Beginning of some songs clipped

[Northmen 24]

I just burned a data disc of flac files and the first split seconds of the beginning of some of the songs are missing. However, others play perfectly from start to finish from the same album. I checked the source file and it plays correctly.

Is there an explanation for why this may have happened? Is there a setting that I missed that will ensure that the entire song is transferred to the disc? 

[LIGHTNING UK!]

You burnt them as a data disc?

as in, you have flac files on the disc or you made an audio cd?

if you still have actual flac files on the disc, they’d have been written as-is. No data gets lost. 
 

if you burnt an audio cd, the directshow filters installed on your pc would have handled the conversion into the format required for an audio cd. Perhaps one of those misbehaved. 

[Northmen 24]

I burned them as a data disc.

[dbminter]

If you burned the FLAC files directly to a disc and if the FLAC files play correctly as a source file on your PC and if the FLAC files don't play correctly off of the disc you burned them on, that sounds like a lower quality disc you burned to is not playing back correctly in the device.

 

What device was this disc played on?  Was it a CD disc or DVD/BD?  If this skipping is on a standalone player, have you also tried playing these FLAC files from a disc in your PC?

 

One check to perform is to isolate one of these FLAC's where there is missing audio and copy them from the disc on your PC in Windows/File Explorer and see if the copies are still missing data.  IF the copies are still missing audio, then you know the files were burned that way on the disc, most likely.

 

Do you have a log from where you burned these FLAC files to a disc?  That would say if you used a lower quality disc or not.

[Northmen 24]

Thanks for the feedback. I’ll try playing it on my PC. The clipping of the songs was noticed when I played the disc on my new Sony blu ray player. I used a Verbatim DataLife Plus BD-R disc.

[dbminter]

Could be the Sony hardware.  Sony has generally made junk since 2002.  I once had a Sony DVD player that refused to play DVD-R's made by... Sony.  And this was back when Sony made their own DVD-R, before farming it out to Ritek.

 

I don't think there is such a thing as "DataLife Plus" BD-R.  In North America, there's only the VERBAT-IM media, which is generally high quality.  (I received a batch of bad Verbatim BD-R recently.)

[Northmen 24]

Sorry, I burned it to a DataLife Plus DVD-R.

I played it on my PC and it worked fine. I'll check to see if there is a firmware update for my BR player.

[dbminter]

If you're saying you played the FLAC files from the DVD-R on your PC fine, then the problem is your BR player.  It may have an issue with Verbatim DataLife Plus DVD-R or just DVD-R in general.  Or some other issue involving playing back files or FLAC files in particular from optical disc.

[Northmen 24]

Thanks.

It’s still under warranty so I’m going to contact Sony.

[dbminter]

I doubt it's a defective unit insomuch as a replacement will fix the problem.  I'd be willing to bet it's simply Sony's typical junk that doesn't work right from the design point of view.