Error opening project

[Soundman010]

Hey there ! I have a project that won't open. When I try the following message pops up:

Error: reference to invalid character number at line 13.

Help !! :p

Thanx !

[billw58]

Hello again!

Open the .aup file in TextEdit. Look for the section between <tags> and </tags>. It will look something like this:

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   <tags>
		<tag name="id3v2" value="1"/>
		<tag name="GENRE" value="Country"/>
		<tag name="ARTIST" value="Name of Artist"/>
		<tag name="TRACKNUMBER" value="12/14"/>
		<tag name="TITLE" value="Song Title"/>
		<tag name="YEAR" value="2008"/>
		<tag name="Encoded by" value="iTunes v7.6.2"/>
		<tag name="ALBUM" value="Name of Album"/>
		<tag name="COMMENTS" value="some kind of comment"/>
	</tags>

Somewhere in there is an "illegal" character. It will probably start with "#". Edit out anything that doesn't make sense, save without changing the extension, and all should be OK.

I believe this bug has been fixed in 1.3.12.

-- Bill

[Soundman010]

It worked !! Thx a lot !!

You don't wanna start over when you are almost done

[Kal]

...snip

I believe this bug has been fixed in 1.3.12.

-- Bill

I am running 1.3.12 and I still get the same error. Fortunately editing out the invalid characters does work and allows me to open the project.

Kal

[steve]

I am running 1.3.12 and I still get the same error. Fortunately editing out the invalid characters does work and allows me to open the project.

As a matter of interest, what was the invalid character, and where was it? Was it in a file name or in part of the metadata (id3 tag)?

[laiia]

I'm having the same problem... on line 6!!

Could somebody help me find the odd character?

laiia

[steve]

I'm having the same problem... on line 6!!

Could you upload the .AUP file as an attachment to the forum.
You may need to change the file extension to .txt for the forum software to allow it. (Upload tab / button is below the message compose box)

[laiia]

Will be my pleasure!


<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?>
<!DOCTYPE project PUBLIC "-//audacityproject-1.3.0//DTD//EN" "http://audacityteam.org/xml/audacityproject-1.3.0.dtd" >
<project xmlns="http://audacityteam.org/xml/" projname="sommetdemishow_data" version="1.3.0" audacityversion="1.3.12-beta" sel0="137.0416300429" sel1="137.0416300429" vpos="1776" h="132.9018665884" zoom="58.2158866434" rate="22050">
<tags>
<tag name="id3v2" value="1"/>
<tag name="Full Name" value="Piste 05&#x0002;"/>
<tag name="ALBUM" value="Cheer2011&#x001c;7&#x001b;"/>
</tags>
<wavetrack name="12 Piste 12 1" channel="0" linked="1" mute="0" solo="0" height="150" minimized="0" rate="44100" gain="1" pan="0">
<waveclip offset="60.39750567">
<sequence maxsamples="524288" sampleformat="131073" numsamples="553874">
<waveblock start="0">
<simpleblockfile filename="e000048a.au" len="276937" min="-0.990906" max="0.976593" rms="0.256986"/>
</waveblock>
<waveblock start="276937">
<simpleblockfile filename="e0000db4.au" len="276937" min="-0.990875" max="0.992371" rms="0.268627"/>
</waveblock>
</sequence>
<envelope numpoints="0"/>
</waveclip>
</wavetrack>
<wavetrack name="12 Piste 12" channel="1" linked="0" mute="0" solo="0" height="150" minimized="0" rate="44100" gain="1" pan="0">
<waveclip offset="60.39750567">
<sequence maxsamples="524288" sampleformat="131073" numsamples="553874">
<waveblock start="0">
<simpleblockfile filename="e000053c.au" len="276937" min="-0.981232" max="0.994904" rms="0.260158"/>
</waveblock>
<waveblock start="276937">
<simpleblockfile filename="e0000e9b.au" len="276937" min="-0.983917" max="0.986298" rms="0.273285"/>
</waveblock>
</sequence>
<envelope numpoints="0"/>
</waveclip>

do you need the rest??
laiia

[bgravato]

<tag name="Full Name" value="Piste 05&#x0002;"/>
<tag name="ALBUM" value="Cheer2011&#x001c;7&#x001b;"/>

These are probably the lines that will cause you trouble...
Make a copy of the .aup file.
Open the .aup file in a text editor.
Remove characters such as '&' and '#'.
Save the file with the same extension (.aup).

[laiia]

thank you very much!! it worked really well!
laiia