<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I think the only encoder the abcde uses for flac is the flac command line encoder. I'm not familiar with the command line options for it but you can read about them here:<br><br><a href="https://xiph.org/flac/documentation_tools_flac.html">https://xiph.org/flac/documentation_tools_flac.html</a><br><br>In your .abcde.conf file there is a FLACOPTS setting. I imagine you can add any flac-specific options there.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 8:33 AM Michael Hui <<a href="mailto:mmyhui@gmail.com">mmyhui@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">This gap of silence only occurs on the first cut of a specific CD, very close to the start. Other CDs don't do that on the first or any other cut. This problematic first cut where the gap occurs features only the cellos playing in unison, which I doubt is challenging for the encoding algorithm.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I have tried to pass the quality flag to the encoder, but I don't know where to find the docs for the encoder since I don't know which encoder is being used. I thought it might be ffmpeg but I am not sure at all.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Maybe the album artwork embedding process has messed it up? I can upload the wav and flac files for that first cut to Google Drive if there is interest in debugging it that way.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Log attached.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Command I used to run:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font face="monospace">abcde -o flac:"-q 0",wav -p -V -j 7 -B -k 1-2 |& tee abcde.log<br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Version query:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font face="monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font face="monospace">This is abcde v2.9.4-DEV.<br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thanks for your help.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">--</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Michael Hui</div></div></div>
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