FLAC Stream Decoder Error, FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_LOST_S Options

[Zennon]

I'm in the process of backing up 500 CD-DA discs in FLAC format (using EAC). I ran a shell script to test (flac.exe -t; flac version 1.1.1) the 4000 FLAC files on my hard drive so far and found that flac.exe reported errors for 36 files. All errors are the same:

<filename>: *** Got error code 0:FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_LOST_SYNC

The files decompress fine, but now I'm not sure if I got the exact WAVs back. What does this error message mean, and how severe is the error? Moreover, is there a way to avoid it when compressing WAVs to FLAC in EAC?

This post has been edited by Zennon: Jan 17 2005, 00:10

[viktor]

offtopic: what about flake?
"Increased compression and dramatic speedups for both encoding and decoding"
is this supposed to mean that the improvements made by justin have been merged into flac or are these independent changes?

they're independent, flake is for the most part not based on libFLAC.

i see.

i have now located the corrupt files, moved them to the broken dir, and reencoded the old ones with 1.1.4. retested everything, and yet it seems to be fine. i will run tests regulary, and hopefully no further errors appear

btw, may i suggest to make the -V option to be default?

also, id like to thank your work, ive been using flac for quite some time, and i really love lossless (especially coz i collect audio cds and wanna achieve the best quality - what is better then lossless ? :-)

This post has been edited by viktor: May 20 2007, 21:17