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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] 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 _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac
