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Title: skipping 24-bit FLAC files?
Post by: sleepypedro on June 20, 2009, 06:24:00 AM

I've seen a strange problem crop up twice now that I'd like to see if anyone else has experienced.

I listen to 24-bit filesets on my PC with winamp.  It's an old version, v5.35.

I encode my own 24-bit filesets with flac v1.20a.  Those playback fine.

Twice this week I've downloaded 24-bit filesets of recent phish shows and had them skip on playback.  It's not stuttering playback, not gaps in the stream.  The file will play a couple of seconds, then jump several seconds (sometimes up to 45-60), then play another fragment, then jump again.

The most recent fileset I've seen this with was encoded with Trader's Little Helper, no version number given.

When I extract the (otherwise error-free) fileset to .wav and re-encode with my own flac v1.20a, everything plays back normally.

Has anyone else seen this?

Title: Re: skipping 24-bit FLAC files?
Post by: rjp on June 20, 2009, 05:20:04 PM

Have you tried upgrading Winamp, or tried out Foobar2000? I've been encoding my own recordings with FLAC 1.2.1, and my Foobar2000 setup has no problems with it - nor does Winamp 5.551.