Flac - Sep 2004 - [Flac-users] BIG Problem!!! Help please!

Yeow! I have many files that have become unplayable. They are almost (but not
always) the files of
an entire CD. The error I get is FLAC_STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_LOST_SYNC. They
played until recently
using WinAmp and PhatNoise. They will not decode, returning a 0 error. I
recently re-installed
Windoze (XP Pro) if this might be a cause, but many of the files I had before
the reinstall still
do play. Thouroughly anti-vi'ed using Trend Micro's Housecall, no virus.

If you know what might have caused this is there a simple fix? Otherwise
I'll have to re-wav and
re-flac everything. Several wasted hours and one unhappy camper if I can't
fix this.

FLAC/OGG thru HI-FI users - I have only heard my files through my computer
multimedia speakers,
Altec Lansing medium quality, not like Pro Medias or Siroccos, but the end of
the year I intend to
have a real audio system again and run my soundcard (TB Sant Cruz) thru it. If
you have experience
playing both FLAC and OGG (at 10-level encoding) through hi-fi can you say what,
if any sonic
differences there are? My plan is to have a good Kenwood 5.1 home theater
reciever and BOSE 701
speakers. But until I get the system I can't make the tests myself so
I'm asking other's opinions.


Thanks if you read this far.

D Mays

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--- David Mays <maasman5@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yeow! I have many files that have become unplayable. They are almost
> (but not always) the files of
> an entire CD. The error I get is FLAC_STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_LOST_SYNC.
> They played until recently
> using WinAmp and PhatNoise. They will not decode, returning a 0
> error. I recently re-installed
> Windoze (XP Pro) if this might be a cause, but many of the files I
> had before the reinstall still
> do play. Thouroughly anti-vi'ed using Trend Micro's Housecall, no
> virus. 
> 
> If you know what might have caused this is there a simple fix?
> Otherwise I'll have to re-wav and
> re-flac everything. Several wasted hours and one unhappy camper if I
> can't fix this.
I'm not sure why this would cause a problem.  If the PhatNoise
software provides the libFLAC library and they have changed the
library in some way then that might be a problem source.

If any of these files were encoded with an alpha (pre-1.0) version
of FLAC they may not be forward compatible.

Some people have reported sporadic problems with the combination
of win2k and k6-II systems.  But you said you were going from
win2k to XP.

You could try getting a discussion going in the PhatNoise forums:

http://www.phatnoise.com/forum/

Josh


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