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Topic: Monkey Audio V3.98 Alpha Buggy ? (Read 2844 times) previous topic - next topic
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Monkey Audio V3.98 Alpha Buggy ?

I have a problem with ape V3.98 alpha:
so far I have transcoded 110gig from various ape files to flac V1.10 CL8
Here is my method:
Decompress:
Official MA Front V3.97 to verify/decompress ape V3.97 files or older version
Official MA Front V3.98a to verify/decompress ape V3.98a
Recompress:
Speek's Flac Frontend V1.7

I have never had any big problem with GUI V3.97 except 2 or 3 corrupted file due to corrupted frame from bad internet transfer which was IMHO a normal ratio on 110gig of files ...

... but on the few V3.98a rips I converted to flac (let's say between 5 & 10 rips at max) I get twice the same error on 2 different rips so I look V3.98a very suspiciously:

1: The V3.98a bad rip MD5 are OK
2: The V3.98a bad rip are OK on verify with GUI V3.98a
3: The V3.98a bad rip are OK on decompress with GUI V3.98a

... so at first look the files are perfect  ... but

when I recompress the wav to flac V1.10 C8 using Speek's Flac Frontend V1.7 I get the following message:

Warning: Skipping Unknown Sub-Chunk "XXX", on each files

So is it a known issue ? Are the files damaged ? Is V3.98a completly buggy ?
Thks for Help

Monkey Audio V3.98 Alpha Buggy ?

Reply #2 –
Thanks for the help Josh

so the audio stream may still be lossless no problem ... ok ... I already read the flac fac some months ago (the flac documentation/website is great) so I was already aware that the decoded file might miss some bits & I wasn't surprised ...

but do you have any idea why it happens so often with MA V3.98a & never (so far to my experience) with MA V3.97 ... I mean ... if the problem is just a small deleted/recreated data header in the wav format ... I should have encounter it more often with V3.97 ... & even with flac/shn/wv/ofr to flac & that has just never happen ... that is weird ? no ?
 

Monkey Audio V3.98 Alpha Buggy ?

Reply #3 –
I guess it could be a corrupted wave file still... if the sub-chunk string looks like garbage instead of some readable string (like "pad " "list" "fact"...) that might be an indicator.

Josh