Hey all-
Mirth posted in the What the FLAC? thread about having a problem with FLAC encoding WAV's to all static. Also I have heard of some other people occasionally having problems.
I think sometimes FLAC installs wrong. When I first switched over to FLAC from APE I did some testing. I took 16/44.1 WAV files and did the following
1) WAV>SHN (generate MD5)
2) WAV>FLAC>WAV>SHN (generate MD5)
then I manually compared by eye the MD5's which should have been the same. Much to my surprise the MD5's were NOT the same, indicating that FLAC encoding was corrupting the original data!!!!
So I reinstalled FLAC from a different download source, after which it seemed to work fine, the MD5's from 1 and 2 were identical.
I think the bad version I got from somewhere linked to the etree site, and that the version that worked I downloaded directly from Mike Wren's site. Just wanted to let everyone know about this, I think this is a good test just to make sure your version of FLAC is working correctly.
Take care,
Ben