Help! I reformated my drive...actually a stupid Seagate utility that did a partition clone mixed a hard drive up somehow and wrote over my drive with my flac files. I am in the process of doing a data recovery right now. I did a test and riped one music file and flaced it and compared the size of it to the same song on the data recovery program listing and they were the same size. Even if the files play alright with no problem and sound good, do you think that there would be any possible audio quality degration like the sound not haveing full frequency that would be so minute it would be hard to notice?

The command line flac utility has a built-in feature to check the integrity of your files. The command is something like "flac --test", see http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html

Not likely. Either the files play through OK (which means you got the whole file) or the files are bad, or the files are partial (at some point, the content is replaced with static or the decoder stops).

In other words, if you don't notice a hugh problem when playing back the file, it's ok.

-brendan