[Flac-dev] Re: #130041: xmms-flac: breaks periodically

[Matt Zimmerman]

retitle 130041 Plugin crashes when loading invalid FLAC files
thanks

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 05:06:29PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote:

> This is still a bug in the Flac decoder plugin.  Under Windows, the error
> is something about stream decoder and "%d".  This should be a pretty
> simple thing to fix - just run a basic check of the file to see if it
> looks anything like a flac file, and then hand it off to the decoder.

Or even better, fix the decoder not to blow up when passed invalid data.

> It's interesting that the playlist's time calculation didn't crash the
> plugin.  It just skipped over the invalid (empty, 0-size, plus ID3 tags)
> files in the calculation, leaving the field blank.  Playing them crashes
> the flac plugin.

Great, I'm glad that the mystery is cleared up.

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 - mdz