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Title: 24/96 wav files become corrupted 24/96 flac files. Why?
Post by: JEMS on August 12, 2012, 01:05:18 PM
Hoping someone can help me. I'm working on a Mac, following the same workflow I have successfully many times before.

I have 24/96 .wav files that play fine in all programs (Peak, Amadeus, VLC). But using xACT to convert to FLAC, I end up with corrupted files. Peak will play them but they sound garbled and jumpy. Amadeus says they are corrupt. VLC plays them fine.

The same 24/96 .wav files were downconverted to 16/44 .wavs and those .wavs conveted to FLAC fine. So I think the original files are good.

Any idea why my 24/96 flacs are corrupt?

Thanks,

BK
Title: Re: 24/96 wav files become corrupted 24/96 flac files. Why?
Post by: scb on August 12, 2012, 01:22:05 PM
how do you know they are corrupt?  Just because Amadeus says so? Do they play in Cog?

http://cogx.org

do the files convert from flac back to wav or aiff fine? 
Title: Re: 24/96 wav files become corrupted 24/96 flac files. Why?
Post by: JEMS on August 12, 2012, 06:08:25 PM
Quote from: scb on August 12, 2012, 01:22:05 PM
how do you know they are corrupt?  Just because Amadeus says so? Do they play in Cog?

http://cogx.org

do the files convert from flac back to wav or aiff fine?

I can try Cog but they don't play back properly in Amadeus or Peak, and I got ._ header errors when I tried to make a torrent out of them.  That suggests they are either corrupt or have a header issue.
Title: Re: 24/96 wav files become corrupted 24/96 flac files. Why?
Post by: scb on August 12, 2012, 10:01:00 PM
what made these 24/96 wavs to begin with?
Title: Re: 24/96 wav files become corrupted 24/96 flac files. Why?
Post by: JEMS on August 17, 2012, 11:22:37 PM
Quote from: scb on August 12, 2012, 10:01:00 PM
what made these 24/96 wavs to begin with?

Captured in Audacity 2.0 at 24/96. Chopped up in Peak 6.0 into tracks. Those track .wav files were then converted to FLAC via xACT.
Title: Re: 24/96 wav files become corrupted 24/96 flac files. Why?
Post by: scb on August 18, 2012, 12:00:59 PM
any chance you can give me a download link to one of these raw wav files?