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Cases where -e makes compression worse; does -e really do everything it should?

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Usual reservation: I do not know whether `-e` is even supposed to handle this, and even if it is, I am not saying it is worth the effort of "fixing"...

ReverbNation artist playlist support

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#### Steps to reproduce 1. Make sure letras.com is in the sources 2. Manual search for lyrics 3. Inspect results #### Expected behavior Expected: No hit when letras.com doesn't have...

flac.md: fix "-q" misinformation, and more.

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Hope I haven't messed up how pulls work. Wouldn't be the first time. This intends to fix xiph#816 , the man page wrongly states -q 16 is permitted. I have...

Maxing out the number of PICTURES flac.exe can handle: "ERROR: 2 consecutive FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_END_OF_STREAM events."

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Corner case, surely. Attachment has 1021 pictures, running successive re-encodings with many at the time. Using 1.5.0 for Windows. - Trying to run another flac -f --picture to add one...

Documentation: the "Known bugs" webpage https://xiph.org/flac/documentation_bugs.html

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The only bug listed is a behaviour that has later been changed because it doesn't make sense to even write seekpoints? **flac** hasn't adhered to the tradition of listing known...

Feature cleanup "wish", with whatever priority should be assigned to foreign metadata handling at the 1.5 stage. Myself I think that it is not at the core of what FLAC...

flac seems to write malformed AIFF-C, both none and sowt

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In the course of [testing input file handling after this one](https://github.com/xiph/flac/issues/763#issuecomment-2506831962) - used: 1.4.3 and including https://github.com/xiph/flac/actions/runs/12089446877 which I think is the most recent? Running the following on the attached...

Files that fail --keep-foreign-metadata

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These are WAVE_FORMAT_PCM type files such that the apparent "WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE"-type chunks should be ignored. `flac.exe --keep-foreign-metadata` alters them upon an encode-decode roundtrip. ``` https://www.hifistatement.info/downloads/14-09-01_peterson/Mellow_Tone_16-44.wav https://www.hifistatement.info/downloads/14-09-01_peterson/Mellow_Tone_24-192.wav ``` Two discussions on whether...

flac.md : Some more fixes: errors, language.

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By request, I have not submitted a full proposal, thus some "Everywhere" changes are not at all (yet) implemented everywhere. **Everywhere / general** - boldfaced **flac**-the-tool, capitalized FLAC-the-format - italicized...