--- Brian Willoughby <brianw at sounds.wa.com> wrote: 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. --- end of quote --- I wrote xACT, and it just calls the official command line with flac [-level] [-V if chosen] [input file] there's nothing else going on in there when converting a wav to flac