• SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Every file transfer creates some noise and loss to the file. Unless you’re using high quality Flac files, which not everyone burning and downloading files are doing so, or it’s already been converted or transferred and incurred corruption.

    If you transfer an mp3 1000 times, it’s gonna degrade. You can’t use hashes to fill in missing audio portions like you can with text or something.

    Every time you transfer a file, there is loss, this isn’t unique to audio files. Your entire comment is wrong. Even downloading a file online won’t create a perfect copy of the audio file because of data loss, even with hashes.