while decoding a flac file, i get an error that reads

ERROR while encoding metadata state = FLAC_STREAM_DECODER_END OF STREAM

i'm pretty new to this process and spent the last hour looking for FAQ's or anything that could help me but couldn't find much. the technical jargon goes over my head pretty quickly. can anyone point me in the right direction? thanks for your time.

did the torrent finish?

all the songs finished downloading as flac files....(if that's what you're asking)...when i started encoding the first song, i could tell it was doing something because the dos screen showed percent completed. then after that, when i hit the decode button it takes only a fraction of a second and it gives the the above error message. again, my apologies for sounding sooo ignorant (b/c i am). thanks again for your help.

Keep in mind that you'll still see all of the files you're downloading even if they're not yet finished. BT allocates the space needed and creates shells of the files, then fills them up, so to speak. So unless your torrent program shows 100%, then it hasn't finished downloading everything.

ya, wait until the program shows 100%, then stop the torrent.

or, keep it going as a seed

thanks for the help guys, if i go back and download it again, will it go and pick up only the stuff that might have been cutoff the first time? or should i bite the bullet and re-download everything again?

it will pick up right where you left off

as long as you save it in the same place