I tried to use your example file to create another FLAC stream of unspecified length, but it failed:
mizar:[/space/music/songs/test] flac -dc filea.flac > filec.wav flac 1.1.2, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005 Josh Coalson flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `flac' for details. filea.flac: WARNING, don't have accurate sample count available for WAVE header. Generated WAVE file will have a data chunk size of 0. Try decoding directly to a file instead. filea.flac: done samples mizar:[/space/music/songs/test] flac filec.wav flac 1.1.2, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005 Josh Coalson flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `flac' for details. options: -P 4096 -b 4608 -m -l 8 -q 0 -r 3,3 filec.wav: WARNING: skipping unknown sub-chunk '�Q' leaving a truncated file. -- can't play .flac files with Rhythmbox in Ubuntu Dapper https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36725 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs