No Audio From Ripped CD FLAC File

[mcraghead]

I happened to notice that the FLAC files of a CD that I ripped have no audio. At first I thought it was the player (MusicBee), so I rebooted, but still no audio. Then I tried VLC and Windows Media Player, but neither produced audio. The FLAC files from other rips play just fine, at least the ones that I have tried. Any idea what may have caused this scenario?

Thank you.

[garym]

Do the file sizes look normal or are they only a few kb. What does the ripping log say for the album. Ripped securely or accuraterip match? Maybe there was an error ripping but you didnt notice. My next step would be to rerip the cd.

[mcraghead]

garym Sorry for the delay. I thought I had already responded. Yes, the file sizes are normal. Is the log data archived? I only know how to access the data from the last rip (Menu > View Error & Information Logs).

I just noticed a slightly different situation today. I have a rip that I did this morning and just happened to start listening to it. One of the tracks in the middle of the ripped FLAC file has no audio. The file size looks correct, or at least it's not a low number. I believe it showed as an accurate rip, so I'm not sure what's going on.

I'm re-ripping the track now. It's taking a long time, but I do have Secure Rip enabled, so I guess it's to be expected.

I'm starting to wonder if any of my other rips have this issue. I guess I won't know until I play them.

I'm using Windows 10.

[simbun]

I'm starting to wonder if any of my other rips have this issue. I guess I won't know until I play them.

You can check the accuracy of your previous rips with PerfectTUNES.

[mcraghead]

This is the data from the re-rip:

Information ripping to FLAC, 'Track 5' to 'D:\Michael\Music\FLAC\Vivino Brothers\Chitlins Parmigiana\05 Vivino Brothers - Chitlins Parmigiana.flac'
Track 5: Ripped LBA 86517 to 112922 (5:52) in 48:27. Filename: D:\Michael\Music\FLAC\Vivino Brothers\Chitlins Parmigiana\05 Vivino Brothers - Chitlins Parmigiana.flac
AccurateRip: Inaccurate (confidence 38) Secure (Warning) [Pass 1 & 2, Ultra 1 to 6, Re-Rip 8556 Frames]
CRC32: 753F1233 AccurateRip CRC: 7A60E7CC (CRCv2) [DiscID: 013-00204bc3-01444182-bd0f6d0d-5]
Audio File Passed Verification

[mcraghead]

The re-ripped version plays. I guess I need to look at the logs from the first rip to see if there is something there.

[garym]

You can have a ripping lot created as a txt file and saved to your album subfolder at the time of ripping. This way you can always review the log in the future. Somewhere in CD ripper options, under secure ripping, toward the bottom of options. I'm not at home, but it says something about saving logs. Also change it to be a COMPLETE log (one of the options is complete or some similar word)

[mcraghead]

You can have a ripping lot created as a txt file and saved to your album subfolder at the time of ripping. This way you can always review the log in the future. Somewhere in CD ripper options, under secure ripping, toward the bottom of options. I'm not at home, but it says something about saving logs. Also change it to be a COMPLETE log (one of the options is complete or some similar word)

I found it. It's in the Secure Rip Settings. I will have the logs for each rip going forward. There are three options: Simple, Detailed, and Complete. What is the difference between the Detailed and Complete options? Do you know? I wasn't able to find that.

Thx.

[garym]

Complete is what i use.

[ForSerious]

Hopefully you have this all figured out by now, but I really want to know what any of those flac files that don't play sound look like in a wave editor.

[mcraghead]

No, unfortunately it is not worked out. I'm still discovering files that have no audio. I did turn on the logging. My next step should be to check the logs, but in the last file I noticed that had no audio I don't recall there being any issues with the rip in the summary.

I decided to take a look at the logs and it indicates a secure rip. I don't see any issues, but if there is no audio then there is obviously an issue. Also, file size appears to be normal. It doesn't appear to be truncated in any way. I'm on my phone, but I'll attach it in another post.

Ignore the part about a later post. I've attached the log here. Track 10 is the known track without any audio. I don't believe that I tried listening to any others.

if in fact that I'm reading the log correctly and there are no issues indicated, are there any thoughts on what might be going on to cause this given that most of the tracks I've ripped can be played and heard?

Thank you.

[simbun]

I decided to take a look at the logs and it indicates a secure rip. I don't see any issues, but if there is no audio then there is obviously an issue. Also, file size appears to be normal. It doesn't appear to be truncated in any way. I'm on my phone, but I'll attach it in another post.

Whilst there isn't a match to AccurateRip (I assume the disc isn't in the database) the log looks fine.

Run the files through PerfectTUNES and check that the track CRCs match the ripping log.

[mcraghead]

PerfectTUNES only found two corrupt files in my library and neither were the files that I discovered that don't have audio. Any other suggestions of what might be the issue? BTW, on the last track that I discovered that didn't have any audio, none of the tracks from that CD rip had audio. Any additional suggestions? Is my only option to re-rip the CD and hope it turns out differently?

Speaking of PerfectTUNES, by default it runs on my entire Music directory by default (I'm on Windows 10). Is it possible to narrow the scope to a subdirectory? I have a FLAC folder underneath Music where I've been ripping the files to. I didn't see a way to change the scope.

Thanks.

[simbun]

NOTE: If you want to verify your rips with PerfectTUNES you need to change the defaults (bizarre I know). In the AccurateRIp program click the spanner icon and deselect 'Use AccurareRipResult from ID Tag' (you can also change the library location here too).

PerfectTUNES only found two corrupt files in my library and neither were the files that I discovered that don't have audio.

I hadn't considered corrupted files. I corrupted one track from an album and ran it through PerfectTUNES; the summary screen showed all tracks were accurate, yet the log revealed the corruption. So it doesn't look like the summary can be trusted.

Any other suggestions of what might be the issue? BTW, on the last track that I discovered that didn't have any audio, none of the tracks from that CD rip had audio. Any additional suggestions? Is my only option to re-rip the CD and hope it turns out differently?

What does the AccurateRip log in PerfectTUNES (Match Details) say about that rip?

[garym]

Speaking of PerfectTUNES, by default it runs on my entire Music directory by default (I'm on Windows 10). Is it possible to narrow the scope to a subdirectory? I have a FLAC folder underneath Music where I've been ripping the files to. I didn't see a way to change the scope.

Thanks.

On the AccurateRip popup page (when starting AR), the bottom section is labeled "Music Library". One can remove directories or add directories to be scanned in that section. For example, I have my AR setup to only run on a subdirectory that contains my newly ripped files that I have yet to add to my main library.