--- Greg Erskine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mswlogo;167344 Wrote: > > I think the most useful feature of FLAC is that the file is > checksummed > > but WAV is not. > > > > So when you mass convert your library you basically check the > quality > > of your "masters". If you use WAV it will happily read garbage. > > Hi mswlogo, > > Can you give me more inforamtion. I don't understand how this works.
in WAV the PCM samples are stored raw with no framing information, checksums, or anything. it just a long string of samples. so if there is damage, nothing can detect it; usually you first find out while you're listening and suddenly get noise at full scale. in FLAC, audio is framed and checksummed so if one part is damaged, the decoder will silence it during playback, and only the damaged part. also it's possible to recover the undamaged audio, or quickly test a whole file to see if it is undamaged. Josh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
