Conversion Errors

[strictlydiscs]

I recently used Batch Ripper to encode ~2000 CDs to AIFF then attempted to convert those files to Apple Lossless using the Batch Converter. Of the 26,770 AIFF files, only 11,360 successfully converted. The AIFF files are stored on one external hard drive (K and the conversions were sent to another external hard drive (J.

The error messages are of three types:

Error converting to Apple Lossless, 'K:\MUSIC FILES\Aaron Weinstein\A Handful Of Stars\._01 After You've Gone.m4a' to 'J:\New Folder\_01 After You've Gone.m4a'
Unable to decode m4a file (is corrupt or not supported audio type).

Error converting to Apple Lossless, 'K:\MUSIC FILES\Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers\_Unknown_\._3-01 Dat Dere.aif' to 'J:\New Folder\_3-01 Dat Dere.m4a'
Error first chunk unknown: [clAIFFHandler::ScanFile]

Error converting to Apple Lossless, 'K:\MUSIC FILES\Len_PC2\Duke Ellington & His Orchestra\All Star Road Band, Volume 1\14 Duke Ellington - I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good.aif' to 'J:\New Folder\14 Duke Ellington - I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good.m4a'
Error unable to open File 'J:\New Folder\14 Duke Ellington - I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good.m4a' for writing. [clEncoder::BeginConversion]

Why won't these files convert?

[Spoon]

Re: Conversion Errors

see if anything can play the first 2 files you list.

I think you might have HDD corruption.

[strictlydiscs]

Re: Conversion Errors

They play fine in iTunes.

[strictlydiscs]

Re: Conversion Errors

They play fine in WMP and VLC MP as well.

[strictlydiscs]

Re: Conversion Errors

I am under a time crunch to complete this project for a customer and the software is failing. Is there anything that can be done to fix this issue?

[Spoon]

Re: Conversion Errors

>Error converting to Apple Lossless, 'K:\MUSIC FILES\Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers\_Unknown_\._3-01 Dat Dere.aif' to 'J:\New Folder\_3-01 Dat Dere.m4a'

Lets concentrate on this file, try converting it on its own to m4a, does it work?

If not copy the file to C:\, does then try converting when on C:, if it still does not work, you can email this file to me:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/email.htm

[strictlydiscs]

Re: Conversion Errors

When I convert one file at a time, it works. The problems occur during the batch process.

Also, after closer analysis, this problem is more complex.

1) I continue to get these error messages. Of the files that show up as errors:
a) some actually did convert - of those some seem intact yet others have obvious glitches
b) others did not convert at all (i.e. there are no files for them)

2) As I tested for these files, I noticed that many of the albums are missing tracks. So, I am missing hundreds maybe thousands of tracks from a variety of albums and only a small percentage of them showed up in the error report.

[Spoon]

Re: Conversion Errors

You would have to copy the files off the system to another system, then try conversions on the 2nd system, it all points to something being wrong with the computer, or HDD.

[strictlydiscs]

Re: Conversion Errors

I tried your suggestion and I still get conversion errors. I copied the files accurately to a different drive. I tried a conversion on that drive and I am still missing 1446 songs out of 24075. The missing files are from a variety of albums - often just one or two songs are missing from each album.

[Spoon]

Re: Conversion Errors

Try a different system, a different drive would not help if there was something running on the system interfering with dBpoweramp.

[logan1957]

Re: Conversion Errors

Hi, Spoon;
I wrote to you before in regards to a problem I'm having with the music converter. For some reason when I convert my MP3's down to wav files, the resulting wav file is 0 bytes in size. I was told that I needed to install the dsp effects for it to work right but even after doing so it's still giving me the same problem. I've used the converter before without any problems and it's just recently that it started doing this. I lost my computer to a mother board crash and now have a new acer aspire with 3 gigs of ram and windows 7 home premium. I just installed the program again and still have no luck getting it to convert properly. I'm currently using version 14.2 with the 15 day trial. Could that be causing my problems by allowing the converter to only convert so much before it stops working?
Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Degenrr]

do you know about that

anyone know about that something else ?

[dbfan]

Re: do you know about that

The trial has no limitations, run dbpoweramp config and enable the debug option on the music converter tab. Do one conversion and post the log file please.

