This is has been driving me insane. Quick synopsis of history.
- 2 Years ago i ripped my collection of 1500 cds with EAC into FLAC format for archive. All files worked without error.
- 1 year ago I used a program, to help semi-automatically tag them. Afterwards ~30-40% of ALL tracks had audio glitches in them (sounded like a skip or actually another part of the song briefly injected into the first 2 minutes of the track). This sadly has led me for the last 8 months to have to listen to at least 2 minutes of all 1500 CDs and re-rip the ones that had glitches.
- As I re-ripped the audio cds above with EAC again, i was also adding cover art with Media Center 16.
- 4 Days ago i purchased a random new FLAC file online. Added cover art to file with MC, played through 6 times and it worked perfectly. Last night i tried to play it and it skipped. I tried playing it in multiple apps..same deal. In frist 2 minutes multiple skips. I opened the file in SoundForge and saw that were the glitches were the file itself has actually been altered!!! There is a micro seconnd silence gap where it skips.
- One thing i noticed this issue ONLY happens with FLAC files. None of my MP3 or OGG files have ever had this happen to them.
I'm so afraid now that all the cds i've tracked might have this happen to them. I don't know what to do. I cannot imagine what is causing this. It seems that somehow MC is altering the files. If anybody has any ideas please share
General System Info:
Quad Core Intel
Windows 7 x64
8GB Ram
M-Audio Delta AP 192 sound card
MC Output - WASPI Event Style
FLAC/MP3 Music Archive device = USB 3 Western Digital external drive.