[Bug 36725] Re: can't play .flac files with Rhythmbox in Ubuntu Dapper

[Matt Zimmerman]

I tried to use your example file to create another FLAC stream of unspecified length, but it failed:

mizar:[/space/music/songs/test] flac -dc filea.flac > filec.wav

flac 1.1.2, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005  Josh Coalson
flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for details.

filea.flac: WARNING, don't have accurate sample count available for WAVE header.             Generated WAVE file will have a data chunk size of 0.  Try
             decoding directly to a file instead.
filea.flac: done          samples
mizar:[/space/music/songs/test] flac filec.wav

flac 1.1.2, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005  Josh Coalson
flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for details.

options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 8 -q 0 -r 3,3
filec.wav: WARNING: skipping unknown sub-chunk '�Q'

leaving a truncated file.
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can't play .flac files with Rhythmbox in Ubuntu Dapper
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36725