[Flac-dev] wav to flac corruption

[Ben Allison]

Winamp supports 24bit FLAC files just fine.  Make sure you are using the 
plugin that ships with the latest versions of Winamp, and not the one 
distributed with the FLAC tools.

Justin Waddell wrote:
> I have exactly the same problem.
> 
> I encoded a BWF file to flac and then then decoded back to wav, using
> --keep-foreign-metadata, and I ended up with a bit-perfect copy of the
> original BWF. So I was fairly confident that the flac encoding is
> working correctly, the problem definitely appears to be with the flac
> players.
> 
> Unfortunately it seems that the majority of flac players cannot play
> 24bit files - winamp, windows media player (with flac plugin), vlc,
> amarok, kaffeine and a few others ALL failed to play the file. I would
> either get silence, static, or a complete refusal to play the file.
> The only player that played it successfully was Foobar 2000 on
> Windows.
> 
> More seriously from my point of view is the Java flac plugin also
> fails, which has major repercussions for the project I work on (the
> National Archives of Australia Xena project -
> http://xena.sourceforge.net).
> 
> I don't know how much the flac developers have to do with the player
> implementations, but this does seem to be a major problem across
> almost the full board of flac players.