WOW, Monkey's Audio is still the best
Reply #56 – 2006-09-24 20:16:19
guruboolez, how would your experiment with manually corrupting the files apply to normal conditions (without modifiying them intentionally) ? What conditions are mandatory to make an .ape file non-playable ? I've never seen anyone reporting such problems in real life. Any links ? Thank you First of all, don't expect from me (or anyone sane) to take a hammer and to partially destroy my hard disks in order to get corrupted files corresponding to "real life" problems. Most of us don't have any other choice than simulating "real life" with artificial conditions - and their validity is in essence questionable. I don't have any answer to your question. It's still better than nothing I believe and I'm not the first one using such artificial way of corruption to test error handling of various audioformats. This experience is still teaching us valid elements (like the average amount of lost data or the way different tools are handling the error). About corruptions, there were several reports in the past from HA.org users (especially with Monkey's Audio, apparently more sensitive to hardware issues). You can search for it. And as I said in a previous post, I got myself two cases of corruption, and for one I was unable to recover anything occuring after the corrupted part ; for the second, the loss was limited to a small fragment. Our simulation is apparently showing the same phenomenon: sometimes recovery is possible (see greynol experience); sometimes it isn't (see mine). Note: corruptions are more likely to happen on optical media such as CD-R and DVD-R. I have a lot of .ape files burned into CD-R. Once they get corrupted, I will obtain real-life complient testing files - but I'm not too hurry for that