Re: flac and wav

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

Marko Randjelovic on 11/08/07 13:00, wrote:
> Adam Hardy wrote:
> > is anyone here familiar with wav files or flac encoding? I created a wav
> > file using ReZound and I'm trying to compress it with flac but I get the
> > following error:
> >
> > adam@gondor:~/tmp$ flac Ted/Ted\ Hughes\ -\ 1970\ -\ Crow\ \(side\ 1\).wav
> >
> > flac 1.1.2, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005  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.
> >
> > options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 8 -q 0 -r 3,3
> > Ted Hughes - 1970 - Crow (side 1).wav: 100% complete, ratio=0.331Ted
> > Hughes - 1970 - Crow (side 1).wav: ERROR: unexpected EOF; expected
> > 73923640 samples, got 73921536 samples
> >
> >
> > Flac reaches 100% while (presumably) encoding, but due to the error it
> > doesn't wwrite the flac file. This is with the --lax option which is
> > meant to be more forgiving.
> >
> > Is this symptomatic of a setting I should have configured when I saved
> > the wav file in ReZound?
>
> Maybe ReZound made bad wav file. Try some other wav file, from different
> source. Can this wav file be played with some player?

You were right. I had made 4 files actually, and 2 of them were bad. I opened 
them and re-saved them with ReZound, and they encoded properly this time. I'm 
glad it wasn't anything but bad luck. But the files were each 300MB in size and 
the length of time opening and saving them was so appreciable, I hadn't thought 
of trying it.

Thanks
Adam