End of Playlist Flac Files

[Stuart Neill]

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 01:18, Stuart Neill wrote:
> I've occasionally noticed that an encoded track would stop playing slightly
> early (by roughly 0.25 - 0.5 sec). I had always put this down to some
> encoding mistake on my part or faulty CD's. It's only particularly
> noticeable on material recorded in the 1950's when the tunes of the time
> did tend to end abruptly and the recording engineers did not allow much
> time for the last note to decay.
>
> I came across one such track today. I was surprised to find however that
> the sound was only truncated when the track was played either singly or as
> the last track on the playlist. (i.e. moving the track to the middle of a
> playlist restored the sound of the missing ending). Re-encoding the track
> from the original CD as both a .wav and a .flac shows that only the flac
> file produces this truncated effect. The file plays without incident in
> Kaffine.
>
> I don't know if this is a Xine problem, an Amarok problem or is down to my
> antique computer but would be interested to find out.
>
After a little more tinkering, I've discovered that the problem is greatly 
reduced if I set the gap between tracks back to the 2 sec default. I had been 
using a value of 0 ms. Still don't know why this is only a problem on the 
last playlist item however.

-- 
Stuart Neill