Hey, I'm just ripping all my CDs and while doing so I listened to some of them.
Well, it looks like some of them have errors because the player throws an error in the middle of the file.

I would like to know if there is an easy way to test a whole directory of flac files for errors.

should work if you have the latest flac installed. Just cd to the directory you want to check first. If you have a directory tree try using


from the top of directory hierarchy instead.

It's not quite sure whether it's the encoder or the decoder that's responsible for the errors in your case. Do you have the -V option set in FLAC's command line? If yes, then the issue is likely to be found on the decoding side, i.e. the player's/its FLAC plug-in's one.

It's a problem on the encoder side, maybe it wasn't wise to use dbpoweramp with wine.

Does anybody know the easiest way to get flac 1.1.4 working in ubuntu?
The repos still only have 1.1.2

Nope, sorry, though I'm using Kubuntu as my primarily used OS on this computer myself. I haven't found satisfying alternatives to EAC+REACT2 as well as GordianKnot (for video encoding) yet, hence I stick to Windows XP Pro for video and audio processing. Still searching for decent Linux software, I'd be grateful too if someone helped me out a little.

Yeah

> Does anybody know the easiest way to get flac 1.1.4 working in ubuntu?
The easiest would be compiling it, link it statically and put somewhere in path.

i packaged flac-cvs at rarewares/debian.

it's just the static binaries (flac-cvs & metaflac-cvs) and are 1.1.4+cvs

the -cvs is a suffix added at configure to have both installed without killing each other.


later

Thanks a lot xmixahlx, it works!
Thanks also sbooth for the shellcommands
And also thanks to J.Coalson for flac

Now the only thing left is to find out how to get more lines into the terminal