due to a catastrophic incident with a Cup of Coffee I have replaced My Mac, and Am attempting to redigitize My LP collection… Audacity is working Fine Up to the Export Multiple step. First project (Side A of "the alice cooper show) worked Fine, The Audacity exported 6 AAC files to The Folder “automatically Add to iTunes”
second Project(Side B), audacity, only exports the first song then Cancels…
03:10:44: Error: can’t open file ‘/Users/timothyjmccorkle/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Automatically Add to iTunes.localized/Devils Food/ The Black Widow (live).m4a’ (error 2: No such file or directory)
03:10:44: Error: FFmpeg : ERROR - Can’t open output file “/Users/timothyjmccorkle/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Automatically Add to iTunes.localized/Devils Food/ The Black Widow (live).m4a” to write. Error code is -2.
11:16:04: Error: can’t open file ‘/Users/timothyjmccorkle/Desktop/alice Cooper/Devils Food/ The Black Widow (live).m4a’ (error 2: No such file or directory)
11:16:04: Error: FFmpeg : ERROR - Can’t open output file “/Users/timothyjmccorkle/Desktop/alice Cooper/Devils Food/ The Black Widow (live).m4a” to write. Error code is -2.
any help is appreciated, Love the App, it works Great otherwise
Am attempting to redigitize My LP collection
Since you have a new machine, you may find that Time Machine is a wonderful thing for automatic backups to an external drive. I told Time Machine not to bother with the TV shows, but it does keep backups of everything in the iTunes folder.
I would start by inspecting for punctuation marks. For one example you have conflicting quote marks in your posting. Things like that can cause serious problems in OS-X. I know under certain circumstances the Mac will accept parens and other punctuation, but look for punctuation marks in your failure filenames that are missing from the successes.
Did you actually type those messages, or copy and paste?
The Black Widow (live).m4a
That’s not a valid filename. It starts with a space.
I don’t remember the rules for posting foreign music to the iTunes file system. I personally would have collected the music on a folder on the Desktop and then moved it to wherever I wanted it when I was done.
I know Export Multiple doesn’t change filenames in midstroke like that, but past those, I got nothing.
Koz
I copy and Pasted from the Audacity Logs… and as for My typing… well…
problem was resolved… I was Using slashes on Medley… for my Labels… this caused an Oversized pathname situation… Thanks for your Help!
Right. Punctuation Marks.
Stay away from dates. Today is not 11/24/12. It’s 20121124.
Koz
It’s a bug in Export Multiple, it should accept the forward slash, but doesn’t:
http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119 .
That said, the forward slash is normally meant as the separator between the folders in the path. You could have dragged a region for each filename and done File > Export Selection to force the / into the filename, but the “/” in the filename would appear as a colon in Audacity and some other programs.
And do without the slashes if the file is meant for giving to other people. See http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_opening_and_saving_files.html#extensions .
Gale