[vorbis] When CDs Go Bad

[J C Fitzgerald]

Thanks for your reply, Myles.

> 
> Polydor? late 80's? - the discs are very likely garbage.
> 
It certainly exhibits the symptoms described even though Polydor isn't
mentioned (except in a contradictory "Polydor & Du Pont" versus "Philips
& Du Pont").  I'll pursue it at the e-mail addresses given.

> 
> You won't like the article, but it does explain it.
>
And it does offer some hope of replacement.

> 
> ... I suggest also 
> using par2 volumes to create 'recovery' files against bit rot on the 
> CD's you burn that hold the .flacs.
> 
I've been using par (plus a couple of other techniques) as a safeguard
on archive CDs containing all types of data for some time now.  par2
does seem to avoid having to split files, but it came out just days
after I started converting my .wav.bz2 archive to .flac, unfortunately.
But thanks for the offer of assistance.

John
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