--- "David W. Tamkin" <dattier@panix.com>
wrote:> Two wavs I tried to encode tonight got errors near their ends, saying
> something like "skipped unknown sub-chunk 'LIST'." These
occurred at
> 97% into
> one file and 98% into the other. If I hadn't brought the DOS command
> window
> to the foreground and hadn't been at the monitor watching before
> these
> warnings were scrolled away by the displays from work on other files
> in the
> batch, I wouldn't have known: the front-end reported nothing about
> the errors.
>
> The wavs were ripped by EAC, and I couldn't imagine what might be
> troublesome
> about them. I resaved them with GoldWave and re-flacced them, but
> FLAC gave
> the same warnings. The resulting .flac files played properly in
> WinAmp, and
> the wavs I decoded from them matched exactly (according to EAC's
> Compare Wavs
> function) to the originals from which they had been encoded.
>
> Was there a problem or wasn't there?
Depends if you need the 'list' subchunk. It is WAVE metadata,
not audio, and FLAC only stores 'fmt ' and uncompressed PCM audio
'data' subchunks. I need to do a FAQ and this would be on it but
look for my response in this thread:
http://forums.FurthurNET.com/viewtopic.php?t=4213&start=34
Josh
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