .asf, .au, .mp2, .mp3, .mpa, .snd, .wav , and .wma . Of these 11 types, .mp3 (called MPEG), .wav (called wave ), and .wma (from Windows Media Player) are by far the most common. As with imported video content, when Movie Maker imports audio files, the files appear in your Collections pane. Actually, a representation of the audio file appears in your Collections pane. TIP
Movie Maker never makes a copy of your imported audio file ”it only links to that file from your Collections pane. Therefore, you cannot move, rename, or delete an audio file after you've imported it into your collection; otherwise , Movie Maker won't be able to locate the file. If you move the file to another location, you will have to import the audio file once again into your project's collection. Microsoft created Movie Maker to adhere to digital rights management encoding. Therefore, if your audio file is protected in some way by digital rights management, you will be unable to import the audio file into your project. For more information about digital rights management, see 21 Import Video into Movie Maker . NOTE
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