Bug#590752: audacity: can't import "open" FLAC files

[Adrian Knoth]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:57:42PM +0100, Ximin Luo wrote:

>> Looks like this or libsndfile is broken, I'll now investigate closer,
>> just wanted to share the workaround with you.
>>
>> If you like, confirm if it's working for you.
> Yup, this works, thanks :)

[..]

> Just out of interest, is this considered a broken flac file or not? If 

No, it's valid:

http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html#metadata_block_streaminfo

See <36>: "A value of zero here means the number of total samples is
unknown."

> so, maybe I should file a bug with the GNOME sound recorder people too?

It is a bug in libsndfile, I'm therefore reassigning this bug to
libsndfile and CC the maintainer who happens to also be the upstream
author. ;)

Erik, for further information and test files, see this bug report.
Everything else is mentioned in the patch. ;)


Cheerio

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