#231 Normalised audio files do not play correctly

[Justin Waddell]

Some audio files are normalised successfully but do not play correctly in the Xena Audio Player. The primary example has been 24bit/96kb broadcast wav files. The flac-encoded versions of these files cannot be played in most audio players, only one (foobar2000) has been found that will play them. However the flac file can be decoded to a wav file and it will then play perfectly. The problem thus seems to be with the flac implementation used by the various audio players. Will probably need to figure out how foobar2000 is managing to play the file, and either use its method or modify the flac code that we currently use appropriately.

[Allan Cunliffe]

Retested Xena-XMl branch (taggged bug-3187760)

Tested in Fedora 14

Supported audio files normalise OK. I did notice that when viewing the file in the Xena Viewer, I couldn't hear the audio (with no error in the console) or the audio could be heard sporadically. This only seemed to be a problem with the player - exporting the file and playing it was OK.

I checked for similar behaviour under Windows 7. The viewer appears to work OK.

[Michael Carden]

To clarify - is it the case that the Xena viewer plays normalised audio files under Win 7 that it won't play under Fedora 14?

[Allan Cunliffe]

Some files play poorly when I try and play them under the Xena Viewer. Happens in Windows and Linux.

Exported, the file plays fine.

Happens with .mp3 and .flac