Bug#950803: shntool: shnsplit refuses to split 24 bits wav and flac files, 16 bit ok

[Richard Lucassen]

Package: shntool
Version: 3.0.10-1+b1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

$ shnsplit -f test.cue -o flac 16bit.wav
Splitting [16bit.wav] (42:32.651) --> [split-track01.flac] (12:32.000) : 100% OK
Splitting [16bit.wav] (42:32.651) --> [split-track02.flac] (8:49.000) : 100% OK
Splitting [16bit.wav] (42:32.651) --> [split-track03.flac] (9:33.000) : 100% OK
Splitting [16bit.wav] (42:32.651) --> [split-track04.flac] (11:38.651) : 100% OK

$ shnsplit -f test.cue -o flac 24bit.wav
shnsplit: warning: unsupported format 0xfffe (Unknown) while processing file: [24bit.wav]
shnsplit: warning: none of the builtin format modules handle input file: [24bit.wav]
shnsplit: error: cannot continue due to error(s) shown above

A similar problem has been reported before (2014):

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=769585

Richard


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages shntool depends on:
ii libc6 2.29-9

shntool recommends no packages.

Versions of packages shntool suggests:
ii cuetools 1.4.1-0.1
ii flac 1.3.3-1
ii sox 14.4.2+git20190427-1+b1
pn wavpack <none>

-- no debconf information

[Eussoult]

I'm still having this bug, despite having compiled the program from
source with the fixing commit.

"shnsplit: warning: unsupported format 0xfffe (Unknown) while

processing file: [Lisa Lougheed - Evergreen Nights.flac]"

The file is 24bit/96kHz.