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

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

Well, this proves it.

I've been running XMMS for hours after deleting the playlist entries
without times associated with them.

I guess I'm not going to re-flac my files (<sigh type="relief"
/>).

This is still a bug in the Flac decoder plugin.  Under Windows, the error
is something about stream decoder and "%d".  This should be a pretty
simple thing to fix - just run a basic check of the file to see if it
looks anything like a flac file, and then hand it off to the decoder.

It's interesting that the playlist's time calculation didn't crash
the
plugin.  It just skipped over the invalid (empty, 0-size, plus ID3 tags)
files in the calculation, leaving the field blank.  Playing them crashes
the flac plugin.

-- Asheesh.

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Christer Palm wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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retitle 130041 Plugin crashes when loading invalid FLAC files
thanks

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 05:06:29PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> This is still a bug in the Flac decoder plugin.  Under Windows, the error
> is something about stream decoder and "%d".  This should be a
pretty
> simple thing to fix - just run a basic check of the file to see if it
> looks anything like a flac file, and then hand it off to the decoder.
Or even better, fix the decoder not to blow up when passed invalid data.
> It's interesting that the playlist's time calculation didn't
crash the
> plugin.  It just skipped over the invalid (empty, 0-size, plus ID3 tags)
> files in the calculation, leaving the field blank.  Playing them crashes
> the flac plugin.
Great, I'm glad that the mystery is cleared up.

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 - mdz