Problems converting FLAC files to MP3

[bloodblade2]

Hi everyone,

A bit of advice please... I'm trying to convert some FLAC files to MP3 (V0 setting) and I'm getting the following error when I try to convert some files:-

Error converting to mp3 (Lame), 'F:\Music\FLAC\Dokken - Back For The Attack\10 - Stop Fighting Love.flac' to 'F:\Music\FLAC\Dokken - Back For The Attack\10 - Stop Fighting Love.mp3'
Encountered 'FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_SEARCH_FOR_FRAME_SYNC' in FLAC File 'F:\Music\FLAC\Dokken - Back For The Attack\10 - Stop Fighting Love.flac'

Error converting to mp3 (Lame), 'F:\Music\FLAC\Dokken - Back For The Attack\11 - Cry Of The Gypsy.flac' to 'F:\Music\FLAC\Dokken - Back For The Attack\11 - Cry Of The Gypsy.mp3'
Encountered 'FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_READ_FRAME' in FLAC File 'F:\Music\FLAC\Dokken - Back For The Attack\11 - Cry Of The Gypsy.flac'

This error can appear anywhere during the conversion process.

I'm confused as to what might be wrong as the FLAC files play fine in Winamp and the conversion process has worked fine for most of my music collection (also FLAC). Has anyone got any ideas how I might go about getting these files to convert?

Using dBpoweramp Music Converter R13.1 and FLAC Release 12 v1.2.1 encoder.

Cheers

I've included a log file below if that helps:-

<-<- [cldBCodecHandler::FindDecoder]
BatchID [clDecoder::Set]
->-> [cldBCodecHandler::LoadEncoder]
Loading Encoder 'C:\Program Files\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\encoder\mp3 (Lame).DLL'
<-<- [cldBCodecHandler::LoadEncoder]
BatchID [clEncoder::Set]
->-> [dBCoreConverter::StripCoreConverterCmds]
<-<- [dBCoreConverter::StripCoreConverterCmds]
SendRawUnCompressed [clEncoder::Get]
Communicate [clDecoder::Get]
Communicate [clEncoder::Get]
NeedHQAudio [clEncoder::Get]
Decode As [clDecoder::Set]
->-> [clDecoder::Open]
Opening file 'F:\Music\FLAC\Dokken - Back For The Attack\10 - Stop Fighting Love.flac' for read access: Opened
Init FLAC:
Reading Meta Data:
Contains picture block, size (bytes): 25655 type: 3
contained 7 tags:
TITLE: Stop Fighting Love
ARTIST: Dokken
ALBUM: Back For The Attack
Year: 1987
GENRE: Rock
Track: 10
ENSEMBLE: Dokken
->-> [clDecoder::ReadIDTags]
<-<- [clDecoder::ReadIDTags]
->-> [clDecoder::FillAudioProps]
Encoder: FLAC reference libFLAC 1.1.2 20050205
Sample Count: 12,886,020
ID Tag: Vorbis Comments
Contains: Album Art, CRC, ID Tag [Vorbis Comments]
<-<- [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: 292200 mili-seconds 34253159 bytes 1411 kbps
<-<- [clDecoder::FillAudioInfo]
Creating Decode Buffers: Created
<-<- [clDecoder::Open]
SendOverReplayGainTags [clEncoder::Get]
->-> [clEncoder::BeginConversion]
Converting to 'F:\Music\FLAC\Dokken - Back For The Attack\10 - Stop Fighting Love.mp3' encoder settings ' -V="0"'
Lame encoder settings: -V 0 --noreplaygain -r --little-endian --bitwidth 16 - "F:\Music\FLAC\DOKKEN~1\10-STO~1.MP3"
<-<- [clEncoder::BeginConversion]
Communicate [clDecoder::Get]
Communicate [clEncoder::Get]
Encoding To: mp3 (Lame)
Encoder Cmd Line: -V="0"
============= CONVERSION BEGIN =============
*** Error: Encountered 'FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_SEARCH_FOR_FRAME_SYNC' in FLAC File 'F:\Music\FLAC\Dokken - Back For The Attack\10 - Stop Fighting Love.flac'
============= CONVERSION END =============
Communicate [clDecoder::Get]
Communicate [clEncoder::Get]
->-> [dBCoreConverter::CloseDecoder]
->-> [clDecoder::Close]
<-<- [clDecoder::Close]
->-> [clEncoder::EndConversion]
<-<- [clEncoder::EndConversion]
->-> [dBCoreConverter::IDTagWriter]
->-> [cldBCodecHandler::FindDecoder]
Checking Decoder 'C:\Program Files\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\decoder\mp3.dll' for extension '.mp3'
Decodes [clDecoder::Get]
<<< Match, using decoder
Using Registry Cached Decoder: C:\Program Files\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\decoder\mp3.dll
<-<- [cldBCodecHandler::FindDecoder]
IDTags [clDecoder::Set]
->-> [clDecoder::WriteIDTags]
Opening file 'F:\Music\FLAC\Dokken - Back For The Attack\10 - Stop Fighting Love.mp3' for write access: Opened
<-<- [clDecoder::WriteIDTags]
<-<- [dBCoreConverter::IDTagWriter]
Communicate [clDecoder::Get]
Communicate [clEncoder::Get]
Conversion completed in 265 mili-seconds x1102 realtime encoding
->-> [clDecoder::Close]
<-<- [clDecoder::Close]

[LtData]

Re: Problems converting FLAC files to MP3

Can you play your FLAC file in a media player?

[bloodblade2]

Re: Problems converting FLAC files to MP3

Yes the FLAC files play OK in Winamp

[Spoon]

Re: Problems converting FLAC files to MP3

Winamp is not a good test as they do not use the official Flac decoder - we do, perhaps something like foobar or flac command line tools.