opaqueice;278298 Wrote: > Yeah, that's a good point. > > Since no one transmits FLAC -except- over a TCP/IP network, the > statement is nonsensical. It's like saying standard uncompressed files > are superior to zipped files because zipped files have less redundancy, > when the opposite is true - and the whole point!
And even better is the fact that FLAC does contain checksum information. So in addition to TCP checksums, you get 16bit per FLAC frame CRC checksums. http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation_format_overview.html However, the original article is technically correct. There is no _redundancy_ such as ECC(FEC) or Reed-Solomon encoding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error-correcting_code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed-Solomon_error_correction -- SuperQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44532 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