[Logan2057]

Re: do you know about that

Here's the log from my converter, spoon. Any help would be great
Thanks,
Logan2057

Splitting Command Line:Done
->-> [dBCoreConverter::ReaddBCommandFile]
<-<- [dBCoreConverter::ReaddBCommandFile]
->-> [cldBCodecHandler::FindDecoder]
Checking Decoder 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\decoder\mp3.dll' for extension '.mp3'
Decodes [clDecoder::Get]
<<< Match, using decoder
Using Registry Cached Decoder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\decoder\mp3.dll
<-<- [cldBCodecHandler::FindDecoder]
BatchID [clDecoder::Set]
->-> [cldBCodecHandler::LoadEncoder]
Loading Encoder 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\encoder\Wave.DLL'
<-<- [cldBCodecHandler::LoadEncoder]
BatchID [clEncoder::Set]
->-> [dBCoreConverter::StripCoreConverterCmds]
<-<- [dBCoreConverter::StripCoreConverterCmds]
SendRawUnCompressed [clEncoder::Get]
Communicate [clDecoder::Get]
Communicate [clEncoder::Get]
NeedHQAudio [clEncoder::Get]
->-> [clDecoder::Open]
Opening file 'C:\Users\Logan\Downloads\Nina - 99 Red Balloons.mp3' for read access: Opened
->-> [clDecoder::ReadIDTags]
Reading Tag: APE contained 0 tags:
Reading Tag: ID3v2 contained 7 tags:
Track: 0
Title: 99 Red Balloon
Album: The Big 80's
Year: 1999
Genre: Rock
Artist: Nena
Length: 0
Reading Tag: ID3v1 contained 5 tags:
Title: 99 Red Balloon
Artist: Nena
Album: The Big 80's
Year: 1999
Genre: Rock
<-<- [clDecoder::ReadIDTags]
->-> [clsmpeg123::Init]
mpeg data stream begins at byte position: 256
<-<- [clsmpeg123::Init]
->-> [clDecoder::FillAudioProps]
Audio Quality: Low (Lossy)
Encoder: Xing (Guess)
Encoder Settings: Constant Bit Rate 128 kbps
Channel Mapping: Left, Right
Channel Coupling: Joint-Stereo
Sample Count: 10,330,601
MPEG Version: MPEG 1 Layer III
MPEG Technical: Header: (none) Bits: Copyright, Original
ID Tag: ID3v2.3 (ANSI) & ID3v1.0
Contains: ID Tag [ID3v2.3 (ANSI) & ID3v1.0]
Gapless: No
<-<- [clDecoder::FillAudioProps]
->-> [clDecoder::FillAudioInfo]
Uncompressed WFX (sent to db): Format Tag: 1 Channels: 2 Bits per Sample: 16 Samples Per Second: 44100 Bytes Per Second: 176400 Block Align: 4 CB Size: 0
Audio Length: 234253 mili-seconds 3748065 bytes 128 kbps
<-<- [clDecoder::FillAudioInfo]
Creating Decode Buffer: Created
<-<- [clDecoder::Open]
SendOverReplayGainTags [clEncoder::Get]
->-> [clEncoder::BeginConversion]
Converting to 'C:\Users\Logan\Music\Nina - 99 Red Balloons.wav' encoder settings ' -compression="ACM" -acm="55000200112B0000B80B0000010000000C00010002000 0009C0001000000"'
Wave output WaveFormat: Format Tag: 85 Channels: 2 Bits per Sample: 0 Samples Per Second: 11025 Bytes Per Second: 3000 Block Align: 1 CB Size: 12
->-> [clRIFFHandler::InitializeNewWAV]
clRIFFHandler::CalcAllChunks: Ok
->-> Adding Chunk 'fmt ' Length: 30 [clRIFFHandler::AddChunk]
clRIFFHandler::CalcAllChunks: Ok
<-<- [clRIFFHandler::AddChunk]
->-> Adding Chunk 'fact' Length: 4 [clRIFFHandler::AddChunk]
clRIFFHandler::CalcAllChunks: Ok
<-<- [clRIFFHandler::AddChunk]
->-> Adding Chunk 'data' Length: 0 [clRIFFHandler::AddChunk]
clRIFFHandler::CalcAllChunks: Ok
<-<- [clRIFFHandler::AddChunk]
->-> [clRIFFHandler::WriteChunkHeaders]
clRIFFHandler::CalcAllChunks: Ok
Writing Chunk Header 'fmt ' Length: 30 ChunkPosition: 12 ChunkDataPos: 20
Writing Chunk Header 'fact' Length: 4 ChunkPosition: 50 ChunkDataPos: 58
Writing Chunk Header 'data' Length: 0 ChunkPosition: 62 ChunkDataPos: 70
