Re: Re: Welcome to the "Flac" mailing list
"Dat Head" <[email protected]>
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dd if=$file ibs=1 count=$(($(stat --printf='%s' $file)-2)) of=$file.new of course if you run this on one of the files that doesn't have the extra 2 bytes you're gonna lose something you didn't want to On 11/1/07, Alex Brims <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, we actually worked this out - there were 2 extra bytes doing nothing at > the end of the files. Opening the file in SoundForge and saving it (without > changing it) took off the extra bytes and allowed the file to convert to > FLAC. > > Thanks to everyone who emailed me suggestions. > > Is there a decent program for linux that could automatically take these > bytes off, without running the risk of removing good data? Or is there a > way to get the flac converter to ignore this error and create the file? I'm > running flac 1.2.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4.