Error converting ALAC files: ALAC decoder initialization failure

[masterllama]

Hi,

I used to use dbpoweramp back in the day, was using Switch for a while, but would like to switch back to dbpoweramp.

I'm testing converting some of my ALAC files (with .mp4 extension) to AAC for use on my portable devices. However, I am unable to convert any of the files with the following error message:

"ALAC: ALAC decoder initialization failure. [ALACDEC::Open]"

The same file can be converted easily by Switch, so the files are definitely not corrupted.

The sample file can be found here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n7HvoVn89yBEzO1Z-GgvaINxSzXmsHi7/view?usp=sharing

Here's a copy of the full debug logs from one of my attempted encoding:

Splitting Command Line:"C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\CoreConverter.exe" -dbcmd="C:\Users\Joseph\AppData\Local\Temp\dBTD986.tmp"
->->  [dBCoreConverter::ReaddBCommandFile]
<-<-  [dBCoreConverter::ReaddBCommandFile]
Decodes  [clDecoder_M4A::Get]
Decodes  [clDecoder_M4A::Get]
BatchID  [clDecoder_M4A::Set]
->->  [cldBCodecHandler::LoadEncoder]
  Loading Encoder 'C:\Program Files\dBpoweramp\encoder\mp3 (Lame).DLL'
<-<-  [cldBCodecHandler::LoadEncoder]
BatchID  [clEncoder::Set]
->->  [dBCoreConverter::StripCoreConverterCmds]
<-<-  [dBCoreConverter::StripCoreConverterCmds]
SendRawUnCompressed  [clEncoder::Get]
Communicate  [clDecoder_M4A::Get]
Communicate  [clEncoder::Get]
NeedHQAudio  [clEncoder::Get]
Decode As  [clDecoder_M4A::Set]
->->  [clDecoder_M4A::Open]
  ->->  [clDecoder_M4A::Close]
  <-<-  [clDecoder_M4A::Close]
  Opening file 'C:\Users\Joseph\Desktop\Working\Export\Album\Boombox Cartel\Máquina\Boombox Cartel - Máquina.mp4Opened
  Opening tag reader / writer: Opened
  ->->  [clMP4Handler::ScanFile]
      Got Chunk 'ftyp'  Length: 20  ChunkPosition: 0
      Got Chunk 'moov'  Length: 323415  ChunkPosition: 20
      Got Chunk 'wide'  Length: 8  ChunkPosition: 323435
      Got Chunk 'mdat'  Length: 28100355  ChunkPosition: 323443
  <-<-  [clMP4Handler::ScanFile]
  ->->  [clMP4Handler::ScanFile]
      Got Chunk 'mvhd'  Length: 108  ChunkPosition: 28
      Got Chunk 'trak'  Length: 9745  ChunkPosition: 136
      Got Chunk 'udta'  Length: 313554  ChunkPosition: 9881
  <-<-  [clMP4Handler::ScanFile]
  ->->  [cliTunesTag::Initialize2]
    Looking for meta block...
    ->->  [cliMemoryAtomParse::Initialize]
    <-<-  [cliMemoryAtomParse::Initialize]
    Found meta, looking for ilst block...
    ->->  [cliMemoryAtomParse::Initialize]
    <-<-  [cliMemoryAtomParse::Initialize]
    Found ilst.
  <-<-  [`anonymous-namespace'::clTagInitState::ReadUdata]
  ->->  [clDecoder_M4A::ReadIDTags]
			Contains 9 ID Tags
			Album: Máquina
			Track: 1/1
			Title: Máquina
			Disc: 1/1
			Copyright: Boombox Cartel / Create Music Group Inc.
			Album Artist: Boombox Cartel
			Artist: Boombox Cartel
			Year: 2020
			_albumart_1: DATA Length: 311099   ......JFIF.....`.`..
  <-<-  [clDecoder_M4A::ReadIDTags]
  ALAC Track Found
*** Information: ALAC: ALAC decoder initialization failure.  [ALACDEC::Open]
  ->->  [clDecoder_M4A::Close]
  <-<-  [clDecoder_M4A::Close]
  ->->  [aacstream::clDecoder_M4A::Close]
  <-<-  [aacstream::clDecoder_M4A::Close]

[Spoon]

Re: Error converting ALAC files: ALAC decoder initialization failure

The file is corrupted, even foobar2000 will not decode. dBpoweramp uses Apples own ALAC decoder, it is apples own code which cannot read the alac file.