<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/7/25, Josh Coalson <<a href="mailto:xflac@yahoo.com">xflac@yahoo.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
--- Harry Sack <<a href="mailto:tranzedude@gmail.com">tranzedude@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> 2007/7/25, Harry Sack <<a href="mailto:tranzedude@gmail.com">tranzedude@gmail.com</a>>:<br>> ><br>> > Hi
<br>> ><br>> > I have downloaded a FLAC file somewhere and when trying to decode<br>> it to<br>> > WAV it gives the error message: ERROR, MD5 signature mismatch<br>> > So my question is now: are FLAC files that give the error message
<br>> above<br>> > still decodable to WAV (and how can you do this, because flac.exe<br>> doesn't<br>> > want to decode the file), even if there is a MD5 signature<br>> mismatch, or is<br>> > this not possible at all?
<br><br>if that is the only error given even when decoded with -F, then<br>it got all the samples back. they are also highly likely to be<br>the same samples that were encoded. most likely they were encoded<br>on a machine with bad hardware (bad ram, aggressive overclocking),
<br>less likely is that the file was corrupted or tampered with.</blockquote><div><br> </div><br></div>But how is it possible then the FLAC encoder allows files which have a bad resulting MD5 to be encoded? Is it because of the bad ram, ... this incorrect MD5 is not detected during encoding?
<br><br>Can you also give me an example of an error message that would occur when the file is corrupted?<br><br><br>