[Flac] Fixing corrupt flac files

[Knut Krause]

So, let's provide some information then :-)

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soa2ii at thor /mnt/files/music/Slime/Alle gegen Alle $ flac -aF 02\ 
Störtebecker.flac 

flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007  Josh Coalson
flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for details.

02 Störtebecker.flac: analyzing, 96% complete

02 Störtebecker.flac: ERROR while decoding data
                       state = FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_END_OF_STREAM
02 Störtebecker.flac: ERROR, MD5 signature mismatch

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The *.ana: http://bpaste.net/show/69346/

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The size in bytes:
soa2ii at thor /mnt/files/music/Slime/Alle gegen Alle $ du 02\ Störtebecker.flac 
16680   02 Störtebecker.flac

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The size of the wav file
soa2ii at thor /mnt/files/music/Slime/Alle gegen Alle $ flac -dF 02\ 
Störtebecker.flac 

flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007  Josh Coalson
flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for details.

02 Störtebecker.flac: 96% complete

02 Störtebecker.flac: ERROR while decoding data
                       state = FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_END_OF_STREAM
02 Störtebecker.flac: ERROR, MD5 signature mismatch
soa2ii at thor /mnt/files/music/Slime/Alle gegen Alle $ du 02\ Störtebecker.wav 
22468   02 Störtebecker.wav

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The tail of the corrupted file: http://lagom.de/tmp/tail.flac

I hope this is all information needed :-)

regards


Knut


Am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2013, 19:36:34 schrieb Martijn van Beurden:
> On 10-01-13 19:15, Knut Krause wrote:
> > I think it's not possible to share those files without getting in legal
> > trouble here or is it possible somehow to extract some information so it
> > won't be an issue?
> 
> It could have been you had a file with the problem which is released
> under a Creative Commons licence, but that's not very common. Just asking.
> 
> You can do a few things. Reading your previous post, it seems you now
> how to work with a command line, so could you post the output of the
> following two commands:
> 
> flac -a -F some_corrupt_file.flac (see the .ana file which is generated)
> metaflac --list some_corrupt_file.flac (just the console output)
> 
> Plus the exact size (in bytes) of the FLAC-file and the WAV-file that
> you retrieve using flac -d -F some_corrupt_file.flac
> 
> You can also try to cut off the last 500kb of the FLAC-file if you are
> using Linux (or other UNIX-like probably, I have no idea how to do this
> in Windows or Mac)
> tail -c 500000 some_corrupt_file.flac > tail_cut_off.flac
> That's a sample of at most 10 seconds and won't get you into trouble.
> 
> 
> 
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