Topic: weird 24/96 flac or audacity problem

[db]

i can't really tell where the problem  is. i have a feeling that it's in audacity, but then i can't be sure.

history is:
recorded 24/96 files. simple edits in audacity, exported to 24/96 file, cut it up in cdwav, saved in "alternate 24 format", then flac via 1.7.1 with all of the selectoids unchecked. made a dvd-a iso via dvdaudiofile and wrote iso to dvd = no problem.
then: decided to make 16/44 files...
took 24/96 flac files and waved them in both (for science) xact and flacfrontend 1.7.1. imported to audacity and downsampled in every combo. the resultant wave files in the following bit depths/sample rates 16/44, 24/44, 24/48 showed a two second (or so) blank spot at the end of each file. all of the sound is there with a blank tail at the end. i use audacity to dither and downsample 24/96 unflaced files frequently and have never encountered this problem....leading me to believe that this maybe a flac issue.

the bad part of this is that i long ago deleted the original files...dang.


edit: this looks like an audacity problem as i've just had success with wavlab....

[hobbes4444]

Sorry to dig up an old post, but there were no replies, and this is the exact (almost) problem I just had.  I've used audactity a bunch without issues, but in my last mastering project I got 2-3 second blank spots at the end of each track that is traced back to audacity.

24/48 master file loaded into audacity (1.3.2 i think).  exported to 16 bit and resampled to 44.1.  i did track split (selected cursor to end, hit split, split looked fine).  then when i exported the tracks, 2 seconds of silence was added to each track.  very bummed as i upped the files based on my prior experience without this issue.  should have done additional QC, but i've never encountered this before. 

FWIW - i edited the .wav file slightly, then exported it as one file, and split it in cd wave.  that worked fine.  very bizarre.