diff --git a/crates/audio-io/src/flac.rs b/crates/audio-io/src/flac.rs
index 8a8c0ce1..657b9119 100644
--- a/crates/audio-io/src/flac.rs
+++ b/crates/audio-io/src/flac.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 //! partitioned Rice-coded residuals. Decoding is symphonia's, after [`check_metadata`].
 
 use crate::pcm::{Quantizer, be_u32, le_u32, validate_buffer};
-use crate::{AudioBuffer, AudioError, BitDepth, Result};
+use crate::{AudioBuffer, AudioError, AudioInfo, BitDepth, FileFormat, Result, SampleFormat};
 use std::io::{Cursor, Seek, SeekFrom, Write};
 
 const BLOCK_SIZE: usize = 4096;
@@ -454,6 +454,48 @@ pub(crate) fn check_metadata(b: &[u8], at: usize) -> Result<()> {
     Ok(())
 }
 
+/// The info of a FLAC stream with no audio frames at all: STREAMINFO declares 0 samples and
+/// nothing follows the metadata blocks. Symphonia's reader fails on these, as it looks for a first
+/// frame, so the caller answers them itself.
+pub(crate) fn empty_stream_info(b: &[u8], at: usize) -> Option<AudioInfo> {
+    let mut pos = at.checked_add(4)?;
+    let mut first = true;
+    loop {
+        let head = be_u32(b, pos)?;
+        let (body, len) = (pos.checked_add(4)?, (head & 0x00ff_ffff) as usize);
+        let end = body.checked_add(len)?;
+        if end > b.len() {
+            return None;
+        }
+        if first && ((head >> 24) & 0x7f != 0 || len != 34) {
+            return None;
+        }
+        first = false;
+        if head >> 31 == 1 {
+            if end != b.len() {
+                return None;
+            }
+            break;
+        }
+        pos = end;
+    }
+    // STREAMINFO, from the sample rate on: 20 bits rate, 3 channels - 1, 5 bits per sample - 1, 36 bits total.
+    let packed = u64::from_be_bytes(b.get(at + 4 + 4 + 10..at + 4 + 4 + 18)?.try_into().ok()?);
+    let sample_rate = (packed >> 44) as u32;
+    let channels = ((packed >> 41) & 0x7) as u16 + 1;
+    let bps = ((packed >> 36) & 0x1f) as u32 + 1;
+    if packed & 0xf_ffff_ffff != 0 || sample_rate == 0 {
+        return None;
+    }
+    let sample_format = match bps {
+        1..=8 => SampleFormat::Int8,
+        9..=16 => SampleFormat::Int16,
+        17..=24 => SampleFormat::Int24,
+        _ => SampleFormat::Int32,
+    };
+    Some(AudioInfo { format: FileFormat::Flac, sample_format, sample_rate, channels, frames: 0, bwf: None })
+}
+
 /// Whether a comment in a (little-endian) Vorbis comment block claims more than the block holds.
 /// The vendor string is skipped unread.
 fn comments_overrun(b: &[u8], body: usize, end: usize) -> bool {
diff --git a/crates/audio-io/src/symph.rs b/crates/audio-io/src/symph.rs
index 61691114..5bfe91da 100644
--- a/crates/audio-io/src/symph.rs
+++ b/crates/audio-io/src/symph.rs
@@ -36,9 +36,15 @@ fn guarded<T>(f: impl FnOnce() -> Result<T>) -> Result<T> {
     catch_unwind(AssertUnwindSafe(f)).unwrap_or_else(|_| Err(AudioError::Malformed("decoder failed on malformed input".into())))
 }
 
