[Flac-dev] wav to flac corruption

[Josh Coalson]

--- Justin Waddell <jwaddell at gmail.com> 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.

this is probably the problem:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=57572&st=40&p=518661&#entry518661




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