[SOLVED] FLAC transcode OK, but no sound on some files

[MikeLegit]

I am having problems with flac files on my QNAP box. Most of them work fine however a small handful do not. On my Ubuntu system they all work flawless so I know it's not a file problem. Also I have looked at permissions and even moved the files to a new directory with no luck. Also tried chmod -R 777 on the directory to be sure. Looking at the logs there are no indications anything is wrong. It's almost like it never reaches the output pipe to subsonic.

Anyone have any clues as where to search for more info?

Logs where it doesn't work:

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[4/1/13 2:14:40 PM GMT]   INFO   PlayQueueInputStream   admin listening to "2011 - Here for a Good Time/04 - Poison.flac"
[4/1/13 2:14:40 PM GMT]   DEBUG   TranscodeInputStream   Starting transcoder: [/share/MD0_DATA/.qpkg/Subsonic/home/transcode/ffmpeg] [-i] [/share/MD0_DATA/Music/Test/2011 - Here for a Good Time/04 - Poison.flac] [-ab] [128k] [-v] [0] [-f] [mp3] [-]

Logs where it works using the same settings as above:

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[4/1/13 2:15:25 PM GMT]   INFO   PlayQueueInputStream   admin listening to "Collective_Soul--2007--Afterwords--Orig/01-New Vibration.flac"
[4/1/13 2:15:25 PM GMT]   DEBUG   TranscodeInputStream   Starting transcoder: [/share/MD0_DATA/.qpkg/Subsonic/home/transcode/ffmpeg] [-i] [/share/MD0_DATA/Music/Alternative/Collective.Soul/Collective_Soul--2007--Afterwords--Orig/01-New Vibration.flac] [-ab] [128k] [-v] [0] [-f] [mp3] [-]

Additionally, running from the command line it works fine. The mp3 plays fine:

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/share/MD0_DATA/.qpkg/Subsonic/home/transcode/ffmpeg -i /share/MD0_DATA/Music/Test/2011\ -\ Here\ for\ a\ Good\ Time/04\ -\ Poison.flac -ab 128k -v 0 -f mp3 Poison.mp3

ffmpeg version info:

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# /share/MD0_DATA/.qpkg/Subsonic/home/transcode/ffmpeg
ffmpeg version 1.0 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Mar  1 2013 04:09:45 with gcc 4.1.3 (GCC) 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)
  configuration: --arch=i686 --cpu=i686 --target-os=linux --disable-yasm --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl [b]--enable-libmp3lame[/b] --enable-nonfree --extra-ldflags='-L/root/daily_build/3.8.x/Model/TS-469/build/RootFS/usr/local/medialibrary/lib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/medialibrary/lib' --extra-cflags='-I/root/daily_build/3.8.x/Model/TS-469/build/RootFS/usr/local/medialibrary/include -D_GNU_SOURCE' --prefix=/root/daily_build/3.8.x/Model/TS-469/build/RootFS/usr/local/medialibrary
  libavutil      51. 73.101 / 51. 73.101
  libavcodec     54. 59.100 / 54. 59.100
  libavformat    54. 29.104 / 54. 29.104
  libavdevice    54.  2.101 / 54.  2.101
  libavfilter     3. 17.100 /  3. 17.100
  libswscale      2.  1.101 /  2.  1.101
  libswresample   0. 15.100 /  0. 15.100
  libpostproc    52.  0.100 / 52.  0.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'


[MikeLegit]

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[MikeLegit]

Since I stumped the community, here is the answer. I finally figured it out now that I've had some time to play with it.

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flac -d *.flac

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flac -8 *.wav

Done! Now they play properly. Something goofy with the encoder process which this fixed. It had me stoopified because on a Ubuntu system they played fine. I guess this fixes it.