XXHighEnd

XXHE does not like my new violin concert!

folder: G:\FLAC\CLASSIC\The Romantic Violin Concerto (Hyperion)\Volume 1 - Saint-Saëns

I think is due to the special characters.

Well, it should. But I will try to mimic that.
Peter

Peter,
I'm getting more and more of these today. Also on some italian tracks that have no special characters.

examples:
G:\FLAC\ITALIAN\Matia Bazar\Profili Svelati (2005)\02 Che sara di noi.flac

After this, the track name is usually STUCK in the playlist (clear removes all but that track) and i have to close xxhe and clear again.

Well, please tell me what you changed !
I for sure did not change anything ...  :)

Nothing. Is new music ;)

Can't it be that this happens at playing FLACs ? (while before you hardly did)

The error itself is recognizeable, but for me this means "strange" combinations of start-stop-volume change at Unattended, and those kind of things.
Maybe you changed such a "procedure-like" thing lately ?

This happens playing flacs, yes. I play almost only flacs. Before i was testing with other pc where there were only some old mp3.
I didnt change the volume when playing those files, though.

Maybe I can send those two files and u can check?

Let me first ask : when you have this (Saint-Saëns could be the example)  is it repeatable ? I mean, will it just be impossible to ever play such a track ?

If so, I recall that the FLAC to WAV conversion can error and no message is shown (while it should). So, it can be the easy problem of wrongly encoded FLAC files !
Also note that this problem will have started the other way around : at FLAC encoding (so, from WAV to FLAC) an error may have occurred, and it needs some special attention of the programmer using FLAC to mention that. In the mean time, the FLAC file is just there, but contains the error, that by itself disallowing decoding.

Note : XXHighEnd itself can create such a situation (IIRC) at mass encoding; an error will show up, but encoding continues, leaving the judgement of what happened to you, and (again IIRC) the ouput file is there. But it is wrong ... (and you should have tried again, throw it away etc.). Whether such a situation is incurred by a bug in the FLAC program or whether it is just a special situation FLAC encoding can't deal with, I don't know. But I myself do have a few files which won't allow FLAC encoding ...

Yes, repeatable.
So, a solution is that i try to re-encode the file. In that case i cant because i downloaded it, but another example i can re-encode.

Hi Peter,

I'm re-organizing my library, which involves moving some folders to another drive.
I have issues with some albums in wav, that xxhe does not like to recognize in the library, and only in the library.
If i drag the single files they are played fine and also the album art is shown (!).

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They appear with white text. if i do "show original location"
ta-da! unhandled exception (see pic 4c).

if i try to play them (double click), a window error appear, see pic 4 and 4b.

How to fix it?

Telstar, I'm afraid this is all my fault because I never really finished the Library stuff on this matter (moving / deleting), and in the end the Library entries are still there, but point to non-existing locations by now.

I know this is a pain to get right, but it just is not finished (now you must delete those old Library entries manually ... not difficult by itself of course, but still a pain).
:sorry:

Peter

Yes, i will do. If you tell me how :)

Depends on what you did. But the worse is when you moved originals to another location. In that case the Galleries created from it earlier should be deleted, and from the originals new Galleries should be generated. The latter is no problem, but when the first is in the middle of a Gallery comprising of other originals as well ... PAIN.

Anyway, the last thing I am telling you is "this is no problem". I am sorry ...

I dont have the "galleries" files anywhere. What if i remove the music folder and let it recreate it?

The Galleries folders are created by XX (on your command) and contain the meta data with .mta files ...

If you didn't (order for Galleries) I misunderstood the whole subject. I will look into it better tomorrow. :sleeping:

Where are they supposed to be?

Before making it too difficult ... I now see in your error-4 picture that you stuffed "(WAV)" in the name; is that correct ? if so, that for sure creates problems, probably this one.

If you had created Galleries I think you would know. But if so, they are just normal folders on the drive you created the Galleries. For that matter, your error-4 picture may show a Gallery root of FLAC (but I can't see whether it's a Gallery or a real music folder), and that FLAC folder would just reside on disk.

Let me know about the (WAV) thing ...
Peter

The (WAV) is either in the artist folder (in which are the albums) or after each album. It's there to remind me to convert them to flac and then edit the tags.

If i do the conversion first, this problem will disappear? Because i have to do it sooner or later :)

I removed the "()" and now they are working :)