When i try to play a recently added FLAC file it shows me an error “Error playing media, ensure that your player supports it”. It only happens for one song and when i try to play that song it keeps loading and gives me that error.
If i play any other song while the error song is loading it throws the same error for other songs too. If i stop the song and start fresh, rest of the songs play properly except that one song.
So since it was assigned by Google to someone who usually don’t work on the issues, I’ve made more tests and the file is indeed invalid.
flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `flac' for details.
Teminite - Stardust In The Universe.flac: *** Got error code 0:FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_LOST_SYNC
Teminite - Stardust In The Universe.flac: ERROR while decoding data
state = FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ABORTED
So there’s very little chance that they workaround that, like some other plays maybe do.
Closing this as invalid file.
Thank you for your help! I have been following the Github repo notifications out of curiosity I will try to modify or experiment with the file and see if it works and report back here
Audacity is mainly a music editor, not a converter.
You can use the flac cli tool to test if your .flac files decode without errors.
For your example song:
flac -t "Teminite - Stardust In The Universe.flac"
Personally I use flacr, which is a python script I wrote to recursively verify and recompress .flac files with the latest decoder while setting a fixed padding and also calculating and storing replay gain tags.
I will try to modify or experiment with the file and see if it works and report back here 