End of Playlist Flac Files

[Stuart Neill]

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 16:57, Maximilian Kossick wrote:
> 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.

Good to know. Thank you Max.

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Stuart Neill