DESPERATE HELP NEEDED...Error

[krista156]

Hi there,
I just created a 27ish long something music file for a show.
I saved it and opened it today, no worries.
I saved it and opened it before and got this message "Error duplicate on line 12"
It looks like Audacity has made some other file and saved it to my desktop and when i open that one it saves it as "Error duplicate on line 9"

What to do, what to do?

Help would be much Appreciated.

[billw58]

The error is in line 12 (or line 9) of the .aup file, probably between the <tags> and </tags> markup. Open the .aup file in TextEdit. The start of the file will look something like this:

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<?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=" test tags_data" version="1.3.0" audacityversion="1.3.12-alpha-Feb 28 2010" sel0="0.0000000000" sel1="30.0000000000" vpos="0" h="0.0000000000" zoom="36.6000000000" rate="44100">
	<tags>
		<tag name="id3v2" value="1"/>
		<tag name="ALBUM" value="The Album Title"/>
		<tag name="TITLE" value="The Track Name"/>
		<tag name="TRACKNUMBER" value="1"/>
		<tag name="COMMENTS" value="This is the comment field"/>
		<tag name="ARTIST" value="The Artist Name"/>
		<tag name="YEAR" value="2010"/>
		<tag name="GENRE" value="Rock & Roll"/>
	</tags>

Make the window really wide so none of the lines wrap. You can attempt to find the offending line and delete it, but the easiest is probably to delete everything between and including "<tags>" and "</tags>". Given the error message - "duplicate at line x" - there is probably a duplicate ID3 tag line somewhere.

Save the file without changing the file extension, then open it in Audacity.

-- Bill

[steve]

Probably a good idea to make a backup copy of the AUP file first - just in case

[kozikowski]

And make sure it's a text editor and not a word processor. If it starts asking you for layout and font style, you may have the wrong thing. Even if you do get stuck in a word processor, many of them will allow you to save in Plain Text.

Mac TextEdit has two modes; Rich Text and Plain Text. Rich Text has a Styles selector on top and Plain Text doesn't.

Koz