[Done] flac skips over samples at the start of a sound

nsstudios · **Joined:** Wed Aug 28, 2019 1:01 pm **Posts:** 112

Hi,

Surprised no one has reported this (or at least I can't find anything related), but there's a long-standing bug with playing flack sounds that makes the flac playing support virtually useless.
Depending on the compression used, pb plays flac sounds with a chunk of audio missing from the start of audio.
My tests with a 44100, 16 bit, stereo flac sound with different compression rates yielded:
With compression of 3-8, my sound loses about 70 ms from the start, and with compression of 0-2, about 20 ms.
The cutting of the start of audio happens both on Windows and MacOS, with the exception of certain compression rates causing MacOS to throw an invalid memory error.
The sounds play fine in other things, and SoundLength() does report the correct length.

Here's a zip file with the source code, and 9 flac sounds, each saved with the compression rate specified in the filename (0-8).

http://nsstudiosweb.com/test.zip

RASHAD · **Joined:** Sun Apr 12, 2009 6:27 am **Posts:** 3843

Hi nsstudios
Every thing looks OK to me
Just I moved UseFLACSoundDecoder() to start

Code:

UseFLACSoundDecoder()
#comp=8
; 3 and above cut the beginning of sound about 60 ms, 2 and below cut it lower (about 20 ms)
InitSound()
LoadSound(0, "test"+#comp+".flac")
Debug GetSoundFrequency(0)
Debug SoundLength(0, #PB_Sound_Millisecond)
PlaySound(0)
Repeat
Delay(1)
Until SoundStatus(0)<>#PB_Sound_Playing

nsstudios · **Joined:** Wed Aug 28, 2019 1:01 pm **Posts:** 112

Thanks, but that did not help.
Here's the demo of how it's supposed to sound vs how it sounds.
I first play the file once in my media player, and then play different variants from 8 to 0 from pb.

http://nsstudiosweb.com/test_demo.mp3

I do not get this behavior with any other media player, or other audio libraries like Bass.

RASHAD · **Joined:** Sun Apr 12, 2009 6:27 am **Posts:** 3843

You are absolutely right
It is clear to me now

Ty1003 · **Joined:** Thu May 14, 2020 10:31 pm **Posts:** 31

Hi.
Yes, I have this problem as well, and it would be great to see it fixed!

Fred · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2020 5:23 pm

Fixed.

nsstudios · **Joined:** Wed Aug 28, 2019 1:01 pm **Posts:** 112

Thank you very much @Fred!

Fred wrote:

Fixed.

Ty1003 · **Joined:** Thu May 14, 2020 10:31 pm **Posts:** 31

Thanks Fred! It'll be nice to be able to use flac sounds again!

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