End of Playlist Flac Files

[Maximilian Kossick]

On Wednesday 07 March 2007, 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.
>
> Suse 10.2
> Amarok 1.4.4.
> --
> Stuart Neill

Sounds like an Amarok bug in the xine engine that we had for a while, but it 
was fixed for 1.4.5. Try upgrading your Amarok.

Max
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