Error to Reference in line 7?

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Please help me! My file won’t open!

I receive the error message:

Reference to invalid character at line 7. ???

I attached the file below.

I’m using Windows 7 64 bit, but also dual boot onto Ubuntu (Linux) … the file was created in Windows
file.aup (6.22 KB)

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Make a backup copy of the .AUP file.
Open the original .AUP file in a plain text editor (such as NotePad for Windows or GEdit for Linux) and delete the line:

		<tag name="TITLE" value="¸yÌ&#x0003;d Effects - GLASS, SMASH - LARGE WINDOW PANE: HEAVY IMPACT SMASH, HIT, CRASH"/>

Then save the file.
Upgrade your Windows version of Audacity to 2.0 http://audacityteam.org/download/

3

Deleted the line.

Now, I get the error:

Audacity did not recognize the type of the file ‘C: [filepath] .aup’. If it is uncompressed, try importing it using “import Raw”.

4

Use “File menu > Open”

5

Same problem.

6

What is the name of the .AUP file that you are trying to open?

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Annies Trick Act 1

and I also changed it to

AnniesTrick

Neither work.

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Try this file:
Annie Trick Act I.aup (6.1 KB)

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Thanks so much! But…it did it again. Line 10 this time. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?
Annie Trick Act I.aup (10.1 KB)

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It looks like the sound effect files from http://www.sounddogs.com you have imported have some garbage characters in their “Title” MP3 tags and they get propagated into your project.
File → Open Metadata Editor; make sure to clean up the Title tag.
garbage_in_mp3tags.png
I have attached a cleaned-up version of your project file.

–
Ragnar
Annie Trick Act I.aup (10 KB)

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Thank you, again, so much. In the future I will make sure to clean the files up BEFORE importing… :slight_smile: