oggenc2 troubles with flac

2006-10-04 21:57:57

Oke, I'm at a loss here.

When I try to encode a FLAC file I get

ERROR: Input file "test.flac" is not a supported format

When I decode the file using FLAC -d "test.flac" and encode it again with FLAC -6 "test.wav", oggenc2 suddenly accepts the FLAC file.

Can anyone tell me what is going on? I tried figuring out if the current FLAC files are of a different version, but I checked my EAC settings and they point to the same version FLAC.EXE I am using in the example above.

So the only thing I can think of is that EAC's command line for FLAC is using a parameter that makes the FLAC result incompatible with oggenc2? Here's the commandline:

-6 -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" -T comment="%e" -T "comment=EAC (Secure Mode)" %s

I would really hate to convert all the FLACs to WAV and recompress them with FLAC before converting them to Ogg. That would, uhm , well, suck  hehe ....


Any help would be appreciated.

oggenc2 troubles with flac

Reply #1 – 2006-10-06 10:01:11

Forget about it.

I wrote a script to convert all flacs to wave and back to flac and then convert them to Ogg.

No idea what was wrong.

oggenc2 troubles with flac

Reply #2 – 2006-10-06 10:16:07

Maybe you set EAC option to add ID3v2 tags to FLAC files? I have no other ideas...

oggenc2 troubles with flac

Reply #3 – 2015-03-02 11:32:42

Definitely. Had the same trouble, OggEnc2 can't (refuses to) read flac files with ID3V2 tag (files headers start with "ID3") but only FLAC(FLAC) tagged - starting "fLaC". Remove the tag (or replace with older ver.) and you will be fine.

oggenc2 troubles with flac

Reply #4 – 2015-03-02 20:47:07

Also, why decompress to wav then compress back to flac again before encoding to Vorbis? Just decode to wav and then encode to Vorbis from that.