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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: creekfreak on January 04, 2004, 03:47:41 PM
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Ok, decided to try FLAC. Got it installed ok, but it keeps erroring out in different places each time. Sometimes it will get through and encode fine. Other tracks it take me like 10-15 tries before it will stop dying saying I have a mistmatch in my audio data. Not consistent at all so I know the files are fine...what gives here? .shn never gave me issues like this.
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never had a problem like that with flac ever, whereas MKW will just randomly decide not to cooperate.
anyway, have you tried just uninstalling and reinstalling?
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you know, I should of thought of that, reinstalled, works fine now, duh!!!!! :-X
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+T creek... sometimes it really is that easy.
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I take that back, didn't have verified selected after the reinstall, keeps dying over and over, after about 10 tries, one track will do it right ???
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anyone?
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were you having problems with shn? why the switch?
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never had an issue with .shn. Just wanted to try out FLAC to see what all the talk was about. Heard it was faster and compressed things better, but so far I am not impressed, but its most likely a PC problem.
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I'm sure you've tried changing the compression levels, but I thought I'd throw that out there.
FLAC has optimized speed/compression around level 5 or 6
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Are you absolutely, positively, 100% certain the FLAC/WAV files are valid, non-corrupt? I know it's weird that it happens at different places/times in the file, but...I've seen stranger things happen.
Also, which installer are you using? Have you tried the installer on Mike Wren's site?
What OS?
When you deleted and re-installed, did you manually delete the FLAC s/w files (most un-install utils don't un-install very well)?
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well, .shn has no issues with these WAV's I am trying to make into FLAC files. Don't see how they could be corrupt. They play fine on discs, play fine off the HD, and where fresh DAT transfers. Win98 is the OS, did a manual uninstall. I went back to .shn, never had an issue.
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well, .shn has no issues with these WAV's I am trying to make into FLAC files. Don't see how they could be corrupt. They play fine on discs, play fine off the HD, and where fresh DAT transfers. Win98 is the OS, did a manual uninstall. I went back to .shn, never had an issue.
Duh, sorry, I misread - thought you were trying to decode, not encode. Which FLAC installer are you using? I remember having trouble with a different installer (don't recall which one), but the one hosted on Mike Wre's (http://www.mikewren.com) site worked for me flawlessly.
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I will check it out for sure, thanks
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thats the same one I downloaded after checking, oh well, no big deal, .shn still works ;D
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What kind of PC do you have? Is it overclocked? Most problems like this with FLAC are due to hardware corruption issues. SHN doesn't show these issues because it is much less robust in error checking when encoding.
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It's a home built machine, AMD 1.4, 392 megs of ram, I did read that overheating or overclocking can cause this issue, but I don't overclock and the PC is well cooled. My money is on the hard drive, it has some issues, need a new one.
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dont know if this will help, but make sure the sector boundaries is NOT checked!!!this is a known bug in that version i believe!!