[Flac] CDex and Flac

Aaron Whitehouse lists at whitehouse.org.nz
Sun Jul 3 05:20:45 PDT 2005


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
--------- -------- --------

In addition, and because I am writing anyway, I cannot seem to get it to
create ogg-flacs. I have tried adding '--ogg' to the beginning of the
string above and changing the extension, but that seems to yield files
which are unplayable in any of the players (Winamp with plugin, WMP with
directshow filters, downloading VLC to test it with that) but which are
(quickly) marked as 'okay' by the FLAC frontend - far faster than a test
of a Native file. I am wondering if it is simply that the above error is
causing more problems for ogg-flac than flac-native. Is there a simple
utility which can convert FLAC-native to ogg-FLAC without re-encoding
and translating tags?

Thanks a lot in advance. Top work - all of your products are highly
recommended by me to all.

Aaron
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