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Hi,
Back in Thanksgiving I stumbled across a HDCD CLI "decoder" which would take the 16-bit WAVS from an HDCD encoded disc, apply HDCD processing and spit out a 24-bit wav. The biggest problem is there's right now now batch utlitity for this and it's a hassle punching in 13 or so commands or so for a full CD.
I decided to give the CLI encoder a try. the HDCD.exe executable supports stdin and stdout, so I figured I'd not have a problem there.
An example command like would look like this when using STDIN
hdcd.exe -o outfile.ext
If using a file, it's
hdcd.exe -o outfile.ext infile.ext
I spcified -o [outfile] for my command line and the first time I ran it, it worked just fine, aside from the fact dbpoweramp gave me some kind of odd error about the output, it still worked. I modified the command line a bit and added the -r flag which forces the encoder to treat input as 16-bit PCM and output as 24-bit raw PCM. This elimated the error and worked fine. So i went to run this for an album and I was getting this error:
*** Error: Error writing audio data to StdIn Pipe [clEncoder::EncodeBlock]
Now it seems regardless of what options i feed it, I get the exact same error. I've tried running debug and everything looks like it'll work, except for the StdIn Pipe error.
I don't know if it's a problem with hdcd.exe or some kind of internal thing with dbpoweramp. the Debug feature tells me a lot, but tells me nothing about what the CLI encoder output was...so I have this generic looking error message and no clue where the culprit is.
any ideas?
Back in Thanksgiving I stumbled across a HDCD CLI "decoder" which would take the 16-bit WAVS from an HDCD encoded disc, apply HDCD processing and spit out a 24-bit wav. The biggest problem is there's right now now batch utlitity for this and it's a hassle punching in 13 or so commands or so for a full CD.
I decided to give the CLI encoder a try. the HDCD.exe executable supports stdin and stdout, so I figured I'd not have a problem there.
An example command like would look like this when using STDIN
hdcd.exe -o outfile.ext
If using a file, it's
hdcd.exe -o outfile.ext infile.ext
I spcified -o [outfile] for my command line and the first time I ran it, it worked just fine, aside from the fact dbpoweramp gave me some kind of odd error about the output, it still worked. I modified the command line a bit and added the -r flag which forces the encoder to treat input as 16-bit PCM and output as 24-bit raw PCM. This elimated the error and worked fine. So i went to run this for an album and I was getting this error:
*** Error: Error writing audio data to StdIn Pipe [clEncoder::EncodeBlock]
Now it seems regardless of what options i feed it, I get the exact same error. I've tried running debug and everything looks like it'll work, except for the StdIn Pipe error.
I don't know if it's a problem with hdcd.exe or some kind of internal thing with dbpoweramp. the Debug feature tells me a lot, but tells me nothing about what the CLI encoder output was...so I have this generic looking error message and no clue where the culprit is.
any ideas?
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