SuperQ wrote:
> No bit errors will be introduced between your PC and your squeezebox.
> There are several layers of checksums that prevent this.  Both TCP/IP
> and wifi/ethernet (they're basically the same thing bit-wise) have
> internal checksums.

but they're very weak; it's not impossible to find bad network hardware 
introducing bit errors in patterns that get past TCP checksums. I've 
seen it myself.

> In addition to this FLAC has built-in checksums.

and I think that's much better protection, fortunately.

cheers,
calum.
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