hello
Not really a problem, just curious.
Why, when doing a boot scan, do a goodly amount of my MP3’s
get identified as .FLAC files?
I’m sorry but that doesn’t explain why something that is non existant
is identified as a FLAC file
colour me stupid
aha…sorry, thought you wanted to know what it was ;D
What exactly do you mean by “identified”?
The boot-time scanner isn’t particularly curious about media files - neither MP3 nor FLAC, so it just prints their filenames…
as it runs through the files they all end in .mp3 or .flac
Well, the boot-time scanner shows whatever the operating system gives it - it doesn’t perform any format detection and change the name accordingly.
So if it shows the .flac extension in the progress line, then the file really has the FLAC extension. (Whether it’s really FLAC compressed, or rather MP3, it’s a different question - if both extensions are associated to the same player, it would probably work transparently, because the player wouldn’t care about the name/extension, but rather about the format, so it would play both, even if named incorrectly).