Audacity Forum

Thanks to you, Gale.

Just to give some news.

Means-while, I have made a clean install of Mac OS 10.9.3, nothing really changes; and today added “Ram memory”. Mavericks jumps and runs now like a snow leopard, and Audacity works fine and smoothly, much better than before.

But the problem of importing big FLAC/OGG files persists.
I have no practice with the Terminal app; I’m not sure to understand your advice, (my english is too poor), and afraid to do a big mistake. So I have not tried it. It’s not really a problem, just a question about the strange behavior of Audacity 2.0.5 in importing this big hybrid Flac/OGG files.

What concernes VLC: since latest upgrading to 2.1.4 I have no more the possibility to transcode in WAV or uncompressed code; don’t know why. That’s what I did with VLC 2.0.8. Perhaps there is something to do in his mysterious advanced settings.

Thanks for your suggestions,
Regards
tobele

tobele wrote:But the problem of importing big FLAC/OGG files persists.
I have no practice with the Terminal app; I’m not sure to understand your advice, (my english is too poor), and afraid to do a big mistake. So I have not tried it. It’s not really a problem, just a question about the strange behavior of Audacity 2.0.5 in importing this big hybrid Flac/OGG files.

OK but I cannot make the crash happen on my Mac machine with a 1 GB "OGG file containing FLAC" written by VLC 2.1.4.

In any case Audacity 2.0.6 when released will either update to FFmpeg 2.2.x or use FFmpeg indirectly through another API (GStreamer). So the behaviour may change in any case.

tobele wrote:What concernes VLC: since latest upgrading to 2.1.4 I have no more the possibility to transcode in WAV or uncompressed code; don’t know why. That’s what I did with VLC 2.0.8. Perhaps there is something to do in his mysterious advanced settings.

In VLC 2.1.4 on Mac I chose the "CD" format then chose WAV encapsulation and FLAC codec. At least I can do that if converting an existing file.


Gale