Re: Protecting audio files from bit rot?
Reply #56 –
Maybe spoon feed him with sfv files. I'm afraid he's way in over his head at this point.
Like using zip (et al), looking into fb2k's integrity verifier in conjunction with frame CRCs that likely don't exist in any of his mp3s (not the same as the CRC in the Lame header that I was talking about, but I digress) is, well, let's be nice and just call it a wasted effort.
For me, mp3s are entirely expendable. If they were going to be corrupted in some way I would just make new ones. If I am unable to detect a problem that may exist, then let ignorance be bliss. If I encounter what I suspect to be an audible problem, then my next course of action would be to consult the source. This seems far more rational to me than getting sucked into a rabbit hole of paranoia. This is not to dismiss par files, rather it is about the fear that redundancy is being created for files that might already be damaged.