diff --git a/src/gui/seqmanager/SequenceManager.cpp b/src/gui/seqmanager/SequenceManager.cpp
index 100916264..7bf9134d7 100644
--- a/src/gui/seqmanager/SequenceManager.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/seqmanager/SequenceManager.cpp
@@ -1899,7 +1899,7 @@ SequenceManager::setExportWavFile(const QString& fileName)
     }
     m_wavExporter = new WAVExporter(fileName);
     // If creation of the WAVExporter has failed, bail.
-    if (m_wavExporter->isComplete())
+    if (!m_wavExporter->isOK())
         return;
 
     // and install in the driver
diff --git a/src/sound/WAVExporter.h b/src/sound/WAVExporter.h
index 471da967d..85802cdf1 100644
--- a/src/sound/WAVExporter.h
+++ b/src/sound/WAVExporter.h
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ class WAVExporter
 {
 public:
     explicit WAVExporter(const QString& fileName);
+    /*
+     * Call this after the ctor to determine whether the file was
+     * successfully created.
+     */
+    bool isOK() const  { return static_cast<bool>(m_audioWriteStream); }
 
     /// called by the audio thread on start playback
     void start();
@@ -54,12 +59,6 @@ class WAVExporter
     /// Export is complete, or this object is not OK.
     /**
      * Called by the gui thread to request completion status.
-     *
-     * ??? update() could return a bool and then this could be changed to
-     *     an isOK() that checks m_audioWriteStream.
-     *
-     * Call this after the ctor to determine whether the file was
-     * successfully created.  true means failure.
      */
     bool isComplete() const;