kgturner;388875 Wrote: 
> are flac files completely immune to corruption?

No, but corruption is detectable.  Meaning that if it corrupts in
transmission, the player can be aware of this and can re-request the
file and you'll never hear the flawed version.

On-disk corruption can happen to any type of file (although I suppose
technically smaller FLAC files are less likely to be sitting on a bad
sector than larger WAV files).  But again, with FLAC it's detectable. 
If a barely audible file corruption occurs, you can immediately re-rip
the FLAC.  With the WAV, you may just think that you just now noticed
that someone kicks the microphone stand 2 minutes into the track, when
actually it's corrupt.


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