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Error: Reference to invalid character number at line 5
Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 7:44 pm
by tavonjackson
i saved my project as aup. then closed out of audacity but i tried to open it back up cause i wanted to change something and this error pops up? i dont know if its cause i put [ ] in the title of the project or if its something else. i already tried changing the name of the file and it didnt help, Any suggestions? i realllllly want this song back
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Re: Error: Reference to invalid character number at line 5
Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2017 11:58 am
by Gale Andrews
Please attach the AUP file so we can see it. Please see
how to attach files to forum posts.
Gale
Re: Error: Reference to invalid character number at line 5
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 7:33 pm
by tavonjackson
my bad i didnt know you could post it. Heres the file im talking about
Re: Error: Reference to invalid character number at line 5
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 11:41 am
by Gale Andrews
tavonjackson wrote:my bad i didnt know you could post it. Heres the file im talking about
Thanks. Try the attached. I removed �� (
SMILING FACE WITH SUNGLASSES) and the other Unicode characters or emoji in the metadata. Audacity doesn't support these on Windows at present so you will have to do without them.
Gale
Re: Error: Reference to invalid character number at line 5
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 8:55 pm
by tavonjackson
Gale Andrews wrote:tavonjackson wrote:my bad i didnt know you could post it. Heres the file im talking about
Thanks. Try the attached. I removed �� (
SMILING FACE WITH SUNGLASSES) and the other Unicode characters or emoji in the metadata. Audacity doesn't support these on Windows at present so you will have to do without them.
Gale
youre a life saver! howd you access the metadata? just incase this issue comes up again
Re: Error: Reference to invalid character number at line 5
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2017 12:32 am
by Gale Andrews
tavonjackson wrote:howd you access the metadata? just incase this issue comes up again
I opened the AUP file in
Notepad++, making sure that View > Word Wrap was off so I was looking at the line number indicated in the error. The metadata entries start with
Notepad is less safe to use. Unless you are careful to remove all Unicode characters, including those Audacity can handle OK, Notepad will save as UTF-8 with "BOM" as it's known, and then you have to use Notepad++ to convert it to back to UTF-8 without BOM so Audacity can open it.
Gale