Unable to Export

[drumphil2]

For some reason Aucacity decides not to let me export certain files. When I try export or export selection I get a pop up that says "error while writing WAV (microsoft)file (disc full?). Libsndfile says." Any idea what to do about this?

[kozikowski]

Your hard drive is filling up.
You put slash marks or other punctuation in the file name.
You put bad characters in the metadata info panel.

Make sure you have enough hard drive space for your work. People who record 12-hours of surveillance run into this.

Only use accepted characters in filenames and metadata panels. Upper and lower case letters, numbers, dash and underscore. That's it. Those are the only unquestioned safe characters.

Do Not include dates in your filenames.
Use 20120208, not 2/8/12.

Koz

[Gale Andrews]

For some reason Aucacity decides not to let me export certain files. When I try export or export selection I get a pop up that says "error while writing WAV (microsoft)file (disc full?). Libsndfile says." Any idea what to do about this?

"Libsndfile says..." denotes that It's a known issue - please see the 1.3.14 Release Notes (towards the bottom of this section):
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Relea ... _Exports_2

It happens due to non-standard layout of the metadata in the file that you imported ("metadata" is the embedded information like artist and genre). The WAV or AIFF exporter (libsndfile) cannot read the metadata properly so gives the error.

Workaround: Click File > Open Metadata Editor, press "Clear" to empty the metadata, then export.


Gale

[patfran3]

Thanks gale!! that did it!