I've been having problems with Amarok and K3B, but I think it comes down
to a problem with flac. All my music and audio files are encoded in
flac format. I've ripped my CDs using KAudioCreator and using this
command to encode them (split for formatting):
flac --best -o %o --tag=Artist=%{artist} --tag=Album=%{albumtitle}
--tag=Date=%{year} --tag=Title=%{title}
--tag=Tracknumber=%{number} --tag=Genre=%{genre} %f
Recently I've had some problems with burning files with K3B, so I tried
this command to decode one flac file to a wav file:
flac -d amj.flac
And I got the following output:
flac 1.1.2, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005 Josh Coalson
flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you
are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `flac' for
details.
amj.flac: 97% complete
amj.flac: ERROR while decoding data
state = FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_END_OF_STREAM
The file plays without any problem from Amarok. How can flac encode
this without any problem and have problems decoding it?
Hal
--- Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> wrote:> amj.flac: 97% complete > > amj.flac: ERROR while decoding data > state = FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_END_OF_STREAM > > The file plays without any problem from Amarok. How can flac encode > this without any problem and have problems decoding it?hard to tell without seeing the file... can you host one (or email me if <5MB)? Josh ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html
On Thursday 01 February 2007 20:32, you wrote:> --- Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> wrote: > > amj.flac: 97% complete > > > > amj.flac: ERROR while decoding data > > state = FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_END_OF_STREAM > > > > The file plays without any problem from Amarok. How can flac > > encode this without any problem and have problems decoding it? > > hard to tell without seeing the file... can you host one (or email > me if <5MB)? > > JoshIf I post a link to the file, since it's from a CD, is there any problem with copyright? I know this isn't a huge mailing list. I just don't want to be creating problems with the RIAA and their temperamental people. Hal
can you host amj.flac somewhere? --- Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> wrote:> I've been having problems with Amarok and K3B, but I think it comes > down > to a problem with flac. All my music and audio files are encoded in > flac format. I've ripped my CDs using KAudioCreator and using this > command to encode them (split for formatting): > > flac --best -o %o --tag=Artist=%{artist} --tag=Album=%{albumtitle} > --tag=Date=%{year} --tag=Title=%{title} > --tag=Tracknumber=%{number} --tag=Genre=%{genre} %f > > Recently I've had some problems with burning files with K3B, so I > tried > this command to decode one flac file to a wav file: > > flac -d amj.flac > > And I got the following output: > > flac 1.1.2, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005 Josh Coalson > flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and > you > are > welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `flac' for > > details. > > amj.flac: 97% complete > > amj.flac: ERROR while decoding data > state = FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_END_OF_STREAM > > The file plays without any problem from Amarok. How can flac encode > this without any problem and have problems decoding it? > > Hal____________________________________________________________________________________ TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/
This may be solved. I'm sorry I didn't have time to post the offending file, but I noticed that the only files that had problems were ones I had ripped to my hard ? drive over a short period of time. ?While I keep track of security updates if they effect the kernel or something regarding the direct functioning of my system, I don't if it's something like the Xine library. When I saw the e-mail about a bug in the Xine library being fixed in Ubuntu, I thought I should be able to decode the problematic flac files again, but it didn't work. Then, last night, when burning a few CDs that I could leave in a new classic convertible I just bought (I have a rule: don't leave anything in a convertible you can afford to lose, so only burned CDs), that's when it hit me: Only a few files over a short period of time were effected! I grabbed some of the source CDs and re-ripped some of the problem tracks and they're working fine now. ?I can decode those tracks now. I'm going to put together a Perl script now and have it go through and test all the files in my archive (or probably all the ones within a certain time frame) and check them for errors. ?Then I'll just re-rip all the files with errors. I'm sorry I didn't have time to set up an ftp or web page with damaged files. ?Things have been a bit hectic. If it makes a difference, I can save the bad files so I can post them when I do have more time, in case that helps with trouble shooting flac. Thanks for the help! Hal On Wednesday 31 January 2007 11:19, Hal Vaughan wrote:> I've been having problems with Amarok and K3B, but I think it comes > down to a problem with flac. ?All my music and audio files are > encoded in flac format. ?I've ripped my CDs using KAudioCreator and > using this command to encode them (split for formatting): > > flac --best -o %o --tag=Artist=%{artist} --tag=Album=%{albumtitle} > --tag=Date=%{year} --tag=Title=%{title} > --tag=Tracknumber=%{number} --tag=Genre=%{genre} %f > > Recently I've had some problems with burning files with K3B, so I > tried this command to decode one flac file to a wav file: > > flac -d amj.flac > > And I got the following output: > > flac 1.1.2, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005 ?Josh Coalson > flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. ?This is free software, and > you are > welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. ?Type `flac' for > details. > > amj.flac: 97% complete > > amj.flac: ERROR while decoding data > ? ? ? ? ? state = FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_END_OF_STREAM > > The file plays without any problem from Amarok. ?How can flac encode > this without any problem and have problems decoding it? > > Hal