[Flac] FLAC: corrupted files

[Josh Coalson]

--- Harry Sack <tranzedude at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
> 
> suppose I burn my flac files to CD (not audio cd, but just data cd
> with all
> the flac files) and after some time the cd becomes damaged and some
> bits in
> some flac files are read incorrectly by the cd-rom drive. So what
> happens
> then with those flac files. Will doing verify on them fail?
yes

> Will you still
> be able to decode them to WAV with only some damaged frames so with
> incorrect bits at the points where the cd was damaged (so only parts
> of the
> original audio data is lost: only damaged frames) OR will the whole
> flac
> file be damaged and not be able to decoded to WAV at all anymore (so
> the original audio data is lost)?

you will only lose the damaged frames (usually <0.1 sec per frame)

all of these things are answered and explained in the documentation
http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html



       
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