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Old 2005-04-20, 12:08 AM
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Experts! Here's a puzzle for you... or maybe just a question from me.

Okay, so I have a show that is just one shn file and the md5 of the wav. Nothing else came with it. So here's what I did:

1 - decompressed to wav with MKWAct to check the md5, it's fine.

2 - tried to convert wav to flac in Flac Frontend, at 99% got an error:
ERROR: got partial sample

checked the st5 for it and the wav and shn anyway to see what it came up as:
Quote:
6faa4359559caa616d64bfaae1d06053 [shntool] Prince + Carlos - Santana Medley.shn
b3699efe442c91bd5e3ba80d4da42184 [shntool] Prince + Carlos - Santana Medley.flac
6faa4359559caa616d64bfaae1d06053 [shntool] Prince + Carlos - Santana Medley.wav
3 - tried to convert shn to flac in foobar, no errors reported:
INFO (foo_flaccer) : Encoding finished successfully
checked st5:
Quote:
6faa4359559caa616d64bfaae1d06053 [shntool] Prince + Carlos - Santana Medley.shn
a9158820ac7cc6437541c118f97c35c1 [shntool] Prince + Carlos - Santana Medley.flac
6faa4359559caa616d64bfaae1d06053 [shntool] Prince + Carlos - Santana Medley.wav
as you can see, the flac has a different st5 than the other flac I made, but still doesn't match the shn and wav.

4 - tried to convert wav to flac in foobar, no errors reported:
INFO (foo_flaccer) : Encoding finished successfully
checked st5:
Quote:
6faa4359559caa616d64bfaae1d06053 [shntool] Prince + Carlos - Santana Medley.shn
a9158820ac7cc6437541c118f97c35c1 [shntool] Prince + Carlos - Santana Medley.flac
6faa4359559caa616d64bfaae1d06053 [shntool] Prince + Carlos - Santana Medley.wav
same as the other foobar conversion.

Checked for SBE and there is one. Plus another error:
Quote:
length expanded size cdr WAVE problems filename
10:05.23 106776594 -b- -- -a-xx Prince + Carlos - Santana Medley.shn
10:05.23 101.83 MB (total for 1 file, 0.7737 overall compression ratio)
length expanded size cdr WAVE problems filename
10:05.23 106776592 -b- -- ---xx Prince + Carlos - Santana Medley.flac
10:05.23 101.83 MB (total for 1 file, 0.7115 overall compression ratio)
length expanded size cdr WAVE problems filename
10:05.23 106776594 -b- -- -a--- Prince + Carlos - Santana Medley.wav
10:05.23 101.83 MB (total for 1 file, 1.0000 overall compression ratio)
Looked up what the a meant:
'a' audio data is not block-[a]ligned
But I still don't know what that means. Is that what's screwing up my flac? Why is the shn okay? How do I get rid of the a?

Okay so now I'm tying to figure out how to fix just one track. I lost the shntool command for it and I'm searching, but in the meantime I have step #5

5 - tried converting to flac using Batchenc:
ERROR: got partial sample (same as Flac Frontend)
checked st5:
Quote:
6faa4359559caa616d64bfaae1d06053 [shntool] Prince + Carlos - Santana Medley.shn
b3699efe442c91bd5e3ba80d4da42184 [shntool] Prince + Carlos - Santana Medley.flac
6faa4359559caa616d64bfaae1d06053 [shntool] Prince + Carlos - Santana Medley.wav
flac has same hash as the one generated with Flac Frontend.

So this makes me wonder how good the conversion process is in foobar? I'm using foobar2000 0.8.3, configured per Five's guide, except I've now changed the encoding level to 5.


So how 'bout them apples? And how the hell do I fix just one track? TLH is supposed to do it but it doesn't. Okay fixed just the one track using Batchenc. Now I'll try the flac conversion again....


Okay SBE is fine now, no errors at all.

Flac encoding in Flac frontend fine and st5 matches wav
Quote:
ce7928e216e2ed535f2f84a46aa2670a [shntool] Prince + Carlos - Santana Medley-fixed.flac
ce7928e216e2ed535f2f84a46aa2670a [shntool] Prince + Carlos - Santana Medley-fixed.wav
All is well in Hooville again.

My questions are now:

What's up with foobar not giving any indication of an error?

And what is that "a" error and how does it occur and why did it only affect the flac conversion, yet the shn file I had was okay?
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