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Topic: Flac Encoder shutting down before encoding Help! - (Read 3 times)
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yada
Member  From:
Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 15
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Hi,
Im using AG with external Flac encoder. AG first rips the song to wav and then calls the Flac.exe encoder, the encoder command screen comes up and then closes immediately without doing anything. Does someone have any insights as to why this is happening?
Many Thanks in advance.
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Tomb
Moderator  From:Hackney, East London
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 1481
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Sounds like there is something wrong with your argument. What string are you using?
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bascule
Member From:
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 76
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I have the exact same problem. I'm a long-time AG user, previously ripping direct to OGG without any problems.I ripped a whole album to FLAC, using the latest version (FLAC 1.1.1) as an external encoder and the default command line in AG (just tagging info, basically).
About one-in-three of the tracks were encoded and none had tag info. I then changed from rip-and-encode at once to rip all to WAV then encode all. This time I got all tracks encoded, but a lot of the tag info was truncated or missing. I also tried variations of using STDIN/OUT without any greater success. This is so frustrating, as I love AG and so wanted to use it for FLAC as well as OGG but I can't afford the time to check and fix tags every time. It seems to me to be a mis-match in timings or sequencing/scheduling between AG and flac.exe Can anyone help fix this problem? EDIT: I have searched this board and others and have found references to the problem, but no solutions. I've also picked up some hints which I'll try, but I think the problem is perhaps more software/hardware incompatibility than anything else. Anyone got a work-around or fix? [This message has been edited by bascule on 14 January 2005 @ 02:21]
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Tomb
Moderator From:Hackney, East London
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 1481
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I think this is a bug in Audiograbber as I believe it's the way Audiograbber sends the information to the encoder. It also happens when using FAAC. I will raise with jackie.In the meantime rip your waves as normal and use a frontend to encode and tag your files. These ones are pretty good. Universal Front End
Multi Frontend
FLAC Frontend
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bascule
Member From:
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 76
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Thanks for that response. It certainly gives the appearance of an interface error.I'll look into FLAC frontend, which I had already tried, but seemed to have difficulty understanding the tagging syntax. After a further search on the board, I think I might have understood it now. It's good to find an active forum for help of this nature 
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Tomb
Moderator From:Hackney, East London
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 1481
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You need to download tag to use with both the FLAC and Multifrontend. However Universal Front already has it as well as all the codecs.tag can be downloaded from here
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bascule
Member From:
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 76
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Thanks to Tomb for your help. I've got it completely sorted now.Of course, as is mentioned elsewhere in the forum, it would be really good to either fix the bug or get FLAC working as in internal encoder
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jpierce
Junior Member From:
Registered: Jul 2005
Posts: 2
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See my reply in another thread
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