Hello, I am having some problems with flac. I remember using an older version a year or so ago and I don't remember having any problems. 1.) When I encode a raw file and then decode it to raw, it seems to add 12 bytes of nulls (this may not always be just nulls, i have only tested on one file and it starts with nulls anyway) 2.) When I try to encode a WAV and then decode it, it fails at 11% when decoding (again I've only tested one file) $ flac -o test1-from-wav.flac test1-sox.wav flac 1.0, Copyright (C) 2000,2001 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 0 -b 4608 -m -l 8 -q 0 -r 3,3 -R 0 test1-sox.wav: wrote 485680508 bytes, ratio=0.441 $ flac -d -o test1-de-flac-from-wav.wav test1-from-wav.flac flac 1.0, Copyright (C) 2000,2001 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. test1-from-wav.flac: 11% complete test1-from-wav.flac: ERROR while decoding data, state=6:FLAC__FILE_DECODER_STREAM_ERROR 3.) When decoding (I have only tried with the flac file created from the raw file), flac seems to want to wait until finished to write it out. I am quite sure I remember being able to pipe flac output before for realtime playback. I would appreciate if anybody could help me with these problems, because I have over 1000 cassette tapes and want to create a flac archive burned to CDs, and I want to be able to start as soon as possible. Thanks a lot, Pritpaul Mahal