flac dev - Feb 2009 - flac error with some aiff files?

flac.exe is choking on some aiff files as input with the following:  
"ERROR: SSND chunk size inconsistent with sample frame count"

According to Daren on the dBpoweramp forum "The flac.exe program ignores 
the amount of data bytes quoted in the SSND chunk and tries to read to 
the end of the file, which would be fine if the SSND data was the last 
data in the file. The problem is that there is an ID3 chunk at the end 
of the file which flac.exe doesn't recognise. It therefore thinks that 
the audio data is too long."

If this is true can flac be modified to accept these aiff files?  If not 
what would be the drawback, if any, of changing flac to just warn 
instead of quitting when encountering this error?

aiff files used for testing can be found at 
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/attachment.cgi?id=4653&action=edit and 
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/attachment.cgi?id=4722&action=edit

Steven Spies wrote:
> If this is true can flac be modified to accept these aiff files?
It probably can.

For a more immediate solution, try the sndfile-convert program
that is part of libsndfile:

    http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/

It uses its own AIFF file parser and libFLAC to encode to
FLAC.

Erik
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