[Flac-users] BIG Problem!!! Help please!

[David Mays]

Yeow! I have many files that have become unplayable. They are almost (but not always) the files of
an entire CD. The error I get is FLAC_STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_LOST_SYNC. They played until recently
using WinAmp and PhatNoise. They will not decode, returning a 0 error. I recently re-installed
Windoze (XP Pro) if this might be a cause, but many of the files I had before the reinstall still
do play. Thouroughly anti-vi'ed using Trend Micro's Housecall, no virus. 

If you know what might have caused this is there a simple fix? Otherwise I'll have to re-wav and
re-flac everything. Several wasted hours and one unhappy camper if I can't fix this.

FLAC/OGG thru HI-FI users - I have only heard my files through my computer multimedia speakers,
Altec Lansing medium quality, not like Pro Medias or Siroccos, but the end of the year I intend to
have a real audio system again and run my soundcard (TB Sant Cruz) thru it. If you have experience
playing both FLAC and OGG (at 10-level encoding) through hi-fi can you say what, if any sonic
differences there are? My plan is to have a good Kenwood 5.1 home theater reciever and BOSE 701
speakers. But until I get the system I can't make the tests myself so I'm asking other's opinions.


Thanks if you read this far.

D Mays

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