Hey community. First, thank you for making such an incredible open-source piece of software. I have absolutely loved working with Audacity this week. I’m under the weight of a massive project for my church and have run into this problem when trying to re-open two of my project scenes.
Error: reference to invalid character number at line…
I’ve tried reading through the forums to understand the issue. It seems to be common, but at different line numbers. Just not sure how to remedy it!
Here are some details;
Version: 2.1.3
Windows 10 x64
Working with WAV & MP3 files. Mostly recordings that I’ve created myself. A few free sound effects pulled from YouTube; thunder, earthquakes, etc.
I’ve uploaded the two .AUP file that I’m having trouble opening. I don’t seem to have problems opening any of my other project files, there being 20 in total.
Reenactment 11B.AUP has this error; Error: reference to invalid character number at line 587
Reenactment 19.AUP has this error; Error: reference to invalid character number at line 2489 Reenactment 19.aup (179 KB) Reenactment 11B.aup (38.4 KB)
An Audacity project is a barrel of loose sound snippets and fragments (_DATA folder) and the AUP file which has the programming to put it all together into a show. The AUP file is the Project blueprint.
Somehow, 587 of the first AUP file, there is an error.
(Typical AUP file)
I don’t have an easy way to scroll down numbered lines, but one of the other elves may.
While we’re waiting for the sun to come up in Manchester, you should open all your works one at a time and Export them (assuming mono or stereo) as WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit protection files. If they’re multi-track, three or more blue waves, then you’re stuck with the Projects.
I think you mean line 567:
There’s also another occurrence of the same thing at line 675.
In this version I’ve deleted those weird character, so this should work if you put it with its _data folder: Reenactment 11B.aup (38.3 KB)
To correct the other AUP file, open it in a good text editor (I’d recommend Notepad++, scroll down to line 2489, and change the line that starts with
Thank you for looking into this!! I didn’t receive an email notification that anyone had replied, so I had abandoned all hope until now. I’ll take a look and see if I have any success with things again.
