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First: I am not sure whether this is a beta release issue or not.
I rip to FLAC, with this option ticked. I did assume that this would guarantee the written .flac file to be decodeable, but so doesn't necessarily seem to be the case; I have a few counterexamples, where the .FLAC file aborts but the .FLAC.TMP file -- identical in size -- exists and plays OK (when I rename it).
Long version:
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- In a batch of 190 CDs ripped late April (28th, with a then-recent beta version), I had 10 defective files -- defective in the sense that they abort on decoding (from what I've heard both Synthetic Soul's "flac-verify.bat" and VUPlayer's "AudioTester.exe", just listen to error messages from the FLAC decoder; anyway, the latter application gave some errors like "(TRUNCATED @ 4m 15s)", and foobar refused to play after about that time in the track.
- For each of these tracks, there was a .flac.tmp file. Renaming and checking, the flac.tmp file was OK.
- All the files were track 01 or track 02 in the CD. No two in the same.
- A search later revealed that of the 190 CDs ripped, 59 had a .flac.tmp file -- 49 in addition to the 10 defective.
- Of the 59, 40 were track 01, 18 track 02 and only one later in the CD.
- None had weird characters in the file names (the flac-verify.bat bugs on such).
It seems that the .flacs files have noe been sufficiently verified. I would in the very least expect the final file to have been checked for such errors.
As for the mandatory "back up a.s.a.p." advice: thanks, done.
I rip to FLAC, with this option ticked. I did assume that this would guarantee the written .flac file to be decodeable, but so doesn't necessarily seem to be the case; I have a few counterexamples, where the .FLAC file aborts but the .FLAC.TMP file -- identical in size -- exists and plays OK (when I rename it).
Long version:
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- In a batch of 190 CDs ripped late April (28th, with a then-recent beta version), I had 10 defective files -- defective in the sense that they abort on decoding (from what I've heard both Synthetic Soul's "flac-verify.bat" and VUPlayer's "AudioTester.exe", just listen to error messages from the FLAC decoder; anyway, the latter application gave some errors like "(TRUNCATED @ 4m 15s)", and foobar refused to play after about that time in the track.
- For each of these tracks, there was a .flac.tmp file. Renaming and checking, the flac.tmp file was OK.
- All the files were track 01 or track 02 in the CD. No two in the same.
- A search later revealed that of the 190 CDs ripped, 59 had a .flac.tmp file -- 49 in addition to the 10 defective.
- Of the 59, 40 were track 01, 18 track 02 and only one later in the CD.
- None had weird characters in the file names (the flac-verify.bat bugs on such).
It seems that the .flacs files have noe been sufficiently verified. I would in the very least expect the final file to have been checked for such errors.
As for the mandatory "back up a.s.a.p." advice: thanks, done.
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