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Title: Corrupt Flac Files While Playing Back in Foobar
Post by: F0CKER on January 27, 2008, 12:22:04 PM

Been having some issues with flac files being corrupt for playback in Foobar as of late. Only seems to be happening with 24 bit files...and just ones I've encoded recently. Older 24 bit files play fine.  I haven't upgraded my version of FLAC, running 1.7.1  Anyone come across similar issues?  16 Bit version of the same shows play fine as well.  Odd...

Title: Re: Corrupt Flac Files While Playing Back in Foobar
Post by: JasonSobel on January 27, 2008, 12:23:38 PM

upgrade the the latest version of foober (v0.9.5) and you should be fine.

Title: Re: Corrupt Flac Files While Playing Back in Foobar
Post by: F0CKER on January 27, 2008, 12:33:38 PM

All good!  +T

I love this place!

Title: Re: Corrupt Flac Files While Playing Back in Foobar
Post by: John Kary on January 27, 2008, 08:43:03 PM

To explain a bit further, the author of FLAC recently (v 1.2.x ? I don't remember) upgraded the 24-bit encoding algorithm to increase compression ratio.  Older playback software would require an update to play back the new files.

If this happens to you, don't panic--the files can still be un-FLAC'd and are exactly what was encoded.