Topic: TLH v2.8.3 - WON'T FLAC WAV files from WaveLab Pro 11?

[F.O.Bean]

FWIW, FLAC Frontend v2.1 does without issue, so I don't understand what's going on here? Keeps giving me error and testing failed messages???

I saw in another thread that the checksums failed in TLH v2.8.4, and it's why I reverted back to 2.8.3! My ST5 checksums kept failing....BUT, Gordon posted a fix to this with "FLAC 1.3.2', but it's a little bit over my head on how to patch 2.8.4 to fix it? Anyone think updating back to 2.8.4 would solve this? FWIW, FLAC Frontend v2.1 is using FLAC 1.3.0 and has zero issues.

Not a huge problem using FF to do the FLAC'ing straight from WL Pro 11, but I just wondered why it's behaving this way? Any help would be appreciated

TIA,
Bean

[morst]

Are they 24 or 32 bit?
xACT and XLD both can't deal with 32 float > FLAC

[scb]

Are they 24 or 32 bit?
xACT and XLD both can't deal with 32 float > FLAC

Does flac support 32 bit float?

If the flac format supports it, then I'll make xACT work with it.

[Gordon]

Copy and replace flac.exe and metaflac.exe using version 1.3.2. 

You are replacing those files in the TLH directory which should be C:\Program Files (x86)\Trader's Little Helper\CmdlineApps.

No idea if this will solve it but that's how you change the flac version in TLH.

[Gordon]

Are they 24 or 32 bit?
xACT and XLD both can't deal with 32 float > FLAC

Does flac support 32 bit float?

If the flac format supports it, then I'll make xACT work with it.

No.  I use wavpack to compress my untracked 32b raw and edited files for archiving. 

[scb]

What kind of audio samples does FLAC support?

FLAC supports linear PCM samples with a resolution between 4 and 32 bits per sample. FLAC does not support floating point samples. In some cases it is possible to losslessly transform samples from an incompatible range to a FLAC-compatible range before encoding.

FLAC supports linear sample rates from 1Hz - 655350Hz in 1Hz increments.

Will FLAC ever support floating-point samples?

It's unlikely FLAC will ever support floating-point samples natively. The main application for floating-point is audio engineering, which demands easy editing and very high speed for both encoding and decoding above everything else.

FLAC is designed as a consumer audio format. It trades ease of editing for a featureful, robust transport layer more suited for playback, and encoding speed for more compression and faster decompression.