This is related to an old audio tool called shntool, which can perform various useful functions on wav and compressed audio formats, including flac.
The shntool "len" (length) function produces a report with various properties of a wav or flac format audio file. One useful property is whether the audio file ends on a CD sector boundary or not.
When running shntool on flac format files, the length function is broken on all flac audio files encoded using flac versions later than V1.3.2. It appears the output format of the flac utility changed after V1.3.2, so shntool doesn't recognize it, and the "length" output file has just a header, and no data.
Can anyone tell me what changed in the flac format after V1.3.2?
shntool is not in active development any longer, although the source code is still available on Github, so it should be possible to fix and recompile it.
This is related to an old audio tool called shntool, which can perform various useful functions on wav and compressed audio formats, including flac.
The shntool "len" (length) function produces a report with various properties of a wav or flac format audio file. One useful property is whether the audio file ends on a CD sector boundary or not.
When running shntool on flac format files, the length function is broken on all flac audio files encoded using flac versions later than V1.3.2. It appears the output format of the flac utility changed after V1.3.2, so shntool doesn't recognize it, and the "length" output file has just a header, and no data.
Can anyone tell me what changed in the flac format after V1.3.2?
shntool is not in active development any longer, although the source code is still available on Github, so it should be possible to fix and recompile it.