Viitalahde wrote on Sat, 17 October 2009 20:51 |
Bob Olhsson wrote on Sat, 17 October 2009 16:22 | I recently learned the hard way that a zip can be opened with the audio corrupted.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think a RAR package is immune to this? I honestly don't know how widely RAR is supported, though. I've always liked it.
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Drifting off topic a bit:
RAR is very robust but I've had BOTH zip and rar failures (also found out the hard way).
When zip made it's first error I had to re-author the SACD and switched to RAR.
The RAR error was spotted by the MD5 check (so theoretically it could also be an unreported HD write failure, there is no way of knowing).
I check MD5 all the time: reading CD's or DVD's, unpacking archives or when people send unpacked data by FTP. Even when copying lots of data to a different drive.
With returning customers I ask them to include the checksums from their end, saves a lot of time.