FLAC plugin won't play

Grabbed and installed the plugin from os4depot, tried with tunenet 0.86.34, noting is played.
The plugin shows up in the prefs window, but doesn't start playback.
Is it just me or some known issue

Jack

@Jack

Can you send me a copy of the problem file,
curtyh at talktalk.net

All flac files i tested at the time of writing the plugin worked for me, but ive noticed a newer lib is available and it may be something to do with that.

@Jack

My flac files start playing just fine but then suddenly stop after a few tens of seconds.

EDIT: Should have said I am using Tunenet v0.86.34 and flac plugin v51.3

@Curty

sent, 10x.
Jack

@Jack

Sorry for the late reply, the file only got through to me tonight :(

Just tested and i see the file loads as an MP3 file.
Thats very strange, but then i opened the header of the file and it doesnt include a reference to flac.

This is a header of one of my flac files

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e??4?c???<( reference libFLAC 1.1.0 20030126???Y?$H?D???%???Ӵ??".چo*??/?j?&???cقn n??????CAb????,?2X???g??V?"-Z??2?Y$??25???q?Cp@v`?
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And this one of yours

ID3
_^TIT2Swing GuitarsTPE1%Django Reinhardt & Stephane GrapelliTALB#Le Quintette Du Hot Club De FranceTYER1947TRCK3TCONJazzTENC!Exact Audio Copy (Secure mode)COMMengTrack 3APICf?image/jpg????JFIF



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So im a little confused....

@Curty

fLaC"*?
?B?u??8@?{?(?:??
2????=??&??2??"?>r?)?J=?0?U??7zb??>pn?Efz??LJ??S@?m?Z6??a?w>h?PDo?0?
R reference libFLAC 1.1.0 20030126

found this in your file,
shows it is a flac but it has all this other info infront of it.
The mp3 plugin is picking it up before flac can, so thats a problem inside TN.

@Curty

So it looks like id3tags inside flac break the plugin precendence.
I didn't encode that flac.
Looks like these are id3v1 (afaik, V2 are at the end of the file).
Will try to change it to V2 and see if it helps....


Edit:
The other way around:
v1 is at the end, v2 at the head.
some acrobatics in linux solved the issue:
id3v2 -l * #(to verify presence of both)
ls -1 | awk '{print "id3convert "$1}' | sh #to copy v2 to v1 if needed
id3v2 -d * #(deletes v2 tags only)

id3v1 only files play fine
Stupid me, didn't see the problematic files didn't load as flac in the first place

Now the problem: id3v1 are often too short to contain the data
Maybe id3v2 + file recognition should be fixed?

Thanks a lot,
Jack

@Jack

sounds like a plan,
let me know how it goes. ;)

@Curty

Is there any way to prevent mp3 plugin from blindly picking the id3v2-tagged files?


Jack

@Jack

FLAC with id3 tags is blasphemy, you should use either Ogg container and its tags, or what the flac encoder program offers (-T option of 'flac').

@Thematic

You're right. Vorbis comment is the way. Will see how to convert the existing files (I just got them in this state).

10x for the pointer...
Jack

@Thematic

Indeed, stripping the id3tags left me with vobris commnets that were there in the 1-st place and all's well.
Now Tunenet plays the files and AMuse stil shows the correct metadata.

Jack