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torne:
The maximum attachment size for the forums is 128KB, and flac is not an allowed filetype.
Post it on the internet somewhere and link to it.

bladderhead:
I uploaded it to a share place.  Maybe this works.

http://www.4shared.com/file/CVGVTndv/C2_-_John_McLaughlin.html

saratoga:

--- Quote from: bladderhead on November 16, 2010, 07:05:27 PM ---I uploaded it to a share place.  Maybe this works.

http://www.4shared.com/file/CVGVTndv/C2_-_John_McLaughlin.html


--- End quote ---

Thanks.  Looking at it, thats a pretty screwy file.  Whoever encoded it upsampled it to 192k/24 bit which we don't support and probably won't since its not really possible to get lossless files at that sample rate.  Fortunately, since FLAC is lossless you can pretty easily fix the file by resampling it to something sane (e.g. 48k and 16 bit is sensible for recordings of that era).  As a bonus it'll be almost 8 times smaller. 

saratoga:

--- Quote from: saratoga on November 16, 2010, 07:30:07 PM ---Whoever encoded it upsampled it to 192k/24 bit which we don't support and probably won't since its not really possible to get lossless files at that sample rate. 

--- End quote ---

Actually looking at the file, I think its not that hard to make it work, so I'll add support for it in r28609.  That said, decoding such large sample rates is extremely power intensive compared to normal flac files, so I strongly recommend using sane settings when encoding your files.  You'll get better quality in rockbox, fit way more files on the disk, and add hours to your battery life.   

bladderhead:
Solved.  I used sox to convert it to 24bits and 96khz and the ipod likes it.

Thanks very much.  You are all very clever.

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