[Flac] CDex and Flac

[Chris]

i use EAC and it works wonderfully, over 300 CDs ripped, What i like 
about EAC is you can test/rip, it'll rip the track twice and CRC32 it, 
if the CRCs are diffrent you know theres an error somewhere.

Chris

rsdio at sounds.wa.com wrote:

> Where did your rip files come from?  Are they WAVE or AIFF?  My hunch is that  
> technically bad files were created when you ripped your CDs.  "data pad byte"  
> sounds like one of those things that is required in WAVE/AIFF, but many  
> application developers miss.  As a result of the various errors out there, many  
> tools will accept bad audio files without complaint, others will point out the  
> error.  I cannot be sure if this is what is happening, but that "unexpected  
> EOF" makes me think that a chunk ended on an odd byte, and that's not legal  
> because all chunks must be an even number of bytes long.
> 
> Oh, wait, I just noticed that the message says 536 million samples were  
> expected and only 12 million were found.  This looks suspiciously like the  
> kinds of bad files I was seeing with cdrecord, or another of the open source CD  
> tools.  I never did have the time to track down that bug and fix it.  Too bad,  
> because those tools seemed to rip audio faster than iTunes, but produced bad  
> audio files.  I do have some tools for repairing bad AIFF, but they not  
> available for distribution.
> 
> Since you may not be a developer, my advice would be to rip your CDs with  
> another tool, and then test the same FLAC frontend to see if it is the ripped  
> files that are causing the problem.
> 
> Brian Willoughby
> Sound Consulting
> 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:20:45 +1200
> From: Aaron Whitehouse <lists at whitehouse.org.nz>
> To: flac at xiph.org
> Subject: [Flac] CDex and Flac
> List-Archive: <http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac>
> 
> 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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