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Re: Magic file copying snakeoil

Reply #26
As far as digital data storage/copying works, until data integrity is maintained (by CRC and other standard error correcting mechanisms - like in general data), the digital path could not be a cause of described phenomenons. If the data integrity is not maintained then the storage subsystem has a problem and the user will have issues with other files too, not only with audio.

I guess reading the comments around here that make no sense in the light of that true factoid, the ludicrousness of worrying about bit rot on modern error-detecting, error-correcting media is both obvious to some of us and bears repeating to the great unwashed.

Re: Magic file copying snakeoil

Reply #27
I found the thread starter at Head-Fi, WindowsX already is part of the bits are never the same elite and already reached Superpowers cetification. Identical File hearers
Is troll-adiposity coming from feederism?
With 24bit music you can listen to silence much louder!


Re: Magic file copying snakeoil

Reply #29
Did he forget Barry Diament?
He surely is listed as Barry D
Is troll-adiposity coming from feederism?
With 24bit music you can listen to silence much louder!


Re: Magic file copying snakeoil

Reply #31
Ok, you might be used to the increasing preponderance of audiophile snakeoil turning up on computers (jplayer, anyone?), but this one temporarily deprived me of the ability to speak:

http://www.head-fi.org/t/817872/testing-changes-that-could-affect-audio-performance-with-different-file-copying-software

Surely no-one can be that dishonest/stupid? It has to be trolling, right? <whimpers>

Head-fi is at again I see.

I stopped using it a long time ago but I bet you there's a wav vs flac thread somewhere there too.