"____.m4a" - what kind of file is this? (What kind of question is this?)

Hi,
I recently got a new MacBook, and installed my copy of Logic Express 7 on it. I previously had it running on my old MacBook, with no problems. My new MacBook has Leopard on it, and my old one had Tiger.
When I try to open a project that uses samples from ".m4a" sound files, I get the message "'__.m4a' - what kind of file is this?" I am forced to hit "abort" for every sample in the project, and once I've done this, Logic gives me the message "Logic Express has found 109 files in 8-bit format. This format is unsupported and cannot be played back." I then hit "OK," and my project loads, full of blank samples.
No other audio applications are experiencing any sorts of problems like these. On my old MacBook, I had similar problems (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=991819&tstart=1245), but these were not specific to Logic. I've tried "Verifying Drive" and "Repairing Permissions" in Disk Utility, as was the suggestion last time I got a similar message, but it hasn't worked at all.
Does anyone have any ideas as to how I might fix this?
Thanks very much!
- David

David Kanaga wrote:
Hi,
I recently got a new MacBook, and installed my copy of Logic Express 7 on it. I previously had it running on my old MacBook, with no problems. My new MacBook has Leopard on it, and my old one had Tiger.
When I try to open a project that uses samples from ".m4a" sound files, I get the message "'__.m4a' - what kind of file is this?" I am forced to hit "abort" for every sample in the project, and once I've done this, Logic gives me the message "Logic Express has found 109 files in 8-bit format. This format is unsupported and cannot be played back." I then hit "OK," and my project loads, full of blank samples.
No other audio applications are experiencing any sorts of problems like these. On my old MacBook, I had similar problems (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=991819&tstart=1245), but these were not specific to Logic. I've tried "Verifying Drive" and "Repairing Permissions" in Disk Utility, as was the suggestion last time I got a similar message, but it hasn't worked at all.
Does anyone have any ideas as to how I might fix this?
Thanks very much!
- David
Convert the m4a files into aiff or wav files. and then re-import them into your project sampler.
Cheers

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