Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] akaiextract loop start <-> loop end

[Kolja K. <ko...@fr...>]

> 
> Looks like data corruption to me. Akai sounds are decades old. On what medium 
> did you have that Akai sound stored on; HD, burned vs. pressed CDROM?
> 
The sounds come from an AKAI-image with looped brass-sounds. I don't really use these, just for testing purpose.
It took me a while to see that the issues I had were not in my gig-creation, but in those wav-files instead...
I managed to use some other wav-files containing loop information, those work as expected.

Since I don't own any other means of testing the AKAI-image, I cannot tell, how they would 'originally' sound when looped.

Data corruption could theoretically be, though I didn't notice any other problems with those files, 
only loop-start and -end and, consistent for all files I tested, those values would, theoretically,
make sense when swapped.
I don't know the details of how the data is stored in that filesystem but would assume it to be a very specific data corruption.
Anyway, as I said, besides for testing my software I don't use these files, so that would have been more of an academic interest to me.

> In general I highly recommend to use a modern filesystem (e.g. btrfs, ZFS) 
> nowadays with appropriate self-healing feature to prevent things like bit 
> rotting [1], especially for long-term storage.

Thanks for the advice, I will definitely keep that in mind!


Cheers,
Kolja