SuperQ;278680 Wrote: 
> Exactly.. except I would say #1 is only valid for things like TCP/IP
> transport with wav files.  You get the TCP checksums, but it's not
> inherent to the audio encoding like FLAC.
> 
> So just to make the audiophile community twitch a bit.  The 16bit
> checksum used by TCP is not exactly the best.  It catches most errors,
> but I have personally seen corruption happen in live networks.  Of
> course this was a network switch handling many many gigabits of
> traffic, and the error rates were so bad that it was causing 50% of
> packets to be dropped because the checksums didn't match.. but when
> you're doing gigabits of traffic and .0001% of the packets are corrupt
> in some way but still pass checksums get through to the application
> layer,  you see strange things happen.
> 
> Thankfully the likelyhood of this causing audible issues with the
> squeezebox are very very low.

But what about the CRC in the Ethernet frame?


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