[Flac] The CDex and Flac saga continues

[Josh Coalson]

maybe cdex put id3 tags on them?  there are a lot of programs
that can re-tag batches of files.  the best place to ask about
this stuff is http://hydrogenaudio.org/

Josh

--- Aaron Whitehouse <lists at whitehouse.org.nz> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I seem to be in a bit of a bind. Below is the email which I sent to
> the
> list a while back. I wrote the vast majority of my CD collection to
> Flac
> and checked them with the Flac test (the -t option of Flac), they
> played
> fine and all seemed wonderful.
> 
> Sadly life is no longer roses and chocolates. Now as I come to rip
> the
> whole lot to Vorbis files, Oggenc is spewing an error that the files
> are
> 'not a supported format'. As the flacs which I have produced since
> moving to Ubuntu (with sound juicer) seem to work, I am starting to
> worry that all the files which I made from CDex are going to give me
> grief. Any ideas? Suggestions? Some magical something which someone
> can
> offer me to fix up whatever is wrong with my many Flac files??? Can I
> run some script to decode the flacs to wav and back again without
> losing
> the tags? Flac seems to think that they are fine, so I don't
> understand
> why Oggenc isn't happy.
> 
> It will be a rather major effort for me to redo the whole lot...
> 
> Thanks again
> Aaron
> 
> Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
> > I am using CDex to encode my music into Flac. I am using the latest
> > version of Flac (with the frontend etc.) and sending the rips to it
> as
> > an 'external encoder' with the string:
> > -8 -o %2 -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%b" -T "date=%y" -T
> > "tracknumber=%tn" -T "genre=%g" -
> > 
> > However, I am getting the below output/error with every file.
> > I assume that it is because I am sending Flac the incorrect file
> size or
> > track length but I do not know what to change in the string to
> correct
> > it. The flac files produced seem to work fine, but I would like to
> get
> > rid of the error if I can.
> > 
> > --------- -------- --------
> > options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 12 -e -q 0 -r 0,6
> > -:2% complete, ratio=0.667-: WARNING: unexpected EOF; expected
> 536870902
> > samples, got 12828672 samples
> > -: ERROR during read of data pad byte
> > 
> > -: 2% complete, ratio=0.664
> > --------- -------- --------
> > 
> <snip>
> > Thanks a lot in advance. Top work - all of your products are highly
> > recommended by me to all.
> > 
> > Aaron
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