diff --git a/doc/html/changelog.html b/doc/html/changelog.html
index db1229da..781cbe5d 100644
--- a/doc/html/changelog.html
+++ b/doc/html/changelog.html
@@ -83,8 +83,9 @@
diff --git a/src/flac/decode.c b/src/flac/decode.c
index 32bce8b1..958e3d92 100644
--- a/src/flac/decode.c
+++ b/src/flac/decode.c
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ typedef struct {
FLAC__bool abort_flag;
FLAC__bool aborting_due_to_until; /* true if we intentionally abort decoding prematurely because we hit the --until point */
FLAC__bool aborting_due_to_unparseable; /* true if we abort decoding because we hit an unparseable frame */
+ FLAC__bool error_callback_suppress_messages; /* turn on to prevent repeating messages from the error callback */
FLAC__bool iff_headers_need_fixup;
@@ -228,6 +229,7 @@ FLAC__bool DecoderSession_construct(DecoderSession *d, FLAC__bool is_ogg, FLAC__
d->abort_flag = false;
d->aborting_due_to_until = false;
d->aborting_due_to_unparseable = false;
+ d->error_callback_suppress_messages = false;
d->iff_headers_need_fixup = false;
@@ -1357,11 +1359,26 @@ void error_callback(const FLAC__StreamDecoder *decoder, FLAC__StreamDecoderError
{
DecoderSession *decoder_session = (DecoderSession*)client_data;
(void)decoder;
- flac__utils_printf(stderr, 1, "%s: *** Got error code %d:%s\n", decoder_session->inbasefilename, status, FLAC__StreamDecoderErrorStatusString[status]);
+ if(!decoder_session->error_callback_suppress_messages)
+ flac__utils_printf(stderr, 1, "%s: *** Got error code %d:%s\n", decoder_session->inbasefilename, status, FLAC__StreamDecoderErrorStatusString[status]);
if(!decoder_session->continue_through_decode_errors) {
- decoder_session->abort_flag = true;
- if(status == FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_UNPARSEABLE_STREAM)
+ /* if we got a sync error while looking for metadata, either it's not a FLAC file (more likely) or the file is corrupted */
+ if(
+ !decoder_session->error_callback_suppress_messages &&
+ status == FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_LOST_SYNC &&
+ FLAC__stream_decoder_get_state(decoder) == FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_SEARCH_FOR_METADATA
+ ) {
+ flac__utils_printf(stderr, 1,
+ "\n"
+ "The input file is either not a FLAC file or is corrupted. If you are\n"
+ "convinced it is a FLAC file, you can rerun the same command and add the\n"
+ "-F parameter to try and recover as much as possible from the file.\n"
+ );
+ decoder_session->error_callback_suppress_messages = true;
+ }
+ else if(status == FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_UNPARSEABLE_STREAM)
decoder_session->aborting_due_to_unparseable = true;
+ decoder_session->abort_flag = true;
}
}