Soulkeeper;693578 Wrote: > No. But I am saying that if you have two bit-identical files, it is > impossible for the history of the content of these files to cause them > to be play differently on any computer. And therefore absolutely no > effort needs to be wasted to refute such a claim, and those making the > claim are fools. > > Note that I said -the history of the content-. > > If one file is stored on an SSD disk and the other on a 5,25" floppy, > that may affect the performance of the computer at playback, and thus > affect the sound. But that wasn't at all what I said.
Phil Leigh;693583 Wrote: > Indeed - because if that were true, computers simply WOULD NOT WORK AT > ALL. > > What the TAS idiots seem to be unable to grasp (unlike any 6 year old) > is that raw data is... JUST RAW DATA! It doesn't have a history or > heritage embedded within it, or a soul or any form of high conscience. > It's just NUMBERS!. I don't understand "history of the content." By that you mean which one came first, etc.? So let's be more precise and say we have two bit-identical audio/video files stored within the same physical filesystem (i.e., same partition) on some type of storage device on a computer. You really want to claim that it is absolutely impossible for there to be any differences between the two files that could lead to playback differences on that computer? Really?? I would suggest that you might want to think a bit harder, or perhaps study how large files actually get stored in filesystems. Hint: ever had to defragment a filesystem? Even if two files are bit-identical, they may not be stored in exactly the same way in the filesystem. One may be nearly contiguous, while the other may be scattered among a set of relatively small blocks. Certainly it would be possible to store a sequence of copies of a file in a filesystem so that the successive copies are increasingly fragmented, and this fragmentation could potentially cause increasing playback problems in the copies based on their generation. I myself have absolutely encountered situations where some multimedia files played fine while others--created later--did not, precisely because the filesystem (NTFS) was becoming increasingly fragmented. Defragmenting the filesystem fixed the problems (though the machine was unusable for a couple of hours!). While I too doubt TAS' claims--and the mere fact of some files being "copies" of others is irrelevant--it is definitely NOT IMPOSSIBLE that one might experience increasing playback issues with successive copies made on a fragmented filesystem. While I think it UNLIKELY that the scenario I laid out is what happened to TAS, rebutting their claims was worthy of a bit more than simply sniggering at their stupidity and calling them names. -- ncarver ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ncarver's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15905 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93549 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
