@Joerg Mueller (nexyon), all buildbots should be up, and both 2.79 and latest buildbots are supposed to have sndfile enabled. So think the issue can be considered fully resolved now.

@Joerg Mueller (nexyon), think so. Will try to get buildsbots running later today.

Hey @Sergey Sharybin (sergey) I just checked the build bots, while the 64 bit linux builds still fail, I checked both 32 and 64 bit and they now both have WITH_CODEC_SNDFILE as ON. So we can consider this resolved?

@Joerg Mueller (nexyon), let me finish getting buildbot up and running again (stupid nvcc crashes on sm20/sm21 kernels, keeps time to get past that to get fresh builds). If the new buildbot will work, i think we can consider the issue as resolved.

Thanks @Sergey Sharybin (sergey) ! With libsndfile disabled I can reproduce the error with ffmpeg.

@Joerg Mueller (nexyon), buildbot/release environment was silently ignoring sndfile. Making tweaks now to enable it back (as per blender_full.cmake).

I just saw that the buildbots build without libsndfile, so the cause could/should be ffmpeg. Do you build with libsndfile @Carlo Andreacchio (candreacchio) ?

Ok I can reproduce the bug with a buildbot build, but it's not a debug build, so it's hard to track down the error. @Sergey Sharybin (sergey) can you help? Which linux is the buildbot running and which ffmpeg version? Is it a self built one? Can I get it somehow?

Ubuntu 17,04
Official build bot - rBb94a433ca34
Self built - rBe4762980840 (this just reports an error loading the flac, not same error as above)

I can't reproduce this bug, can you tell me which distribution and version you are on and how you get blender? Official builds, distribution builds or self built?

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Loading windows created flacs back in on Linux blender are correct length

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Alright. Thanks for helping.

As long as the sound works, I'm fine :)

That's always seemed to work. Just with the error messages occurring, I figured something could be wrong that I couldn't notice.

Did you also open a sound file and try to play it? For example in the video sequence editor? If it works, you can just ignore those messages...

Didn't know about that file, though I wasn't expecting it to be outside of a folder. Anyways, I made the change and all that happened is that the error changed, but still exists.

Of course windows also can be configured. You have to edit the file %AppData%\alsoft.ini

It doesn't seem to as I tested it before creating this (as far as I can tell anyways). As for the rest, if my system was linux, I could check that to see, but I don't think there is a configuration for a windows system. As for the functions, I've only ever seen those errors from Blender.

Does this actually affect your audio output? The messages don't sound like they would affect audio working.

Okay, then I'm closing this.

I think this may have been a false alarm.
You can try it just to make sure, but everything seems to be working now.
I'm starting to think it may have been an issue with my computer's Audio that just needed a reboot.

What files are you needing because this occurs regardless of what is used. Doesn't matter if it is a factory clean install or not, a first run or a load.

In order for us to be able to reproduce we need files that are failing.

With respect to enable/disable, we could make the following change: Add a choice between enabled, disabled and automatic and for automatic determine whether the scene has sound or not and enable automatically in that case. The choice of codec is a different problem, but a default codec for each file format shouldn't be difficult to choose.

"My purpose is to enable a common/ universal audio codec by default e.g. .mp3"

hi, any activity here? seems valid & agreed upon? Are there actions to take yet?

More than a week without answer : closing.

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Can not reproduce.
Works well here (ubuntu 14.04)

Sound File :). Sorry I thought that I added it to blend aleready

You didn’t provide sound file. Please provide it, or pack it into .blend

Cool will archive the report then, thanks for the report!

Tried it out to be 100% sure (not that there'd be anything left to still cause this issue) and can verify that blender quits normally when using -noaudio.
Thanks again everyone. :)

just use -noaudio and you should be fine.

Oooh, nice! Thanks!

Hmm, sounds like a problem of OpenAL/pulseaudio, so I guess there's nothing I can do here. It works fine for me, but then again I don't have pulseaudio even installed. ;-)