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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:
INFO (foo_flaccer) : Encoding finished successfully checked st5: Quote:
4 - tried to convert wav to flac in foobar, no errors reported: INFO (foo_flaccer) : Encoding finished successfully checked st5: Quote:
Checked for SBE and there is one. Plus another error: Quote:
'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:
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:
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? No members have liked this post.
Last edited by feralicious; 2005-04-20 at 02:04 AM. 
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2005-04-20, 12:15 AM
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Re: Experts! Here's a puzzle for you... or maybe just a quesion from me.
And that is why I get nothing else done around here.
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2005-04-20, 03:10 AM
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Re: Experts! Here's a puzzle for you... or maybe just a question from me.
 I'll have to do some playing around with the different encoders and compare .st5s in an attempt to figure out wtf is going on here. I'll try to find some time to do this in the next couple days. I've never got the "a" error and the description is a little cryptic... I bet uhclem knows what that means.
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2005-04-20, 07:21 AM
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Re: Experts! Here's a puzzle for you... or maybe just a question from me.
I want that shn file.
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2005-04-20, 02:03 PM
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Re: Experts! Here's a puzzle for you... or maybe just a question from me.
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 Okay, I'll send it to you... check your pms. No members have liked this post.
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2005-04-20, 03:34 PM
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Re: Experts! Here's a puzzle for you... or maybe just a question from me.
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#7
2005-04-20, 03:44 PM
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Re: Experts! Here's a puzzle for you... or maybe just a question from me.
Playback and record software must process a multiple of nBlockAlign bytes of data at a time. Data written
and read from a device must always start at the beginning of a block. For example, it is illegal to start playback of PCM data in the middle of a sample (that is, on a non-block-aligned boundary). The blockSize specifies the size in bytes of the block to which you would align the sound data. A blockSize of zero indicates that the sound data does not need to be block-aligned. Applications that don't care about block alignment should set the blockSize and offset to zero when creating Audio IFF files. Applications that write block-aligned sound data should set blockSize to the appropriate block size. Applications that modify an existing Audio IFF file should try to preserve alignment of the sound data, although this is not required. If an application does not preserve alignment, it should set the blockSize and offset to zero. If an application needs to realign sound data to a different sized block, it should update blockSize and offset accordingly. No members have liked this post.
Last edited by pmonk; 2005-04-20 at 03:54 PM.
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2005-04-20, 03:55 PM
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Re: Experts! Here's a puzzle for you... or maybe just a question from me.
does Nina every download anything WITHOUT problems?
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DON'T MESSAGE ME FOR RE-SEEDS. I DO NOT DO THEM! AND UNLESS THEY WERE RECORDED THAT WAY, THERE WILL BE NO MORE 16 BIT VERSIONS. No members have liked this post.
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2005-04-20, 03:57 PM
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Re: Experts! Here's a puzzle for you... or maybe just a question from me.
My understanding is a wave file are made up of "chunks" of date aligned in fixed-size blocks to ensure real time recording and playback of audio.
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2005-04-20, 04:02 PM
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Re: Experts! Here's a puzzle for you... or maybe just a question from me.
I spoke about this with feralicious in a pm but I might as well add my 2 cents here, just so that people know this isn't a problem or flaw with FLAC. pmonk has already posted more about the subject than I know, and I expect ssamadhi to have something interesting to say about it when he's finished tinkering with the shn file.
But basically flac produced a different fingerprint because it realigned the data during conversion. However, when decompressing to wav, shorten didn't bother to fix it, so the fingerprint didn't change. That's the reason for the difference. Now I'll leave it to ssamadhi to tell us how this shn file got that way in the first place. No members have liked this post.
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2005-04-20, 04:50 PM
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Re: Experts! Here's a puzzle for you... or maybe just a question from me.
Not having looked at the shn yet, I'd suspect that part of the last sample in the track has been eaten by the truncat
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#12
2005-04-20, 07:18 PM
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Re: Experts! Here's a puzzle for you... or maybe just a question from me.
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And what are you doing in this thread anyway? It clearly said it was for "Experts". 
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2005-04-20, 08:04 PM
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Re: Experts! Here's a puzzle for you... or maybe just a question from me.
it's the curse of FLAC Past. (just a small joke.)
sorry i can't be of more help on this one... No members have liked this post.
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