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...bytes. The gotcha here, as I have tried to explain in similar cases before, is that we do not live in a perfect world. Many of us record audio and are unable to control whether a piece of hardware crashes and leaves the end of a WAV perfectly aligned or padded. In this case the recorder (Alesis hd24) did not crash, it apparently just doesn't pad. Since these are original audio masters being backed up, editing them isn't a viable option. The 'other cases' refers to situations where I am unable to use flac on WAV files if the WAV header size is different than the actual file siz...

There are not bugs in flac, they are bugs in your Alesis HD24. What you are asking for are features to be added to flac to fix the bugs in your Alesis. flac is the wrong place to be addressing errors in your Alesis hardware. A better solution would be a stand-alone program which can patch the errors in your WAV files, possibly asking for your choice in w...

...here, as I have tried to explain in similar cases before, > is that we do not live in a perfect world. Many of us record audio > and are unable to control whether a piece of hardware crashes and > leaves the end of a WAV perfectly aligned or padded. In this case the > recorder (Alesis hd24) did not crash, it apparently just doesn't pad. > Since these are original audio masters being backed up, editing them > isn't a viable option. I'll add my vote to this; it would be nice to have an option that would encode these broken wav files. It's a pity some recorders ar...