WARNING: Flac exited with an error ...

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Hi -

Just started using RubyRipper as that I no longer have access to a Windows
machine (and EAC).  Thanks for your work on this; very simple, easy to use
-- nice work!  I run Ubuntu 8.04 and version 0.5.0 of the software.

I am having a problem, however: when ripping a CD (a brand new one, at
that) I get a "WARNING: Flac exited with an error" in the log on some
tracks and no output for about half of the tracks (all in the middle of the
CD).  

Multiple attempts to do the entire CD produces the same error, though the
tracks the error occurs on vary somewhat.  That is, I don't always get this
problem with the same tracks all the time.

Looking at the command line output, flac is throwing this error: "WARNING:
/home/damon/Alison Krauss/temp/track5_1.wav is not a WAVE file; treating as
a raw file
ERROR: for encoding a raw file you must specify a value for --endian,
--sign, --channels, --bps, and --sample-rate"

Most of the time, the tracks it "crashes" on are tracks that have "Error(s)
successfully corrected, 2 matches found for each chunk :)" ... those are
the tracks with three trials (instead of two); however, this is not
*always* the case.  Some "corrected" tracks don't crash it.  Though I
haven't seen any perfect matches have this problem.

I tried ogg vorbis too and it won't encode when flac won't encode.

In one case, with one CD, the first time I ran it half the tracks didn't
encoded (lots of "correction"); the next time I tried the same CD all the
tracks went through with no correction needed.  I am stuck on the Alison
Krauss CD ... so I thought I would ask!

Sorry this was so long ... but not sure what's going on.  I don't know any
Ruby ...

Thanks! 

-Damon

Original issue reported on code.google.com by damont...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2008 at 1:14

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I've got two questions...
(1) Can you test against current svn if it solves your problem? There have been 
quite some 
changes meanwhile.
(2) Does your problem occur with the default settings as well or have you 
changed any 
cdparanoia parameters?

Original comment by rubyripp...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2008 at 10:03

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Hi - 

1. I can try and test against the SVN ... however, I am not really a 
programmer, does
anyone have some simple CLI instructions to get me going ?  I can usually 
figure it
out once pointed in the right direction -- have built from source before but 
can't
remember the svn syntax.  (am on ubuntu 8.04)

2. I didn't change any of the settings, just selected flac and ogg with a click 
... I
did try the debug/verbose options after it started happening but I actually 
didn't
really notice a change ... it wasn't until I ran it via terminal that I saw 
what was up.

Thanks!

PS: gone this weekend, so will have to try it next week. If there aren't 
rubyripper
install instructions from the svn, I will search around and figure it out.

Original comment by damont...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2008 at 11:31

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To use svn is quite simple. You have to install subversion first ofcourse ;)

Just go to the tab 'Source' on this page and copy-paste the shown command in a 
terminal.
Then go into the directory rubyripper and run ./rubyripper_gtk.rb. No need to 
install or 
compile. 

Original comment by rubyripp...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2008 at 11:50

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You are right!  Very easy - I already tested it out using the svn version (only 
took
a second) ... anyhow, I still have the same problem with this CD: "WARNING: Flac
exited with an error..."

And from the terminal am getting the same output saying: "track7_1.wav is not a 
WAVE
file" (get that for each file, obviously the track# changes)

And, again, it seems like this "wave problem" only happens when there is a 
chunk that
doesn't match 2 times, starting trial #3 ... when it gets back to a track where
"Every chunk matched 2 times" the encoding works.  

Damon

Original comment by damont...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2008 at 12:22

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Could you run an svn update and then try again please? I think r237 should fix 
your 
problems.

Original comment by rubyripp...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2008 at 12:47

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I can try that ... 

Sorry I am clueless, but do you mean to run: 

svn update http://rubyripper.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ rubyripper-read-only 

??  I have never really used svn before.

Original comment by damont...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2008 at 3:03

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Just enter `svn update` in the same directory you previously used the svn 
command. This 
will update your version to the latest revision.

Original comment by rubyripp...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2008 at 3:07

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So r241 fixed it.  Was able to burn without an issue.

Thanks!

Original comment by damont...@gmail.com on 22 Jun 2008 at 5:46

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You're welcome :) Thanks for the feedback and the detailled description of your 
bug report!

Original comment by rubyripp...@gmail.com on 22 Jun 2008 at 9:02

• Changed state: Fixed