Topic: flac encoding help

[travelinbeat]

I've tracked out and flac'ed out a show without any issues aside from the last track.  I've tried closing and reopening Flac, uninstalling and reinstalling, re-saving the wav, renaming the wav, relocating the wav, and still it reporting either that it cannot open it, or once it has encoded, it has encoded with one General Error.  Any ideas as to what I can do to get this working correctly?

Thanks in advance

[John Kary]

Some application is probably still accessing the file, like a music player or sound editor.  Restart your computer if this persists and then try encoding it to FLAC.  If that doesn't work, maybe try uploading the wav file and we can try to encode it.

[boojum]

It may be that your FLAC is the latest iteration, 1,2,1, and you player/reader cannot read it.  Try foobar2000.  If that does not read it, for sure it is something else.

That is what I would try, anyway.

Cheers

[travelinbeat]

Some application is probably still accessing the file, like a music player or sound editor.  Restart your computer if this persists and then try encoding it to FLAC.  If that doesn't work, maybe try uploading the wav file and we can try to encode it.

Tried to no avail.  I've uploaded it, I'd be much abliged if someone could take a couple mins to DL it, encode at level 8, and re-upload it.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V2OV3WT1
Thanks!

It may be that your FLAC is the latest iteration, 1,2,1, and you player/reader cannot read it.  Try foobar2000.  If that does not read it, for sure it is something else.

The problem is just encoding it properly in the first place; I am getting errors in the command prompt thing before I even attempt playback =/

[boojum]

OK, misread your first post.  I am downloading your file now and will let you know how I do with it.

Cheers

[boojum]

Ok, I get the same messages you do in the FLAC front end.  However, I played it in foobar2000 just fine.  So, I  thought I would see if foobar would encode it at FLAC 8: 54.1 meg.  Nice and easy.  When all else fails, try foobar.

Cheers.

Also works with CD Wave.  I just exported it without cutting any tracks.

[travelinbeat]

Thanks for that! 

How do I convert wav to flac in foobar?

[boojum]

RTFM!  Read The Fucking Manual!    LOL

OK, highlight the track in foobar and right click it; select the "convert" menu.  From there select "convert to" and then "FLAC."  To the right of the "FLAC" box is a small button with "..." on it.  Click that and select the compression rate you desire.  You will then be asked where you want the output to go.  If you D/L 0.9.5 beta 5 the new FLAC dll's are already in it.  Go!

Play around with foobar.  it does lots of things well.

Cheers

[travelinbeat]

I swear I looked there a hundred times and never saw it till after reading your message! 

+T on the help, it worked like a champ.  sorry for the stupid question!

[boojum]

Here, as in so many places, we all start at knowing little.  Plus, I have made exactly the same mistake many, many times.    Glad I could help you out.

Cheers