So I recently encoded my entire CD collection (over
7000 songs) to flac and I have found that 18 of them
have a strange problem.� The files are corrupted in
some way.. They will stop playing abruptly in the
middle of the song.� I've attached a listing of the
metadata and you'll see what I mean.� 

You can see that the seek points toward the end have a
bunch of zeros and I'm not sure how they got there.�
The 18 songs that exhibit this problem are some of my
longer tracks, but not all my long songs have this
problem.� I honestly can't confirm if the original
ripped wav was corrupted or not since it has been
converted to flac!� But the CD's play fine and
subsequent ripping works fine.� 
�
Any explanations as to why the data looks this way?
brent...
�

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