<-<- Exit as only write to data chunk [clRIFFHandler::WriteChunkHeaders]
Writing Chunk Data 'fmt ' Length: 30 ChunkPosition: 12 ChunkDataPos: 20
Writing Chunk Data 'fact' Length: 4 ChunkPosition: 50 ChunkDataPos: 58
<-<- [clRIFFHandler::InitializeNewWAV]
<-<- [clEncoder::BeginConversion]
Communicate [clDecoder::Get]
Communicate [clEncoder::Get]
Encoding To: Wave
Encoder Cmd Line: -compression="ACM" -acm="55000200112B0000B80B0000010000000C00010002000 0009C0001000000"
============= CONVERSION BEGIN =============
============= CONVERSION END =============
Communicate [clDecoder::Get]
Communicate [clEncoder::Get]
->-> [dBCoreConverter::CloseDecoder]
->-> [clDecoder::Close]
<-<- [clDecoder::Close]
->-> [clEncoder::EndConversion]
->-> [clRIFFHandler::WriteChunkHeaders]
clRIFFHandler::CalcAllChunks: Ok
Writing Chunk Header 'data' Length: 0 ChunkPosition: 62 ChunkDataPos: 70
<-<- [clRIFFHandler::WriteChunkHeaders]
Writing Chunk Data 'fact' Length: 4 ChunkPosition: 50 ChunkDataPos: 58
<-<- [clEncoder::EndConversion]
File Size Check : 70 bytes Filename: C:\Users\Logan\Music\Nina - 99 Red Balloons.wav
File Size Check (before ID Tags Written): 70 bytes Filename: C:\Users\Logan\Music\Nina - 99 Red Balloons.wav
->-> [dBCoreConverter::IDTagWriter]
->-> [cldBCodecHandler::FindDecoder]
Checking Decoder 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\decoder\Wave.dll' for extension '.wav'
Decodes [clDecoder::Get]
<<< Match, using decoder
Using Registry Cached Decoder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\decoder\Wave.dll
<-<- [cldBCodecHandler::FindDecoder]
IDTags [clDecoder::Set]
->-> [clWaveDecoder::WriteIDTags]
->-> [clRIFFBEXTChunk::TagsToBEXT]
Encoding BEXT chunk [clRIFFBEXTChunk::TagsToBEXT]
<-<- [clRIFFBEXTChunk::TagsToBEXT]
Opening file 'C:\Users\Logan\Music\Nina - 99 Red Balloons.wav' for write access: Opened
->-> [clRIFFHandler::Initialize]
clRIFFHandler::CalcAllChunks: Ok
<-<- [clRIFFHandler::Initialize]
->-> [clRIFFHandler::ScanFile]
clRIFFHandler::CalcAllChunks: Ok
RIFF Header 'RIFF' Length: 62 FormType 'WAVE'
Got Chunk 'fmt ' Length: 30 RiffSizeLeft: 50 ChunkPosition: 12
Got Chunk 'fact' Length: 4 RiffSizeLeft: 12 ChunkPosition: 50
Got Chunk 'data' Length: 0 RiffSizeLeft: 0 ChunkPosition: 62
clRIFFHandler::CalcAllChunks: Ok
<-<- [clRIFFHandler::ScanFile]
->-> [clRIFFLISTChunk::TagsToLIST]
<-<- [clRIFFLISTChunk::TagsToLIST]
clRIFFHandler::CalcAllChunks: Ok
->-> [clRIFFHandler::WriteChunkHeaders]
clRIFFHandler::CalcAllChunks: Ok
Writing Chunk Header 'LIST' Length: 112 ChunkPosition: 70 ChunkDataPos: 78
<-<- [clRIFFHandler::WriteChunkHeaders]
clRIFFHandler::CalcAllChunks: Ok
->-> [clRIFFHandler::WriteChunkHeaders]
clRIFFHandler::CalcAllChunks: Ok
Writing Chunk Header 'id3 ' Length: 2048 ChunkPosition: 190 ChunkDataPos: 198
<-<- [clRIFFHandler::WriteChunkHeaders]
<-<- [clWaveDecoder::WriteIDTags]
<-<- [dBCoreConverter::IDTagWriter]
Communicate [clDecoder::Get]
Communicate [clEncoder::Get]
Conversion completed in 11.4 seconds x20 realtime encoding
File Size Check (core converter exit): 2246 bytes Filename: C:\Users\Logan\Music\Nina - 99 Red Balloons.wav

[Spoon]

Re: do you know about that

It is likely it is the ACM encoder which is not accepting the data, try a normal uncompressed wave file, if that works then try to match the output frequency set in the ACM encoder by using the Resample DSP effect.