Bugzilla – Bug 4938
Add support for FLAKE file format (FLAC offshoot)
Last modified: 2009-11-18 06:25:10 UTC
(submitted by Support / DanE ... ref#070414-001019) User has music collection ripped to FLAC using WinAmp. The files will play in WinAmp but not in Squeezebox. They play choppy and skip a lot. I've tested some sample files here and I find the same thing that they play choppy, although I used Foobar2000, not WinAmp. Unchecking FLAC built-in decoder and forcing a transcode to WAV plays them flawlessly.
Created attachment 1912 [details] First file attached -- skips around 0:55 and beyond
Created attachment 1913 [details] 2nd file attached -- skips immediately and throughout
Thanks for the samples, Dan. That makes it easy to reproduce.
This may be similar to bug 4886.
The included samples are 44khz/16bit
According to metaflac these are Flake files. More information here: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=45013&view=findpost&p=463073 They probably take more power to decode then normal FLAC files.
Here is a better link about Flake: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=54361&view=findpost&p=487119
If there's a great deal of interest in supporting FLAKE files, users can vote for this bug.
I predict this is going to be an issue. I've gotten more customer tickets say "Can't play my FLAC files ripped with WinAmp". I've downloaded WinAmp to see if they even identify they use FLAKE instead of FLAC. And their decoder options read: "FLAC Encoder (Flake SVN r117)". So yes they do state it, but no it's likely not obvious to the end-user.
I find it disappointing that WinAmp allows its users to create non compliant FLAC files without warning. According to the link I posted in Comment #7 this will be addressed in the next version of WinAmp.
Reassigning Squeezebox firmware bugs to Felix.
This has completely faded away from Support's radar. Either WinAMP changed how it's using FLAKE, or dropped it altogether. Closing as WONTFIX.