File date order

File date order

Yep - the "broken" flacs worked on my Sonos system (and maybe one of xmms and xine, although I don't remember exactly), but I couldn't convert them to ogg vorbis with oggenc.

Still, you must admit some there's strange voodoo going on with grip creating them broken, and everything working just fine when I cut and paste the "flac" command I catch from grip using "ps" during the encoding. If it's really ID3 prepended that's the problem, then grip must be using a different library for the encoding even though it's executing the same flac command. Hmmm...

In any case, I can't have broken files, so they have to be fixed somehow. I'm rather addicted to the grip workflow after doing 600 discs with it, so next time I need to do a bunch I'll have to at least automate the repair with a script (or go back to the version of grip that worked when I did the 600...).

BTW - while I'm on the subject of being over-the-top with getting correct rips, let me put in a plug for using secure-cdparanoia.py. It's a python script that runs cdparanoia repeatedly on each disc, checking to make sure they read the same each time (or at least letting you know if they don't); I was surprised by how many don't. Also, plextor drives are worth the extra money. There's no better way to be convinced of this than ripping 600 discs a second time because of too many audible pops in the first set.