flac dev - Sep 2004 - Re: #130041: xmms-flac: breaks periodically

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:24:10PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> XMMS-flac still breaks periodically.  It just skips over FLAC files,
> playing only the MP3 files in my playlist.  Crash is the wrong word.  If
> anything, the flac plugin might be breaking; all I can tell is XMMS no
> longer plays the flac files.  I have to kill and re-run XMMS.  This
> happens every few hours of continuous playback, on random files.
> 
> Should I try decoding and re-encoding the files?  Some of them might be
> from FLAC 0.9, but that was still a pretty stable release I thought.
Anything that you can try would be helpful, as I don't have a clue at this
point.  I'm CCing flac-dev as well.

-- 
 - mdz

Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> Anyone here have any ideas?  Is there a trace I can add to the flac
> plugin, or some diagnostic method?  Is there some debugging routine I can
> use to see what's going on?
> 
I concluded some months ago that this is exactly what happens if you try 
to play a zero-length file with a .flac extension. After that, all .flac 
files are skipped. This may not be exactly what is causing the problems 
here, but unless this has been fixed recently, it's a very simple way to 
reproduce the problem.

-- 
Christer Palm

Anyone here have any ideas?  Is there a trace I can add to the flac
plugin, or some diagnostic method?  Is there some debugging routine I can
use to see what's going on?

I'll write a script to re-decode/encode the flac files and see if that
fixes it.  Should be done by tomorrow or the day after (I have some 800
flac files, of length 3-8 minutes).

-- Asheesh.

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:24:10PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>
> > XMMS-flac still breaks periodically.  It just skips over FLAC files,
> > playing only the MP3 files in my playlist.  Crash is the wrong word. 
If
> > anything, the flac plugin might be breaking; all I can tell is XMMS no
> > longer plays the flac files.  I have to kill and re-run XMMS.  This
> > happens every few hours of continuous playback, on random files.
> >
> > Should I try decoding and re-encoding the files?  Some of them might
be
> > from FLAC 0.9, but that was still a pretty stable release I thought.
>
> Anything that you can try would be helpful, as I don't have a clue at
this
> point.  I'm CCing flac-dev as well.
>
>