[winXP SP3] Cannot export audio as .flac

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[winXP SP3] Cannot export audio as .flac

Post by improbabilitist » Sun Nov 01, 2009 12:38 pm

Hi everyone, I'm having some problems exporting audio as .flac.
I'm using 1.2.6 rev 2 (portable edition).

The file is being created, only it has 0 bytes size.
I can however save the file as an .aup project and extract audio as .mp3 (with the right codec).

See attachment for the error.
Thanks in advance :)
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Re: [winXP SP3] Cannot export audio as .flac

Post by steve » Sun Nov 01, 2009 3:23 pm

Try exporting with a file name that only contains the following characters:
a-z A-Z 0-1 underscore hyphen space

do not use:
. ( ) / or other special characters.
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Re: [winXP SP3] Cannot export audio as .flac

Post by improbabilitist » Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:57 pm

Thanks for your reply,

You mean like this?
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Re: [winXP SP3] Cannot export audio as .flac

Post by steve » Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:34 am

Yes, that's a much nicer file name :D

What about the "path".
Do you have write permissions for D:Mon DocumentosMy Music_recz
Is there enough space on that drive?

Where did you get the "1.2.6 rev 2 (portable edition)" version of Audacity from?
If it's the one that has been packaged by PortableApps you may be better asking them for support as I doubt that anyone here knows in detail what modifications they have made. Alternatively, you could try the portable version of Audacity that we can support.

The current, normal release version of Audacity 1.3 is portable. You just need to get the Zip version of it, extract the zip file wherever you want it, and create a new folder in the same folder as the .exe file and name it "Portable Settings" (without quotes). I use this all the time as most of the computers at work do not have Audacity installed.
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Re: [winXP SP3] Cannot export audio as .flac

Post by improbabilitist » Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:22 pm

Well 1.3.9 solved the problem for me :)
I got my version from portableapps website, but I think I'll just do with this one.

Thanks a lot!

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