smc2911;278287 Wrote: 
>  However, there is one point no-one has mentioned that I would take
> issue with: As I understand it (please correct me if I'm wrong) SB uses
> TCP/IP to stream, which means that it is error free. The only problem
> you can run into is that if your bandwidth is so terrible that your
> buffer runs out, but this would be more likely to happen with an
> uncompressed format (although unlikely even then). So, long live FLAC!

Yeah, that's a good point.  

Since no one transmits FLAC -except- over a TCP/IP network, the
statement is nonsensical.  It's like saying standard uncompressed files
are superior to zipped files because zipped files have less redundancy,
when the opposite is true - and the whole point!


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