Error while writting....

[rivin2e]

I know others have had this problem, ive googled, and i re installed everything. Nothing has changed yet, seeing if someone knows out there.

When exporting to a 16-bit wav at 44.1k (untested at any other so far) from a 192kbps mp3 (ripped off a youtube video from video2mp3.net)

Anyways, i get an error message. "Error while writing WAV (Microsfot) file (disk full?). - Libsndfile says "L""

Sometimes the 'L' will be random characters or just... gibberish.

Troubleshooting so far -------

Reinstalled Audacity and its media libraries (Lame 3.98.3 & FFmpeg) - no change
run older version of audacity - no change
Tried other files that have worked in the past - no change
Tried to export other file types - success!

Log file -----

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20:58:00: Looking up PATH environment variable...
20:58:00: PATH = 'C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWindows Live;C:Program Files (x86)Common FilesMicrosoft SharedWindows Live;C:Windowssystem32;C:Windows;C:WindowsSystem32Wbem;C:WindowsSystem32WindowsPowerShellv1.0;C:Program Files (x86)ATI TechnologiesATI.ACECore-Static;C:Program Files (x86)Windows LiveShared'
20:58:00: Checking that 'C:Program Files (x86)FFmpeg for Audacity' is in PATH...
20:58:00: Warning: FFmpeg directory is not in PATH.
20:58:00: Temporarily appending ';C:Program Files (x86)FFmpeg for Audacity' to PATH...
20:58:00: Checking for monolithic avformat from 'C:Program Files (x86)FFmpeg for Audacityavformat-52.dll'.
20:58:00: Error: Couldn't find symbol 'avutil_version' in a dynamic library (error 127: the specified procedure could not be found.)
20:58:00: avformat not monolithic
20:58:00: Loading avutil from 'C:Program Files (x86)FFmpeg for Audacityavutil-50.dll'.
20:58:00: Loading avcodec from 'C:Program Files (x86)FFmpeg for Audacityavcodec-52.dll'.
20:58:00: Loading avformat from 'C:Program Files (x86)FFmpeg for Audacityavformat-52.dll'.
20:58:00: Returning PATH to previous setting...
20:58:00: Actual avutil path C:Program Files (x86)FFmpeg for Audacityavutil-50.dll
20:58:00: Actual avcodec path C:Program Files (x86)FFmpeg for Audacityavcodec-52.dll
20:58:00: Actual avformat path C:Program Files (x86)FFmpeg for Audacityavformat-52.dll
20:58:00: Importing symbols...
20:58:00: All symbols loaded successfully. Initializing the library.
20:58:00: Retrieving FFmpeg library version numbers:
20:58:00:    AVCodec version 0x344802 - 52.72.2 (built against 0x344802 - 52.72.2)
20:58:00:    AVFormat version 0x344002 - 52.64.2 (built against 0x344002 - 52.64.2)
20:58:00:    AVUtil version 0x320f01 - 50.15.1 (built against 0x320f01 - 50.15.1)
20:58:00: FFmpeg libraries loaded successfully.
20:58:06: File name is c:usersrivin2edownloadsyeeeeaaaah.mp3
20:58:06: Mime type is *
20:58:06: Opening with libmad
20:58:06: Open(c:usersrivin2edownloadsyeeeeaaaah.mp3) succeeded
21:05:07: Attempting to load LAME from previously defined path
21:05:07: Loading LAME from C:Program Files (x86)Lame For Audacitylame_enc.dll
21:05:07: Actual LAME path C:Program Files (x86)Lame For Audacitylame_enc.dll
21:05:07: LAME library successfully loaded
]

System running config ---

Gateway NV53A
AMD phenon 2 x3 n830
ATI mobility radeon hd 5650
4gb ddr3
320 gb hdd
windows 7 x64 home

Additional comment ----
I have be able to do this in the past as others have.
There is no rush to solve this problem for me, but it would be nice sooner rather then later
Only changed made to the computer itself that could have any effect (but doughtfull) would be the installation of, yes..., star trek online and upgrading java


Thank you in advance for any help, ill try to respond and do more trouble shooting

[steve]

The usual causes of this are either:
The disk that you are writing to is full, or you don't have permission to write there, or
The file name that you are using contains a "" or some other illegal character.

Where exactly are you writing to, and what is the exact file name that you are using?

[rivin2e]

Disk is not full and i have full permissions to everything on the computer

Trying to name the file "YEAAAAH"

I have tried writing this file to desktop, documents, music folder, usb

[steve]

That makes is one of the highly unusual cases.
Could check exporting in a couple of other formats and see what works and what doesn't.
Could you also try going to "Edit menu > Preferences > Quality" and set the high quality "dither" option to "none" (just to see if that makes any difference).
Also, open the "Metadata Editor" (File menu) and clear any metadata that may be in the project.
Finally, what's the exact version of Audacity you are using? (Help menu > About Audacity)

[rivin2e]

Done other formats as troubleshooting says. Everything but WAV files works
Dither is already set at none
Clearing Metadata - SUCCESS!


Clearing metadata resolved problem, with no error after error checking and finished testing

[steve]

Finally, what's the exact version of Audacity you are using? (Help menu > About Audacity)

The problem was caused by one or more illegal characters in the metadata, but I think that the latest version of Audacity (1.3.13) should be able to handle that problem. Could you check the exact version of Audacity that you are using and let us know if it is 1.3.13 or an earlier version. If it is an earlier version I would highly recommend that you update: http://audacityteam.org/download/