John Stimson;152998 Wrote: 
> Here's an idea: You could write a wrapper for flac that runs 'flac -s
> -t' and then aborts if there is an error.  It could then output an
> audio stream with you saying "FLAC ERROR", or Number Two's assistant
> saying "Orange Alert!".  If there isn't an error, it could go ahead and
> decode the file.  I think that would require server-side decoding.
> 
> As an alternative you could use a script that runs `flac -t` on every
> FLAC file in your music directory and reports which ones have CRC
> errors.  I've already written such a script.  It takes a list of
> filenames or directory names as an argument and recursively searches
> down through all subdirectories checking FLAC files.
> 
> Usage:
> flac-check.pl <file or directory name>
> 
> You need to install shellsafe.pl in /usr/local/lib/perl5
Yeah, I suppose *I* could do that, and I may do so.

But _if_ error detection on certain types of audio files is possible,
and other software can reliably detect these errors and avoid audio
glitzes, then shouldn't SlimServer/Squeezebox do the same?


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JJZolx

Jim
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