FLAC output - clicks unless saved with no compression

[Tom Skinner]

Hi,

I have a number of .ape files with cue sheets to convert into individual FLAC files, one per track. I used CUETools to read the cue sheet and generate individual .ape files for each track. The initial big .ape file and the individual files play without any issues in VLC.

I then used dbpoweramp music converter to convert the .ape files into .flac output. If I run the music converter with any compression then the .flac output is full of clicks and glitches. If I generate an output file with no compression then it plays fine. If I convert an ape file into .flac with no compression and then convert the uncompressed .flac file to a compressed .flac file then the glitches also appear.

I have just downloaded the AVS converter and it works fine although the compressed .flac file is slightly larger than the dbpoweramp one.

As I final test I took the AVS converted and compressed output (which plays fine) and ran it through dbpoweramp. If I enable compression then it's full of glitches;with no compression it plays fine.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Tom

[Spoon]

Re: FLAC output - clicks unless saved with no compression

It is a bug VLC, update to the latest version.

[Tom Skinner]

Re: FLAC output - clicks unless saved with no compression

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. The issue is still there with 2.1.1 (Windows) of VLC. However you prompted me to check the player I use for my main listening and the converted files work fine using DS Audio (Synology).

Tom

[Spoon]

Re: FLAC output - clicks unless saved with no compression

Try a player such as foobar 2000 please and see if the clicks are there, we have recently had many reports about VLC, yet our FLAC codec has never had an encoding issue in 10 years.