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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: TNJazz on December 28, 2006, 07:48:16 AM
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Recorded several 24 bit files for a project this past weekend. When I go to FLAC them, I get the following error:
ERROR: block size is 3; must be 0
It doesn't compress any files at all and burns through all 8 of them with the same error. This happens both in xAct on the Mac and in Frontend under XP.
Anyone seen this before?
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just curious... did you do any processing to the files or are you just FLACing the raw files?
from looking at some quick stuff I found by googling FLAC blocksize it sounds like it might be a bug in the software you are using. without getting too technical it looks like instead of allowing the encoder to estimate the blocksize it is trying to force a blocksize. According to what I read it is best to let the encoder estimate a blocksize.
what software are you using? did you try any other software to flac the files?
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what software are you using? did you try any other software to flac the files?
xACT just calls flac directly, and i believe frontend does, too, so i doubt anything else would have success.
where are these files from?
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I guess my questions were a little stupid since they were clearly answered in dirk's first post. you'd never know I fix software for a living ;D
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what software are you using? did you try any other software to flac the files?
xACT just calls flac directly, and i believe frontend does, too, so i doubt anything else would have success.
where are these files from?
These are 8 tracks of 24/48 aif files that I recorded last weekend using the Metric Halo record panel (which writes aif files automatically).
I tried to drop them into mkwAct just for fun, and they didn't even register. The files seem to work just fine as aif though - when I build a project in Nuendo or Cubase I don't notice any anomalies in the wave files themselves. Everything plays and works just fine.
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I thought the Metric Halo record panel wrote in sd2 format? not aiff?
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I thought the Metric Halo record panel wrote in sd2 format? not aiff?
The new record panel has the option to select SDII or aif (even wav, I think).
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i wonder if it has some strange header info
did you try the -lax setting in xACT?
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i wonder if it has some strange header info
did you try the -lax setting in xACT?
No, but I'll try it when I get home tonight. I believe this might be the first time I've written aif files with the Halo...could very well be a MHLabs issue.
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i wonder if it has some strange header info
did you try the -lax setting in xACT?
No, but I'll try it when I get home tonight. I believe this might be the first time I've written aif files with the Halo...could very well be a MHLabs issue.
-lax has no effect. Still the same error at the same speed (immediate). Very curious.
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have you tried converting the files to aiff or wav in another program? i think the MH record console is writing some strange header
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have you tried converting the files to aiff or wav in another program? i think the MH record console is writing some strange header
I agree, this sounds like a problem with the MH software. What can I use to do a conversion? Is there anything out there that converts aif straight to wav? I'd rather not open up each file and re-render them if I can help it...
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You can open them in cd wave and then save them under save it gives you the option to as many different file types, I have used this to bring a few files back from the dead in similar situations. good luck!
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have you tried converting the files to aiff or wav in another program? i think the MH record console is writing some strange header
I agree, this sounds like a problem with the MH software. What can I use to do a conversion? Is there anything out there that converts aif straight to wav? I'd rather not open up each file and re-render them if I can help it...
open them in any editor and just resave