Comments

craftech wrote on 2/17/2008, 6:41 AM
The 8b update included the following:

Fixed a problem that could cause problems when previewing FLAC files from the Media Manager.

Did you install the update?

Also (and I am guessing here) maybe Vegas won't open 24/96 FLAC files (if that's what you have). Try them at 16/48 and see what happens. Or maybe it's your version of Direct X.

Last idea: Are these copyrighted files? Does Vegas reject it because of DRM issues?

John
bStro wrote on 2/17/2008, 7:22 AM
However, for the life of me it refuses to see any of my 100 FLAC files on my computer.

When you say Vegas "refuses to see" them, do you just mean that the files aren't listed in Vegas' Explorer window or that you actually tried to preview some or add them to the project, and they won't play? If the former, try right-clicking inside the Explorer window and go to View > All Files.

For what it's worth, the computer I'm on right now is a complete FLAC virgin. I just installed the FLAC encoder two minutes ago and downloaded the only FLAC file this machine has ever seen. My Vegas 8 shows FLAC files by default and can play them. My Vegas 6 has to be set to View All Files in order to "see" them but it won't preview them or let me put them on a timeline.

Rob
1marcus4 wrote on 2/17/2008, 4:25 PM
I have Vegas 8.0b installed. I don't have the media manager installed. The files show up in the Vegas Explorer window. When I select one and press the play button, the button visibly depresses but nothing plays.

If I try to drag the file from the Explorer window onto an audio track, I get a red circle with a line through the center, which I think Vegas is telling me it doesn't recognize the file type. The file has a .flac extension and was ripped from a cd by some reputable software.

As I stated before they play very well with dbpoweramp, winamp, and wmp with the flac plugin installed. But Vegas.... NADA!!

The only thing I can think of doing is to download and install flac.exe and test the flac files I have to see what's up.

Mark

1marcus4 wrote on 2/17/2008, 5:12 PM
Okay...
I downloaded, installed, and ran FLAC.EXE in test mode and my flac files tested out perfectly. So...

I don't believe it's the flac files.

Mark