Hello everybody, new to the forum. I have re-installed on my new Mac and I just ripped a vinyl with Sound Studio. When I open the Flac file in Audacity to edit it, it only shows 20 minutes of it while the Audio is 50+ minutes long. I never have experienced such a problem with previous versions on my old Mac.
This is frankly driving me nuts. Can someone Help? Thanks in advance.
The FLAC is probably somehow corrupted or “imperfect”.
I’m a Windows guy, but does the whole thing play in another application?
If so, you might be able to fix it by converting it to WAV. Apple Music or iTunes may be able to do that, or you can try a 3rd-party application… Sometimes you can “convert” to the same format and the new file will be OK, depending on what’s wrong.
Hi there, thanks for the answer. I am honestly not very convinced this is the reason, it plays in full in VLC, Music and similar apps, and also on older version of Audacity which I still have on my old Mac. I used the old Audacity to correct it (audio-wise with EQ etc) and then converted to MP3 and then it works just fine. Could it be that it is a bug of the newest version? In any case, I worked on it on the older Audacity version, rather frustrating to move files from one Mac to the other, but then work was done anyway.
Thanks for your reply. Best regards,
Of course it’s just a guess… But FLAC is pretty mature and stable,
As an experiment you can convert the Mp3 to FLAC and if the new FLAC opens completely that’s an indication that there’s something “different” with the old FLAC.
…I just remembered someone having trouble with FLACs that have non-standard metadata (maybe ID3 tags instead of Vorbis Comments). Some software may be OK with that and other software not.
Your original FLAC file might be corrupted when uploading, as DVDdoug said you can use Apple Music or iTunes to convert FLAC to WAV. For me, I always use the 3rd-party application, Macsome Music One. It has a free music converter, which lets you convert between FLAC, MP3, M4A, WAV, OGG, and AIFF formats with original quality.
I just realised that this issue is uncannily similar to the one posted at this link: Incomplete audio. Could they have the same cause? Or the same resolution?
Mark B
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