Recording unable to start on Windows due to invalid characters in file name.

[RJ Skerry-Ryan]

From DJTT forums, Windows Vista running Mixxx as administrator appears to have issues beginning recording. According to the reporter, the Mixxx/Recordings folder exists.

[ԜаӀtеr Ⅼарсһуnѕkі (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).

Regardless of whether or not recordings directory existed either in the install directory [%PROGRAMFILES%\Mixxx\Recordings] or in the library directory [%USERPROFILE%\Music\Mixxx\Recordings aka Libraries\Music\Mixxx\Recordings].

The only thing logged is:
Debug: [EngineSideChain 1]: Setting record flag to: OFF

The error dialog sez:
Could not create audio file for recording!
Maybe you do not have enough free disk space or file permissions.

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (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

[isaac m (imcbride)]

Downloaded and performed install after uninstalling previous mixxx versions. Still recieve same error message. Running windows 7.

[isaac m (imcbride)]

I spoke too soon. Running program as administrator solves problem. My apologies.

[Andreas Kühntopf (andreas-kuehntopf)]

I have this problem as well.. Any fix yet?

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

Andreas, are you using 1.10.0 beta or 1.10.0 final? This should be fixed in
1.10.0 final.

Is your system in a foreign language? Could you tell me the path to the
Mixxx recordings folder? (e.g. ~/Music/Mixxx/Recordings) Do you have any
accented/special characters in the directory names? (e.g. "Mi Música")

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Andreas Kühntopf <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> I have this problem as well.. Any fix yet?
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[strid3r (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.

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (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.

[Swiftb0y (swiftb0y)]

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/6100