[ssamadhi97]

Five: He's trying the foo_clienc & flac.exe combo now, which is entirely unrelated to foo_flaccer


unholyone: Kind of hard to tell what's going wrong. Knowing the parameters you're using might help (screenshot of your preset, maybe?).

On a general note, make sure that "keep lossless sources at original bit depth" is checked in Diskwriter preferences (as shown on my first screenshot).

Also make sure that your flac.exe is up-to-date (1.1.2 is latest), and that there's enough free space on the target drive.

And you can keep flac.exe wherever you like, you just need to make sure that the correct path is set in the encoder preset.