+/// What [`open`] found: a reader, or a stream that holds no audio frames and has no reader.
+enum Opened {
+    Reader(Box<dyn FormatReader>),
+    Empty(AudioInfo),
+}
+
 /// Symphonia's probe loop (`Probe::format`, whose hint 0.5 ignores), checking the container it
 /// finds before its reader allocates whatever the file claims.
-fn open(bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Box<dyn FormatReader>> {
+fn open(bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Opened> {
     let mut mss = MediaSourceStream::new(Box::new(Cursor::new(bytes.to_vec())), MediaSourceStreamOptions::default());
     let fmt_opts = FormatOptions { enable_gapless: true, ..FormatOptions::default() };
     loop {
@@ -50,11 +56,16 @@ fn open(bytes: &[u8]) -> Result<Box<dyn FormatReader>> {
                 match head.get(..4) {
                     Some(b"caff") => crate::caf::check(bytes, at)?,
                     Some(b"ftyp") => crate::mp4::check(bytes, at.saturating_sub(4))?,
-                    Some(b"fLaC") => crate::flac::check_metadata(bytes, at)?,
+                    Some(b"fLaC") => {
+                        crate::flac::check_metadata(bytes, at)?;
+                        if let Some(info) = crate::flac::empty_stream_info(bytes, at) {
+                            return Ok(Opened::Empty(info));
+                        }
+                    }
                     Some(b"RIFF") => crate::wav::check_info(bytes, at)?,
                     _ => {}
                 }
-                return reader(mss, &fmt_opts).map_err(map_err);
+                return reader(mss, &fmt_opts).map(Opened::Reader).map_err(map_err);
             }
             // Tags aren't used, and symphonia allocates whatever an ID3v2 frame claims: skip it.
             (Instantiate::Metadata(_), Some([b'I', b'D', b'3', _, _, _, size @ ..])) => {
@@ -141,7 +152,13 @@ fn info_of(reader: &dyn FormatReader, detected: FileFormat) -> Result<(u32, Audi
 
 /// Decode the whole first audio track. When `count_only`, samples are counted but not stored.
 fn run(bytes: &[u8], detected: FileFormat, count_only: bool) -> Result<(AudioInfo, AudioBuffer)> {
-    let mut reader = open(bytes)?;
+    let mut reader = match open(bytes)? {
+        Opened::Reader(reader) => reader,
+        Opened::Empty(info) => {
+            let buf = AudioBuffer::new(info.sample_rate, usize::from(info.channels), 0);
+            return Ok((info, buf));
+        }
+    };
     let (track_id, mut info) = info_of(reader.as_ref(), detected)?;
     if let Some(n) = reader.tracks().iter().find(|t| t.id == track_id).and_then(|t| t.codec_params.n_frames) {
         let total = n.saturating_mul(u64::from(info.channels.max(1)));
@@ -237,7 +254,10 @@ fn run(bytes: &[u8], detected: FileFormat, count_only: bool) -> Result<(AudioInf
 
 pub(crate) fn probe(bytes: &[u8], detected: FileFormat) -> Result<AudioInfo> {
     guarded(|| {
-        let reader = open(bytes)?;
+        let reader = match open(bytes)? {
+            Opened::Reader(reader) => reader,
+            Opened::Empty(info) => return Ok(info),
+        };
         let (_, info) = info_of(reader.as_ref(), detected)?;
         if info.frames > 0 && info.channels > 0 {
             return Ok(info);
diff --git a/crates/audio-io/tests/roundtrip.rs b/crates/audio-io/tests/roundtrip.rs
index a53c272a..374e3aa7 100644
--- a/crates/audio-io/tests/roundtrip.rs
+++ b/crates/audio-io/tests/roundtrip.rs
@@ -284,3 +284,28 @@ fn float_wav_header_is_rewritten_in_place_as_the_file_grows() {
     assert_eq!((&big[..4], big.len()), (&b"RF64"[..], len));
     assert!(wav_float_header(0, 48_000, 0).is_err());
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn zero_frame_flac_round_trips_like_wav_and_aiff() {
+    for format in [FileFormat::Wav, FileFormat::Aiff, FileFormat::Flac] {
+        for depth in [BitDepth::Int16, BitDepth::Int24] {
+            for channels in [1, 2] {
+                let opts = EncodeOptions { format, bit_depth: depth, ..EncodeOptions::default() };
+                let bytes = encode(&AudioBuffer::new(48_000, channels, 0), &opts).unwrap();
+                let info = probe(&bytes, None).unwrap();
+                assert_eq!((info.format, info.sample_format, info.sample_rate, info.frames), (format, expected_sf(depth), 48_000, 0));
+                assert_eq!(usize::from(info.channels), channels);
+                let (info, buf) = decode(&bytes, None).unwrap();
+                assert_eq!((info.frames, buf.frames(), buf.num_channels()), (0, 0, channels));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn flac_claiming_frames_but_holding_none_still_errors() {
+    let opts = EncodeOptions { format: FileFormat::Flac, bit_depth: BitDepth::Int16, ..EncodeOptions::default() };
+    let mut bytes = encode(&AudioBuffer::new(48_000, 2, 0), &opts).unwrap();
+    bytes[25] = 1; // STREAMINFO total samples (low byte of the 36-bit field) = 1
+    assert!(decode(&bytes, None).is_err());
+}