24-bit FLACs - only from the beginning!

Hello. COG is great. I hope it just could get even better.

I have big (>1Gb, >2Gb) FLAC files, some are 24-bit (mostly 44.1 kHz?).

I use to archive 2-track recordings. BWFF/AIF to FLAC is done thru xACT (1.59) - using FLAC with '8' (maximum) compression (slow but smaller FLAC file size).

Sometimes Cog can play the (24-bit FLAC) file - if you click on the file or if you play it from it's start - pause also seems to work. If you try to go FF> or <REW to another point, you get high level of noise - just that. With some files, anything you get is noise, no matter what you do.

This was happening mostly with Cog 5 and Cog 6. Suddenly, Cog 6 just got 'crazy', crashing everytime. I trashed both.

Just downloaded Cog 6 r519 (at home, without the big FLACs that I have on the studio) and could reproduce the bug. I generated with AudioTest (1.12) two 30s (very small) AIF stereo 44.1 kHz - one 16-bit, other 24-bit. Made the FLACs with xACT (1.59) as I did on the studio.

The 16-bit FLAC had no problem. The 24-bit FLAC could only be played "from the begining" - or you get just noise.

All FLACs were tested - at home or at the studio - both as FLAC and AIF/WAV, so it seems to be a 'playing' problem - not from encoding (xACT).

Is it a Cog, FLAC or Mac OS (here 10.4.10 - G4/iBook 1.33)?

Sorry but I don't understand anything about unix/source code/binaries...

I'm just a 'software' user.

I really would love to see Cog getting as the best FLAC tool - slim, simple, fast and effective.

Keep on the good work!

all the best,
ave.