garym wrote: > My concern about FLAC or other lossless purchases is understanding the > "chain" of creation. I know that mp3 files purchased can have all sorts > of differing codecs used (some better than other, VBR, CBR, ABR, as well > as differing quality codecs to begin with, LAME vs others), and were > these things ripped from a disc or created from some "higher" source? > If the FLAC file was created from a disk rip, was it secure? etc. All > this is fairly minor in most cases, and I'd be happy if I knew the FLACs > were created from the studio masters in a high quality environment. But > somehow I'm picturing some minimum wage guy creating the digital files > without any regard for normal safeguards.
Checksum is your friend.......it is very simple to test a download with one of your own CDs, ripped as securely as you please. Checksum both files and see if there are any differences. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ amey01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11274 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80369 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
