Cakewalk Sonar free adding underscore to wav file name

[pingcat]

I'm trying out the new cakewalk sonar free tier. 

When I export to a wav file, and then attempt to run mp3tag against that wav file, mp3tag says it can't access the file. 

The wav file plays with no problems. 

And so I switched back to the final version of cakewalk by bandlab, loaded the same project, and exported using the same settings. Then mp3tag works against the wav file. 

Switching back to cakewalk sonar free, export the wav again and mp3tag fails again. 

Anyone else have this issue?

Edited 11 hours ago by pingcat
Discovered mp3tag is not related to the problem

[OutrageProductions]

Have you tried to completely quit the DAW before editing the metadata header of the wave file, or is it still running in the background? 

CW/Sonar have always had a tendency to hold flags on files & folders of a project even after they are closed in the DAW, and only releases the most recent after the entire application is shut down. 

My other DAWs don't have this issue.

[pingcat]

It is working now. For some reason something is adding an underscore to the end of the file name. So I have mp3tag looking for the file name without the underscore, and of course it fails  

I will experiment to see where the underscore is coming from. 

[pingcat]

Yeah, I have fully shut down cakewalk sonar free, and even restarted my laptop.  But export still results in my specified file having an underscore added. And if I then load the same project into Cakewalk by Bandlab, the exported file name is correct, with no underscore. 

Anyone know why the new cakewalk sonar could be adding an underscore (apparently just for me)? Or could it be OS related?  I am using windows 11 home edition. 

Searches for "underscore" turned up only one reference, it is on this forum. But there is no solution. 

[Colin Nicholls]

Is it adding an underscore even when you provide an override to the preset name template in the Export Audio dialog?

In other words, how exactly are you doing this?

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When I export to a wav file,

 

[pingcat]

I select Export, and then Advanced.

That brings up the Export Audio dialog. 

Under FILENAME I select the 3 dots (Choose Export Filename).

Then I select the wav file on my drive (a previously saved file).  The filename has no underscore. 

And the filename now showing on the dialog has no underscore. 

I select Export and say OK to overwrite the existing file. And it starts mixing down audio. 

Once completed,  the file on my drive has an underscore just before the .wav and the original correctly named file is gone. 

I rename the file by removing the underscore and continue onward. 

This doesn't happen using the Cakewalk by Bandlab daw.

[Colin Nicholls]

1 hour ago, pingcat said:

I select Export, and then Advanced.

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Once completed,  the file on my drive has an underscore just before the .wav and the original correctly named file is gone. 

Thanks for writing out those instructions.

I followed them as exactly as I could, and - you guessed it - could not reproduce the issue. 

IN my case, I copied a random .wav file into D:\TEMP\ and used that in the filename picker dialog. I can confirm it overwrote the existing file  with the new export, and didn't append an underscore.

If you enter a filename that doesn't already exist on disk; export to it; then re-export picking the existing file, does the behavior still happen?