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Old 2005-05-27, 06:13 AM
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Re: Shntool frontend

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I know FLAC is a loss-less encoder but if I had a FLAC already and decoded to WAV then encoded back to FLAC wouldn't that just make the audio worse, or no?
I'm still far from knowledgable about this stuff but I'd think that since flac is lossless, converting it to wav (the uncompressed version), and then back to flac, it should still be lossless - and no degradation to the sound would appear, though the finger print would be different betwen the two flac versions if you SBEfix'ed it in the middle of the conversion process.

EDIT: BTW, I'm refering to the "FLAC > WAV > SBEfix > FLAC" process, NOT the "FLAC > SBEfix > FLAC" process - I'm not sure about that one. I don't think it would compress more and I'm really not sure if the SBEfix would be "allowed" or even possible, since it's compressed.
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Old 2005-05-27, 06:49 AM
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Re: Shntool frontend

I love Speek's frontends! I have no trouble with command line but this certainly speeds up the process a lot. I just (re)checked something like 1500 SHN, APE and FLAC files for SBEs with a couple of mouse clicks
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Old 2005-05-27, 07:19 AM
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Re: Shntool frontend

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So basically, can I do -- FLAC > SBEfix > FLAC?
Yes, you can.
Drag and drop the files in the window that run into each other and try:
shntool fix -o flac <allfiles>

If there is something to fix, the fingerprints will differ from the original ones.

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I know FLAC is a loss-less encoder but if I had a FLAC already and decoded to WAV then encoded back to FLAC wouldn't that just make the audio worse, or no?
No. If you just convert between formats like: Wav>flac>wav>flac>shn>ape>flac(compressionlevel7)>flac(lvl3) the fingerprints and quality will not change.
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Old 2005-05-27, 08:08 AM
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Re: Shntool frontend

Thanks for the help and information, range_hood.
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Old 2005-05-28, 02:47 PM
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Re: Shntool frontend

Before you go and do this, why do you want to fix just one file? Are you sure that's all that needs to be fixed?
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Old 2005-05-28, 03:33 PM
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Re: Shntool frontend

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Before you go and do this, why do you want to fix just one file? Are you sure that's all that needs to be fixed?
I put my files into foobar2000 and I notice that some shows only have a file with a sector bound error.

I only have a few shows that have sbe's in only one file.
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Old 2005-05-28, 04:43 PM
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Re: Shntool frontend

if the SBE is anything but the final track of a disc then padding the end with silence will be a disaster. Also, if the audio is continuous from disc to disc (i.e. end of d1 to beginning of d2) you wouldn't want to pad even the end track of a disc with silence.

can you please post a shntool len check for one/more of these shows?
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