[Flac] Re: Welcome to the "Flac" mailing list

[Alex Brims]

Ok, we actually worked this out - there were 2 extra bytes doing nothing at
the end of the files.  Opening the file in SoundForge and saving it (without
changing it) took off the extra bytes and allowed the file to convert to
FLAC.

Thanks to everyone who emailed me suggestions.

Is there a decent program for linux that could automatically take these
bytes off, without running the risk of removing good data?  Or is there a
way to get the flac converter to ignore this error and create the file?  I'm
running flac 1.2.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4.

cheers,
Alex

On 01/11/2007, Alex Brims <alex.brims at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having problems encoding certain WAV files to FLACs.  I'm working for
> a download store so we get loads of different WAVs from hundreds of
> suppliers and generally they encode ok, but sometimes we are getting
> unexplained errors.  I've looked through the archives for the last few
> months but I can't see any discussions that relate to this specific problem.
>
> This file: http://www.outspaced.com/tester.wav  was received in a batch
> with 14 other WAVs from a supplier.   Of these, 4 got rejected by the FLAC
> encoder, while the rest got encoded successfully.
>
> Each one that got rejected encoded up to 98 or 99%, before quitting with
> this error:
>
> tester.wav: 98% complete, ratio=0.610882269808838_01_14.wav: ERROR: got
> partial sample
>
> Normally when this error happens, the file has actually been truncated
> from a cutoff during FTP, but for these ones, the checksums supplied all
> match the ones we generated and the files don't sound like they're missing
> any audio.
>
> I've got no idea what else could be wrong with the file ... is there any
> ways around this?
>
>  Cheers,
> Alex
>
>
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