I have been trying to export multiple clips from Audacity. It's fine if I try things like MP2. But what I really want is to export in either WAV or AIF format.
When using Audacity 1.3.6 I get error messages when trying to import both WAV and AIF exports into Peak (or even Audacity!).
When using Audacity 1.3.7 I get error messages for when trying to import WAV exports into Peak or another audio editor. Exported AIFs
seem to be fine.
Both AIF and WAV export work just fine if I export the whole file instead of the label regions.
The specific message I get is: Macintosh Error -39. End-of-file. Unable to complete requested action. Reading Redbook file.
Is there a fix or workaround for this? Does this same behavior show up in the 1.3.6 and 1.3.7 Windows versions?
If there's not a current workaround, will this be fixed soon?
export multiple and error message
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Re: export multiple and error message
You can get selective insanity like that if you try to use punctuation marks in your filenames. Only two punctuation marks allowed, the underscore and the dash. Everything else is forbidden. I don't use spaces, either.
Monday/Tuesday's Recordings.wav is completely forbidden. Monday-Tuesday_Recordings.wav is OK.
Koz
Monday/Tuesday's Recordings.wav is completely forbidden. Monday-Tuesday_Recordings.wav is OK.
Koz
Re: export multiple and error message
Koz,
Thanks for your reply. No punctuation marks were used in the naming of the label tracks however.
Most of the time I can get the multiple exports to be read by other applications, but sometimes not. It's strange. At any rate, I'll be super careful about the punctuation mark issue when doing future naming.
Thanks for your reply. No punctuation marks were used in the naming of the label tracks however.
Most of the time I can get the multiple exports to be read by other applications, but sometimes not. It's strange. At any rate, I'll be super careful about the punctuation mark issue when doing future naming.
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Re: export multiple and error message
<<<Reading Redbook file.>>>
Where did the music come from? That's a Music CD show, isn't it?
There's a setting in iTunes Import Preferences that lets you convert Music CD shows to Something Else. That Something Else should be AIFF, 44100, 16 bit. Try that with a fresh CD and I bet a lot of these magic problems go away.
You can't just pull music from a CD without some sort of processing. CD music is a close cousin to WAV and AIFF called CDA. It's not perfect and if you use a CDA assuming it's one of the other two, you can run into problems.
You can't use iTunes Purchased music at all. Those songs are intentionally damaged to prevent copying beyond what you're license covers.
Koz
Where did the music come from? That's a Music CD show, isn't it?
There's a setting in iTunes Import Preferences that lets you convert Music CD shows to Something Else. That Something Else should be AIFF, 44100, 16 bit. Try that with a fresh CD and I bet a lot of these magic problems go away.
You can't just pull music from a CD without some sort of processing. CD music is a close cousin to WAV and AIFF called CDA. It's not perfect and if you use a CDA assuming it's one of the other two, you can run into problems.
You can't use iTunes Purchased music at all. Those songs are intentionally damaged to prevent copying beyond what you're license covers.
Koz
Re: export multiple and error message
Koz: Here's the really weird thing: No it was NOT music. It was simply audio I had recorded (spoken voice). Brought into Audacity. Edited. Added label regions, then wanted to export multiple. Very simple. So I have no idea what all the Redbook stuff means or why it appeared. Seemed very weird to me.
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Re: export multiple and error message
Have you ever had a computer that was possessed? I don't mean by you, I mean by that tall guy with the smoke around him behind you.
What caught my eye in your information was the Red Book thing. Red Book Compact Disk is the long name of a music CD.
You have Computer Insanity because nothing you do seems to make any sense, so lets take some basics.
Go > Computer > Select your System Drive > Apple-I Info. You should have at least 10% free space on your drive.
Do not use punctuation marks in a file or folder name. Ever. Letters (upper and lower), numbers, underscore, and dash are the only safe characters in a file name. I never put spaces in either (I work in a place where computers around the world, literally, have to talk to each other, and some don't like spaces).
Have you ever done a Disk Verify or Permissions Repair?
Koz
What caught my eye in your information was the Red Book thing. Red Book Compact Disk is the long name of a music CD.
You have Computer Insanity because nothing you do seems to make any sense, so lets take some basics.
Go > Computer > Select your System Drive > Apple-I Info. You should have at least 10% free space on your drive.
Do not use punctuation marks in a file or folder name. Ever. Letters (upper and lower), numbers, underscore, and dash are the only safe characters in a file name. I never put spaces in either (I work in a place where computers around the world, literally, have to talk to each other, and some don't like spaces).
Have you ever done a Disk Verify or Permissions Repair?
Koz