Every once in a while when listening to a q6 1.0 Ogg file i notice a slight blip, if I go back and replay the blip usually it does not reproduce. I use Winamp3. However, this time I found a track where it blips every time. What do you guys think it is or is this just a problem with ogg vorbis or even winamp?

Here is a flac sample, edited down to a few seconds for size, its in the second chorus. Thanks for any help.

Sample

Since you say the 'blip' doesn't reproduce, I'm pretty sure it's not Vorbis' fault. Maybe your system is too slow, or there are too much progs running in the background?

Is that the original wav compressed to FLAC?

Anyway, I hear what sound like ripping errors at about 14s,15s and 17s positions.

no, it is reprodecedable everytime, i decoded that ogg to wav and compressed to flac so it would be the same as the ogg file

if it was a rip error, EAC did not report it with the secure mode and C2 errors on

Don't use EAC's C2 error correction... it's most probably broken with your drive.

Give CDex a try; it uses the Paranoia libraries we developed here at Xiph.Org for 'as close to error free ripping as possible, given that most consumer CDROM drives are the cheapest shit the venor could buy from Taiwan that week.'

(No offense meant to Taiwan; just giving consumers what they want. namely, crap, but cheap crap.)

I was suspecting this.. Why on earth you decoded the ogg and compressed it to FLAC??

Always provide the original! Otherwise there's no reference, people can't verify your findings and developers can't do anything for a possible problem. And people expect the FLAC to be the original, because there's just no reason why you'd provide ogg vorbis-encoded file as FLAC here..