[Scott Dorsey]

RD Jones wrote:

It's entirely possible that a data processing error or other "glitch"
might occur during recording or subsequent processing but before the
complete .wav file is written.
In such a case a valid .wav file might be written but contain an
audible
problem with the audio.
If this occurs there's no replacement for actually listening to
playback.

Sure there is! You take a checksum of the files, you store the checksums,
then later on you compare the file against the checksums and you know if
they have changed or not (within certain bounds).

The "cksum" utility has been around in Unix since the seventies....
back then file corruption was a much more common thing...
--scott


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