can't export files any longer with name of song

Kathleen-OBrien wrote on 1/2/2022, 7:37 PM

i am trying to export recorded files into a folder with the name of the song recorded (input by labeling each song in the program) followed by .mp3. Such as Stardust.mp3 but I can not get the program to do that any longer. Help is of no use. Screenshots below.. This used to work, Installed windows 11 would that make a difference

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johnebaker wrote on 1/3/2022, 6:52 AM

@Kathleen-OBrien

From the image you have posted you have 2 illegal characters in the filename - ie the comma and Ampersand (&).

While these are legal characters in Unix/MAC OS based systems, and the files can imported into windows systems maintaining the original names, they are not allowed in Windows.

If you use A-Z, a - z, 0 - 9, underscore _, and hyphen - you should have no issues with filenames - spaces are allowed however they should be avoided and replaced with the underscore or hyphen.

In addition the total number of characters, including spaces, for the default filepath - filename length is limited to 256 characters by default in Windows.

John EB
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Kathleen-OBrien wrote on 1/3/2022, 4:06 PM

I don't know what to put in the filename field I just pointed to a directory. What should go in that field? I have 50 files to write to that directory? Thanks

johnebaker wrote on 1/4/2022, 7:02 AM

@Kathleen-OBrien

. . . . I don't know what to put in the filename field I just pointed to a directory. . . . .

You can name the files anything you like so long as they use legal characters - I would suggest you use the musics real names as you can see in the Title column of the export dialog.

John EB