Audacity 3.4 Only imports the first 39 minutes of a long FLAC file

[chuckkilly]

I upgraded to Audacity 3.4.2 Yesterday and tried to import a 59 minute FLAC file.

Audacity showed the length to be about 39 minutes, I had a heart attack thinking that I had cut the recording short but the original file is intact.

I am on Windows 11 Home running Audacity 3.4.2, I downgraded to 3.4.1 and had the same issue. I reverted back to 3.3.3 and that is working properly. If it is helpful I can try with 3.4.0 to see if that is an issue as well

[DVDdoug]

I’d guess there’s something “imperfect” about the FLAC…

You can (probably) convert it to WAV with Kabuu Audio Converter (or something similar) as long as the WAV doesn’t end-up more than the WAV maximum of 4GB.

As long as it’s not high-resolution and/or multi-channel it shouldn’t be that big. (As far as I know, WAV is the only format with an “artificial” size limit.)

[chuckkilly]

So I confirmed that this also happens in Audacity 3.4, and it seems like the problem happens when the file has an odd numbered bitrate

The files I’m importing are output from a program called BUTT(butt (broadcast using this tool) download | SourceForge.net). Some of them can be imported fine, others get truncated at some point. A commonality I’ve noticed with the files that get cut is that they have odd numbered bitrates for instance (787kbps)

I wonder what would have changed in the importing logic between 3.3 and 3.4 that would make this stop working