New issue
Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.
By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.
Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account
Recording unable to start on Windows due to invalid characters in file name. #6100
Comments
Commented by: wxl Using 64 bit Windows 7 version (a la VirtualBox) was not able to record, either. Didn't bother with x86 version. Not with admin or standard account. Not with any file type (though didn't bother to install LAME so MP3 remains untested).
The error dialog sez: |
Commented by: rryan Mystery solved by Turic in the Mixxx forums. The problem is the filename formatting introduced in Bug #878153 includes colons which are invalid filename characters on Windows. http://mixxx.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3049&p=11550#p11550 |
Commented by: imcbride Downloaded and performed install after uninstalling previous mixxx versions. Still recieve same error message. Running windows 7. |
Commented by: imcbride I spoke too soon. Running program as administrator solves problem. My apologies. |
Commented by: andreas-kuehntopf I have this problem as well.. Any fix yet? |
Commented by: rryan Andreas, are you using 1.10.0 beta or 1.10.0 final? This should be fixed in Is your system in a foreign language? Could you tell me the path to the
|
Commented by: strider34 I am having the same trouble in Ubuntu 12.04. I am trying to record to an NTFS drive and there are colon characters in the filename. Is there a patch or a fix to remove colon characters or choose filename format before recording? I'm using 1.110 beta btw, but it doesn't work in standard release either. |
Commented by: rryan Thanks for pointing out that corner case strid3r. I've removed colons from our filenames on all platforms to cover the case where you have mounted an NTFS volume from Linux. |
Issue closed with status Fix Released. |
Reported by: rryan
Date: 2011-11-10T22:03:55Z
Status: Fix Released
Importance: High
Launchpad Issue: lp888774
From DJTT forums, Windows Vista running Mixxx as administrator appears to have issues beginning recording. According to the reporter, the Mixxx/Recordings folder exists.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: