Error exporting WAV

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stroberts3
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Error exporting WAV

Post by stroberts3 » Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:15 pm

I am trying to export a 3-minute Audacity file as a WAV, which I have done hundreds of times successfully. Recently an "Edit Metadata" window comes up, with some fields blank and some pre-filled. When I hit "OK" I get an error message saying:

"Error while writing WAV (Microsoft) file (disk full?). Libsndfile says ", 0sA (other garbage characters here)".

There is plenty of available disk space on the server where I work, so the disk is not full. On the Edit Metadata window, if I hit "Clear" and then "OK" it works. But it creates a WAV file that is 10 times the size of what I normally create (36,000K instead of 3,500K) which is not a workable solution. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help.
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Re: Error exporting WAV

Post by steve » Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:43 pm

stroberts3 wrote: "Error while writing WAV (Microsoft) file (disk full?). Libsndfile says ", 0sA (other garbage characters here)".
There are some invalid (garbage) characters in the metadata.
Click the "Clear" button in the Metadata Editor, then continue with the export.
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