[Young Spade]

Nope. Just copy and paste away. How do you think people download songs off of the internet? Amazon, iTunes, Limewire... its all copy and paste. Well copy and send actually.

 

[b0dhi]

linuxworks, I'm not sure if this has anything to do with your username, but Windows does do CRC checks when copying files.

GirgleMirt, the reason cables/burn-in are controversial but pure digital copies are not is because the former are at least plausible while the latter are not. Also, a lot more people are informed about how a digital copy works, so as soon as someone asks or suggests that pure digital copies are degrading their music, they get shot down. This keeps the "placebo" from spreading. Also, SPDIF is not a pure digital transfer as it carries a clock signal as well as the digital sample data.

 

[sonci]

Could you post this thread to the Computer Audio section, It would be much more interesting there..

 

[gevorg]

Only on head-fi this question would take at least 5 pages of discussion. And its only in the Music forum.

 

[linuxworks]

Quote:

Originally Posted by b0dhi /img/forum/go_quote.gif linuxworks, I'm not sure if this has anything to do with your username, but Windows does do CRC checks when copying files.

up to a point. but its not the same as 'end to end data integrity'. that's enterprise class and that you DON'T get from MS product. not even close.

the crc's I'm talking about are post-write. you write a file, THEN check the file (after its been flushed to disk) and do re-reads on it.

MS does not do that. not ever, I don't believe.

 

[Loser777]

Impossible, if music got progressively worse as it was copied/could degrade, think of what would happen with recordings/CDs?
Data is data, Quote:

01101001 01110100 00100000 01110011 01110100 01100001 01111001 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110011 01100001 01101101 01100101

is going to stay the same no matter how many times you copy it, unless your hard drive dies or your computer is unstable- but silent data corruption occurs maybe less than a TRILLIONTH of the time and for that you need to have a BUGGED PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE (think Pentium I FPU/FDIV Bug)

It would be impossible for you to hear a change in a a single bit of data.

If you're really paranoid, do a MD5 checksum on your files, and then compare the checksum with the checksums of copies.