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OggZealot
Hi,
I just passed my full vorbis collection to OggTester which is a GUI for OggInfo & I found several HOLE & TRUNCATED files in it, but by luck I know the guys who created these files so I know that:

1- All files with HOLE were created with EAC+oggenc 1.01 by a friend of mine which suspect she had trouble with bad RAM, I already posted here for this problem a year ago but didn't found a satisfaying answer

2- All files that are TRUNCATED were created with "Easy CD-DA Extractor Ripper for Winamp3 (http://www.poikosoft.com)" but as ALL the files created by this soft are reported "EOS not set on stream 1" by Ogginfo ... so I suspect I just found a bug in this soft, it seems the Ogg files created by this soft are ALL "unclosed" Oggs

so ... I listened carefully to all these HOLE-TRUNCATED files,
NONE of these files sounds damaged or incomplete ...

so with time being familiar with them (it's 1 year I got them on my HD) I had the idea that maybe only the OGG container was damaged & not the vorbis audio stream ...
As I know retagging Oggs rewritte the whole file ... I said to myself that maybe retagging might fix the error by repacking the vorbis stream in cleaner Oggs

so I retagged all with MP3tag, & "oh magic", the files are now reported OK ...

so the questions are?:
- am i right in thinking retagging can fix basic Ogg Container error ?
- how can the container only become damaged & not the audio stream in it ? Is that what you guys call container error resilency ?

... I saw a lot of people complaining here about vorbis comment being slow ...
... it may be slow (personnaly I won't call it slow, just not instantly) but if you can fix container error by retagging, finally it's not that bad afterall ...
kjoonlee
ogginfo will complain if it encounters ID3 tagging.
OggZealot
Oh, I forgot to say that I am 100% sure it is not an ID3 tag issue in any of both case ...
files play normally in players that don't accept ogg with ID3 tags ...

Thx for trying to help, kjoonlee, I am trying to know if I can fix other issues in the same way you can fix ID3 tag issue by retagging, specially issues that seems obviously linked to the container & not with the audio stream ...

I just want to know if it's safe, because I am gonna delete the original files with HOLE or TRUNCATED if I can fix it all that way ...
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