Spaces on input filename or path causes no output

[Don1948]

Any spaces in the filename or its path will produce no output. Can this be fixed?

[chrisn]

Is there any error reported? If the filename has spaces, you can put the file name in quotes. For example, on Windows:

audiowaveform -i "test file.mp3" -o "test file.png"

[Don1948]

Chrisn.

Putting the file name in quotes is the first thing I did and it did not work. Shell "audiowaveform1 -i "Track -1.mp3" -o Track-1.dat" Shell "audiowaveform1 -i " & "Track -1.mp3" & " -o Track-1.dat"

But I tried this and it did work: Shell "audiowaveform1 -i ""Track -1.mp3"" -o Track-1.dat"

Thank you for your help and prompt answer.

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Is there any error reported? If the filename has spaces, you can put the file name in quotes. For example, on Windows:

audiowaveform -i "test file.mp3" -o "test file.png"

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[chrisn]

It works fine if you type on the command line., so the problem must lie elsewhere. I don't recognise "Shell ..." so I don't know which tool you're using. The only thing I can see from the examples is that you have nested quotes, so I'd check how these are handled.