2007/7/25, Josh Coalson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
--- Harry Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/7/25, Harry Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Hi > > > > I have downloaded a FLAC file somewhere and when trying to decode > it to > > WAV it gives the error message: ERROR, MD5 signature mismatch > > So my question is now: are FLAC files that give the error message > above > > still decodable to WAV (and how can you do this, because flac.exe > doesn't > > want to decode the file), even if there is a MD5 signature > mismatch, or is > > this not possible at all? if that is the only error given even when decoded with -F, then it got all the samples back. they are also highly likely to be the same samples that were encoded. most likely they were encoded on a machine with bad hardware (bad ram, aggressive overclocking), less likely is that the file was corrupted or tampered with.
But how is it possible then the FLAC encoder allows files which have a bad resulting MD5 to be encoded? Is it because of the bad ram, ... this incorrect MD5 is not detected during encoding? Can you also give me an example of an error message that would occur when the file is corrupted?
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