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Title: Possible origin of FLAC file issues..
Post by: sveakul on June 09, 2021, 06:38:42 PM

..if imported already in that state into MusicBee:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-fixes-new-windows-10-bug-corrupting-flac-music-files/ (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-fixes-new-windows-10-bug-corrupting-flac-music-files/)

Title: Re: Possible origin of FLAC file issues..
Post by: hiccup on June 09, 2021, 06:52:41 PM

Have you experienced (or know of) issues that you can now track back to this?
That webpage says you need to use some PowerShell script to fix corrupted unplayable flac files.

Do you think that is indeed necessary, or would it be enough to just update and re-save the 'title' and 'artist' tags in MusicBee?

Title: Re: Possible origin of FLAC file issues..
Post by: sveakul on June 09, 2021, 08:26:33 PM

Never seen it here, but have never used W10 to tag anything which it seems was causing the corruption with FLAC.  Some people were coming up with sporadic playback issues on another forum and wondering if bassflac.dll was to blame but this seems a more likely candidate.

Before using that script I would look at the FLAC files with mp3tag and see if any show ID3 tags instead of/in addition to Vorbis, and remove the ID3.  In cases where ID3 tags on FLAC must be retained due to device compatiblity the re-save you describe may do the trick, otherwise a whole tag removal/replacement should do it also (arrgh!).

Title: Re: Possible origin of FLAC file issues..
Post by: hiccup on June 09, 2021, 08:30:24 PM

Could be a candidate FAQ article: "MusicBee won't play my flac files"  ;-)