[Flac-users] Subset and non-Subset files

[David W. Tamkin]

Josh explained,

 > search for "subset" on http://flac.sf.net/format.html
 > (I'll make a link in the documentation to it).

That was over my head -- not the post, but the information at that URL.
   Does it mean that a non-Subset FLAC file isn't streamable, that a
decoder can't read successive parts of the FLAC file and generate
successive parts of the WAV?