flac dev - Jun 2011 - MD5 Signature Mismatch

--- Brian Willoughby <brianw at sounds.wa.com> wrote:
There are no uncompressed files here, so it's difficult to discover what you
need
to know.
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I've asked him for the uncompressed first track to see what the correct md5
should
be

--- Brian Willoughby <brianw at sounds.wa.com> wrote:
This could be an uploading problem.  There are still too many variables at this
point to know for sure.  Is he using the flac command line tool, or some
third-party
front-end for FLAC?
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I thought it might be an uploading problem, but he also gets the same issues
when
simply moving from one of his computers to the other.   (I supposed that could  
also be a transfer issue, though I doubt it).

He's using a 3rd party front end for the mac (xACT) which simply calls the
flac
1.2.1 command line tool.

Thanks again,
Scott

On Jun 1, 2011, at 19:15, Scott C. Brown 02 wrote:
> I thought it might be an uploading problem, but he also gets the  
> same issues when
> simply moving from one of his computers to the other.   (I supposed  
> that could
> also be a transfer issue, though I doubt it).
>
> He's using a 3rd party front end for the mac (xACT) which simply  
> calls the flac
> 1.2.1 command line tool.

I'm starting to suspect xACT.  I've seen problems with the third  
party front ends before.  Personally, I only use the official command  
line for flac, particularly since I deal with original recordings and  
FLAC is my backup format of choice.  I just can't afford to let a  
third-party programmer make mistakes.

FYI: I grabbed an old FLAC from my hardware recording device, and  
"metaflac --show-md5sum T99.FLAC" says  
"00000000000000000000000000000000" ... so that's what it looks
like
when the MD5 checksum is completely missing.  This is obviously not  
your problem, but I wanted to specifically rule it out since we've  
not had any luck so far.

Brian