[Pkg-audacious-maintainers] Bug#514674: audacious: Segfaults when opening ape file

[Luís Picciochi Oliveira]

hmmm... I don't know how hard it would be to make those changes to the
interface, but I'm betting that would be too much of an hassle just
because of this issue.

I have been analysing the file (I have some more ape files that make
this happen, but I'm using this one as a reference for the
discussion), and I can see that mplayer seems to be able to recover
from those errors in a more efficient way. When I listen to the file
on mplayer, this is what I can listen to, starting from position 0:23:

0:23
Sarah should be close, yet her voice fills the studio with
reverberation. The guitar is intimate with a full warm tonality. Bear
in mind that most modern recordings have only artificial depth. So
that they cannot be used reliably to give this important aspect of
reproduction. Here's Sarah.


On audacious, with your patched decoder, this is what I listen:

0:23
Sarah should be close, yet her voice fills the studio with reverberation
0:27  <--SILENCE-->  0:34
most modern recordings have only artificial depth
0:37  <--SILENCE-->  0:39
aspect of reproduction. Here's Sarah.

Apparently, mplayer can recover from the errors and skip them without
any noticeable interference/silence gap on the audio.
I would really like to be able to help some more instead of just
telling you what I would like to have, but I really don't have the
knowledge about the internals of audacious or time to study it to
solve this by myself.