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[Liu Anshan]

Hi, i found this today and when i tried to run it i get this

java.lang.RuntimeException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0xffff) was found in the element content of the document.
   at pulptunes.xml.ITunesMusicDatabaseConfigurer.configure(ITunesMusicDatabaseConfigurer.java:60)
   at pulptunes.PulpTunesApp.initializeMusicDatabase(PulpTunesApp.java:214)
   at pulptunes.PulpTunesApp.main(PulpTunesApp.java:413)
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0xffff) was found in the element content of the document.
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
   at pulptunes.xml.ITunesMusicDatabaseConfigurer.configure(ITunesMusicDatabaseConfigurer.java:47)
   ... 2 more

i'm not sure what i need to do to make it work

-L

[alpeb]

Hmm I've never seen that before. Would you send me a zip of your itunes xml file to alpeb@pulptunes.com?

Thanks,
Alejandro

[Liu Anshan]

Sure thing, i'll sent it in a minute

[alpeb]

You have a song called something like "Gettysburg" from the artist Ratatat and album Ratata. Open iTunes, right click on that song, select Get Info, tab info. There are some invalid characters in this song's name, album and genre. Erase those fields and enter them again. Close iTunes and restart pulpTunes. If that doesn't do the trick, please send me the new xml file after this change, as there might be other problems with other songs.

Cheers

[Liu Anshan]

That did the trick.  Thank's for your awesome help, i'm looking forward to using this.

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-L

[Paul]

I get this error as well. I'm sure it's not just one song causing the issue though. I have almost 43,000 songs in my library so it's doubtful just one song is screwed up. What is the fastest way I could search and fix these issues?


Thanks In Advance!

[Paul]

I get this error as well. I'm sure it's not just one song causing the issue though. I have almost 43,000 songs in my library so it's doubtful just one song is screwed up. What is the fastest way I could search and fix these issues?


Thanks In Advance!

Here is the actual error:
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.XMLStringBuffer.append(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.refresh(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.invokeListeners(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.arrangeCapacity(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.skipString(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
   at pulptunes.xml.ITunesMusicDatabaseConfigurer.configure(ITunesMusicDatabaseConfigurer.java:47)
   at pulptunes.PulpTunesApp.initializeMusicDatabase(PulpTunesApp.java:214)
   at pulptunes.PulpTunesApp.main(PulpTunesApp.java:413)

[alpeb]

Ok, that's a different error, caused by very large libraries like yours. Let me know what OS you're in to give you the instructions on how to fix this.

[mrcleanstl]

I have approximately 54,000 songs and I'm also having the same java.lang.OutofMemoryError.

Can you post the instructions to correct?

[mrcleanstl]

O/S is Windows Vista.

[alpeb]

You need to edit a configuration setting to allow for pulpTunes to consume more memory:

Go to the directory where pulpTunes is installed. In XP, this is "C:\Program Files\pulpTunes". I'm not sure if it's the same in Vista. Then open the pulpTunes.ini file with your favorite plain text editor (e.g. Notepad but not Word).

The directive that sets up the maximum memory pulpTunes is allowed to consume is:

Virtual Machine Parameters=-Xmx200M

This means that by default it can only consume a maximum of 200 Megs. Try with higher values until it works for you. You need to restart pulpTunes every time you change this config.

Cheers

[mrcleanstl]

Thank you...

Changing Virtual Machine Parameters=-Xmx200M to Virtual Machine Parameters=-Xmx600M did the trick.

Nice!!

[Dustin]

Thanks that helped very much!

[joe]

Here the one I get:
java.lang.RuntimeException: com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.MalformedByteSequenceException: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
   at pulptunes.xml.ITunesMusicDatabaseConfigurer.configure(ITunesMusicDatabaseConfigurer.java:60)
   at pulptunes.PulpTunesApp.initializeMusicDatabase(PulpTunesApp.java:214)
   at pulptunes.PulpTunesApp.main(PulpTunesApp.java:413)
Caused by: com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.MalformedByteSequenceException: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.UTF8Reader.invalidByte(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.UTF8Reader.read(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.load(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.skipChar(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
   at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
   at pulptunes.xml.ITunesMusicDatabaseConfigurer.configure(ITunesMusicDatabaseConfigurer.java:47)
   ... 2 more

[alpeb]

Please make sure the appropriate iTunes XML music library file is being used. You can check the file path in the settings section. If that looks ok, would you send me that file to alpeb at pulptunes.com so I can check it out?

Cheers