Re: --skip and --until with total sample count of 0

Am 18.06.25 um 08:21 schrieb Martijn van Beurden:
> Op di 17 jun 2025 00:11 schreef Stefan Oltmanns <[email protected]>:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed the flac decoder has checks to disable the use of --skip and
>> --until if the total sample count is 0.
>> Why that?
> 
> I've had to fix quite a few cases of undefined behaviour that were
> related to skip and until. The code is quite messy actually. I'd
> rather get rid of it completely, also since FLAC isn't meant as an
> edit tool (editing is not lossless and all) but I know some people
> depend on it. I'm pretty sure there are still some ugly bugs hiding in
> there.

Unfortunately there is no flac edit tool I know of that can do that. I 
do not mean a tool that accepts flac as input and will decode it before 
starting any edit, that is highly unpractical if you have a 200GB flac 
file and need only the first 0.1% of it.

> 
> You could submit a pull request (or send a patch so I can do it) but I
> expect the CI will find something wrong with it. We could still try it
> anyway.

Great, I will do that.

Best regards
Stefan

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