Comment 23 for bug 491543

Hi Greg,

Unfortunately we are stuck with libsndfile to parse the FLAC metadata
and As far as I know it is onlycapable of parsing Xiph / Vorbis
comments. We hope to address this as early as mixxx 1.9.0 around
December.

Thanks,
RJ

On Tuesday, September 14, 2010, Greg Robinson <email address hidden> wrote:
> I can't seem to do anything with ID3-laden FLACs on 1.7.2 and 1.8.0~beta2 with OS X.
> 1.7.2 doesn't give me any error message; it just fails to load the files.
> 1.8.0~beta2 adds these "special" FLAC tracks to the library (with incomplete/incorrect tags), but tells me that it could not load the requested file when I try to play it.
>
> It's not that big of a deal to strip away the tags in about 30% of my
> library, but this is common enough that it seems reasonable to make the
> decoder support what is no longer standard. Any idea when the more
> tolerant lib will be included in Mixxx?
>
> --
> Some audio files of type "flac" are not found or won't play with drag and drop
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/491543
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