Audacity quits when trying to import mp3 files

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Re: Audacity quits when trying to import mp3 files

Post by Gale Andrews » Sat Jul 27, 2013 9:28 pm

squast wrote:This morning I found a copy of 1.3.9 to download. Running as smoothly as you could want. I have coded 50+ songs with no issues.
Thanks, squast.

It's really unfortunate if you have to use that old version.

Do the names of your imported files have non-English characters, or do the names of the folder they are in have such characters ?

At the moment I think 1.3.11 has the crash problem, but I am not sure about 1.3.10. I have 1.3.10 but Audacity 2.0.4 is not crashing for me at the moment even if import a file with a Chinese name.

If you go back to 2.0.3 and it starts crashing, feel free to see if 1.3.10 crashes http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/au ... 1.3.10.zip .

It would certainly help if we could find out in what version the crashes started happening. If you see "textension" in the crashed thread in the report, the crash is due to this Unicode problem.


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Re: Audacity quits when trying to import mp3 files

Post by squast » Sun Jul 28, 2013 7:08 pm

I may have a couple of songs titles with an umlaut in the artist name (Queensryche or Motley Crue) but I thought I cleaned all of those up.

I am transferring files from my Mac onto an SD chip for our car stereo. The SD format is FAT 32 for Windows-based software in our VW. I noticed when an AC/DC title comes on the screen the slash shows as a box since Windows files can't have a / in them. Might that be the problem? Ironically, none of the AC/DC files I worked on crashed Audacity.
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Re: Audacity quits when trying to import mp3 files

Post by Gale Andrews » Sun Jul 28, 2013 8:32 pm

squast wrote:I may have a couple of songs titles with an umlaut in the artist name (Queensryche or Motley Crue) but I thought I cleaned all of those up.

I am transferring files from my Mac onto an SD chip for our car stereo. The SD format is FAT 32 for Windows-based software in our VW. I noticed when an AC/DC title comes on the screen the slash shows as a box since Windows files can't have a / in them. Might that be the problem? Ironically, none of the AC/DC files I worked on crashed Audacity.
Thanks, no - a forward or backward slash should not be a problem on Mac. The colon is the only disallowed character there. Forward and backward slashes are original ASCII characters .


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Re: Audacity quits when trying to import mp3 files

Post by squast » Wed Jul 31, 2013 12:09 am

400+ files opened/edited using v 1.3.9 and still no issues
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Re: Audacity quits when trying to import mp3 files

Post by Gale Andrews » Wed Jul 31, 2013 12:13 am

squast wrote:400+ files opened/edited using v 1.3.9 and still no issues
Thanks. Do you feel like trying 1.3.10 for us http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/au ... 1.3.10.zip ?


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Re: Audacity quits when trying to import mp3 files

Post by squast » Thu Aug 01, 2013 7:24 pm

Sure. Just downloaded it. Will work with it and report back.
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Re: Audacity quits when trying to import mp3 files

Post by squast » Thu Aug 01, 2013 10:32 pm

100+ files today with v 1.3.10 and no issues.
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Re: Audacity quits when trying to import mp3 files

Post by Gale Andrews » Fri Aug 02, 2013 3:18 pm

squast wrote:100+ files today with v 1.3.10 and no issues.
Thanks. I've found using 1.3.10 stopped the crashes happening too.

Can we tempt you with 1.3.11 http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/au ... 1.3.11.zip ?
I've been told that 1.3.11 suffers from this textension problem. If you try 1.3.11 and it crashes, please post the crash report.


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Re: Audacity quits when trying to import mp3 files

Post by squast » Fri Aug 02, 2013 9:10 pm

OK, I'm game. Just downloaded it and will give it a whirl.
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Re: Audacity quits when trying to import mp3 files

Post by squast » Sat Aug 03, 2013 12:29 am

Version 1.3.11 working just fine.
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