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  1. #1

    Flac to WMA Lossless Results in Errors on Every Attempted track.

    Not sure what's going on here, but I've tried to convert two complete albums and every track reports a failed verification. I'm completely new to converting flac to anything, and haven't done much since ripping cds to mp3 via cdex and the mad decoder back in the napster days, so any help or direction is appreciated.

    I've checked updates as per the FAQ and have the flac and wma codecs installed. The flac files are roughly around 20-40MB's each and the WMA-L files are around 100-130MB each. I tag my files with Media Monkey. When converting I've had the settings at VBR Quality 100, 96 kHz, 2 Channel 24 bit VBR, and After Encoding Verify Audio.

    Thanks!

  2. #2

    Re: Flac to WMA Lossless Results in Errors on Every Attempted track.

    I tried converting at 48 kHz with debug mode on and still failed verification. Not sure if there's anything useful in the debug output but see below if so.

    Code:
    Splitting Command Line:Done
    ->->  [dBCoreConverter::ReaddBCommandFile]
    <-<-  [dBCoreConverter::ReaddBCommandFile]
    ->->  [cldBCodecHandler::FindDecoder]
        Checking Decoder 'C:\Program Files\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\decoder\FLAC.dll' for extension '.flac'
    Decodes  [clDecoder::Get]
      <<< Match, using decoder
      Using Registry Cached Decoder: C:\Program Files\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\decoder\FLAC.dll
    ->->  [clDecoder::Close]
    <-<-  [clDecoder::Close]
    <-<-  [cldBCodecHandler::FindDecoder]
    BatchID  [clDecoder::Set]
    ->->  [cldBCodecHandler::LoadEncoder]
      Loading Encoder 'C:\Program Files\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\encoder\Windows Media Audio 10.DLL'
    <-<-  [cldBCodecHandler::LoadEncoder]
    BatchID  [clEncoder::Set]
    ->->  [dBCoreConverter::StripCoreConverterCmds]
    <-<-  [dBCoreConverter::StripCoreConverterCmds]
    SendRawUnCompressed  [clEncoder::Get]
    Communicate  [clDecoder::Get]
    Communicate  [clEncoder::Get]
    NeedHQAudio  [clEncoder::Get]
    ->->  [clDecoder::Open]
      Opening file 'E:\Music\flac\Natalie Imbruglia\Counting Down the Days\04 - Counting Down the Days.flac' for read access: Opened
      Init FLAC: 
      Reading Meta Data: 
       contained 9 tags:
    			TITLE: Counting Down the Days
    			ARTIST: Natalie Imbruglia
    			ALBUM: Counting Down the Days
    			GENRE: Pop
    			COMMENT: Track 4
    			Label: Sony Bmg Europe
    			Track: 4
    			Year: 2005
    			ALBUM ARTIST: Natalie Imbruglia
      ->->  [clDecoder::ReadIDTags]
      <-<-  [clDecoder::ReadIDTags]
      ->->  [clDecoder::FillAudioProps]
    	Encoder: FLAC reference libFLAC 1.2.0 20070715
    	Sample Count: 10,999,128
    	ID Tag: Vorbis Comments
    	Contains: 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: 249413 mili-seconds  32435838 bytes  1411 kbps
      <-<-  [clDecoder::FillAudioInfo]
      Creating Decode Buffers: Created
    <-<-  [clDecoder::Open]
    SendOverReplayGainTags  [clEncoder::Get]
    ->->  [clEncoder::BeginConversion]
      Converting to 'E:\Music\flac\Natalie Imbruglia\Counting Down the Days\04 - Counting Down the Days.wma' encoder settings ' -codec="Windows Media Audio 9.2 Lossless" -settings="VBR Quality 100, 48 kHz, 2 channel 24 bit VBR" -vbr -verify'
      Creating WMA Writer
      Creating WMA Profile Manager
      Creating Empty WMA Profile
      Adding Audio Stream
      Initializing Converter
      Setting Profile
      Setting Output Filename
      Setting Input Format Type
      Begining Writing
    <-<-  [clEncoder::BeginConversion]
    Communicate  [clDecoder::Get]
    Communicate  [clEncoder::Get]
    Encoding To: Windows Media Audio 10
    Encoder Cmd Line:  -codec="Windows Media Audio 9.2 Lossless" -settings="VBR Quality 100, 48 kHz, 2 channel 24 bit VBR" -vbr -verify
    ============= CONVERSION BEGIN =============
    ============= CONVERSION END =============
    Communicate  [clDecoder::Get]
    Communicate  [clEncoder::Get]
    ->->  [dBCoreConverter::CloseDecoder]
    ->->  [clDecoder::Close]
    <-<-  [clDecoder::Close]
    ->->  [clEncoder::EndConversion]
      Destroying Writer
      Destroying Profile
      Destroying Profile Manager
    *** Error: Error audio file failed verification 'E:\Music\flac\Natalie Imbruglia\Counting Down the Days\04 - Counting Down the Days.wma'.
    <-<-  [clEncoder::EndConversion]
      ->->  [dBCoreConverter::IDTagWriter]
        ->->  [cldBCodecHandler::FindDecoder]
            Checking Decoder 'C:\Program Files\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\decoder\Windows Media Audio.dll' for extension '.wma'
    Decodes  [clDecoder::Get]
          <<< Match, using decoder
          Using Registry Cached Decoder: C:\Program Files\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\decoder\Windows Media Audio.dll
    ->->  [clDecoder::Close]
    <-<-  [clDecoder::Close]
        <-<-  [cldBCodecHandler::FindDecoder]
    IDTags  [clDecoder::Set]
    ->->  [clDecoder::WriteIDTags]
    <-<-  [clDecoder::WriteIDTags]
      <-<-  [dBCoreConverter::IDTagWriter]
    ->->  [clDecoder::Close]
    <-<-  [clDecoder::Close]
    Communicate  [clDecoder::Get]
    Communicate  [clEncoder::Get]
      Conversion completed in 14.9 seconds x16 realtime encoding
    ->->  [clDecoder::Close]
    <-<-  [clDecoder::Close]

  3. #3

    Re: Flac to WMA Lossless Results in Errors on Every Attempted track.

    Alright, I got it working. Though if someone can explain why it is working and why I'm getting the error I'd be greatly appreciated.

    When I convert at the same sample rate and size as the source flac file I do not get the error. When I convert at a higher sample rate and/or size I do. What causes this?

    Thanks again

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    Re: Flac to WMA Lossless Results in Errors on Every Attempted track.


  5. #5

    Re: Flac to WMA Lossless Results in Errors on Every Attempted track.

    Thanks, I had read through that post and really hadn't understood how that related to what I was experiencing. There are no bad files that are being reproduced poorly. It's when I convert a flac file to wma-l at a higher sample size or rate.

    If I convert to the same size and rate it verifys fine.

    That it doesn't verify makes a sort of sense (as I'm changing something), but considering both files are lossless I don't see why converting a flac file at 44 kHz and 16 bit to one that's 96 kHz and 24 bits should throw up an error.

    At this point I'm ready to write it off as irrelevant and upconvert all of my files for the sake of simplicity as I don't want to down convert any of my files if they happen to be from HDCD sources and I want to give my files the highest chance of sounding their best in mediocre equipment as per, uh, your audio guides :smile2: (which were great help by the way).

    Thanks.

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    Re: Flac to WMA Lossless Results in Errors on Every Attempted track.

    Does it always fail the verification? when upsampling? (if so, then sorry my link was wrong, not htat problem, but rather the verification routine not expecting the data to change for lossless).

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