Error: unable to locate start sample

[stampie]

I happened to spot an error in the minimserver log today

"Error: unable to locate start sample 11328000 in file /volume1/music/Jack White - 2014 - Lazaretto/04 - Would You Fight For My Love - Jack White - Lazaretto.flac"

Simon, just wondering what it means - is the file corrupt?

thanks
Nick

[simoncn]

(27-11-2014 17:16)stampie Wrote:  I happened to spot an error in the minimserver log today

"Error: unable to locate start sample 11328000 in file /volume1/music/Jack White - 2014 - Lazaretto/04 - Would You Fight For My Love - Jack White - Lazaretto.flac"

Simon, just wondering what it means - is the file corrupt?

thanks
Nick

Thanks for letting me know about this.

This either means the file contains some corrupt frames or it indicates a bug in the algorithm that MinimStreamer uses to locate the start position when you skip within a FLAC file that is being transcoded to WAV.

Have you noticed any audible problems when playing this file? Do you recall attempting to do a skip that didn't work? If so, would you be able to reproduce the problem again?

[stampie]

I have played the song in question since I raised the issue, and did not experience any playback problems at all and transition to/from the previous/next track was seamless.

This is a 24/96 file being passed over ethernet, but I'm not experiencing any network issues.

I had a look at the file in soundforge and compared it to another version of the song (from a different source) and I couldn't spot any missing frames or dropouts

The original entry in the log came about when I did a rescan to add a new album. I wasn't playing the JW record at the time. Also, the newly added album was not the Jack White record (which I have had for sometime now). I have tried to recreate the error, but without success I'm afraid.

I will keep an eye out for it and let you know if it reoccurs.

regards
Nick

[simoncn]

(28-11-2014 15:40)stampie Wrote:  The original entry in the log came about when I did a rescan to add a new album. I wasn't playing the JW record at the time. Also, the newly added album was not the Jack White record (which I have had for sometime now). I have tried to recreate the error, but without success I'm afraid.

Thanks for this information. Perhaps the control point was trying to resume the Jack White track from its last known position the last time it was played before you did the rescan (which caused MinimServer to be stopped and restarted). Does this seem possible?