FLAC troubles - some play but not all

[jrace]

I have noticed a strange problem today (first time playing this album).

When I try to play a particular album encoded in FLAC rockbox trys to play the first song, then jumps to the next album in the file tree. The next album plays with a glitch hitch or snitch.

Strange thing is, I have encoded the two albums exactly the same way. In fact the two discs were encoded one after another on the same computer. Extraction done with EAC on secure mode and then converted to FLAC, both tagged exactly the same.

Both play fine from my computer.

Why would rockbox play one but not the other?

Thanks...

[gozirra]

Were there any CRC errors in the .log (from the rip)?  My ipod is almost exclusively filled with .flac albums and I haven't experienced the problem you just described.

[jrace]

Nope. No errors at all.

I just tried again, no luck

Another wierd thing i noticed:
In the File tree it lists:

Tom Waits - 1985 - Rain Dogs
Tom Waits - 1988 - Big Time
Tom Waits - 1999 - Mule Variations
Tom Waits - 2002 - Alice

It plays Rain Dogs, Big Time and Alice Fine.
When I try to play anything from Mule it jumps back to Big Time.
Then if I press >>| it trys to play the first song in the Mule folder again...
The WPS shows:
(root)
no file!
(root)
Then it shows the file name it is trying to play then jumps back to the Big Time folder.

If I try to play the first song in the Mule folder it will say its trying to play track 2...if I try and play the third song it will say it is tryingti play track 4...etc.

[soap]

Do the problem FLAC files have ID3 tags???
Double check.
RockBox doesn't like it when ID3 tags are present in FLAC files.

[jrace]

AFAIK all my FLACS I created do have ID3 tags. I will recheck the actuall files that are on the ipod when i get home (no cable at work).

If they problem FLACS have ID3 is there an easy way to mass remove them (ie with Godfather or tag and rename)?

[Llorean]

FLACs should have Vorbis Comments. If they have ID3 tags, you should try and see if your program will convert them.

[travishayes89]

so that explains why the Mosters Of Rock festival 1984 bootleg i have when i play a song from the directory 06_Van_Halen the artist slot on the WPS says Van Halen

[Llorean]

travishayes89, that comment made absolutely no sense.

[travishayes89]

if you don't understand it, i don't feel like explaining it, but i do have some tagged FLACs

[Febs]

You make it sound like it's Llorean's fault that you wrote something incomprehensible. 

[Llorean]

There's nothing in here that talks about any of your files displaying things at all travishayes89.

If a file has vorbis comments, they'll show up in the WPS where ID3 tags will for MP3. If the file uses actual ID3 tags, it shouldn't work, because Rockbox does not support ID3 in FLAC.

[travishayes89]

@febs, i wasn't putting blame on anyone, i just don't feel like explaining what i write, cause it leads to a bigger mess

@llorean, thats what i was saying

[Llorean]

I said several things. Which one was what you were saying? That you have vorbis comments and they work, or that you have ID3 tags and they work?

[saratoga]

@febs, i wasn't putting blame on anyone, i just don't feel like explaining what i write, cause it leads to a bigger mess

@llorean, thats what i was saying

Maybe you could ask yourself "Does this make any sense at all?" or "Do people really care about what I'm thinking?" before posting.  If the answer is "No", then maybe you should rework the post, or even not post at all.