MS300 Advanced Users Guide
3/3/2005
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yield a single file representation of the entire CD. If your original CD is damaged,
the cue sheet can be exported later in order to burn an exact copy.
• Error resistant: Because of FLAC's framing, stream errors limit the damage to the
frame in which the error occurred, typically a small fraction of a second worth of
data. Contrast this with some other lossless codecs, in which a single error
destroys the remainder of the stream.
What FLAC is not
• Lossy. FLAC is intended for lossless compression only, as there are many good
lossy formats already, such as Vorbis, MPC, and MP3 (see LAME for an
excellent open-source implementation).
• SDMI compliant, et cetera. There is no intention to support any methods of copy
protection, which are, for all practical purposes, a complete waste of bits.
(Another way to look at it is that since copy protection is futile, it really carries no
information, so you might say FLAC already losslessly compresses all possible
copy protection information down to zero bits!) Of course, we can't stop what
some misguided person does with proprietary metadata blocks, but then again,
non-proprietary decoders will skip them anyway.
Fore more information on FLAC, please visit http://flac.sourceforge.net/
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