QUOTE (ktf @ Jan 25 2013, 20:01) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yes, but what if it was corrupted between recording and encoding or during encoding? This plain text showed up in the decoded WAV not in the FLAC-file itself, so it has had to be overwritten while lingering as a WAV file, not while being a FLAC file. That would explain why the FLAC file itself is intact and the MD5sum is correct.
Ah, now I realize that the order of events was different than I previously thought. ARGH.
I didn't encode directly to FLAC in Audacity, I encoded to WAV instead (have no idea why). When I accidentally deleted the collection, there were still wav files remaining that weren't converted to FLAC, so when I did the recovery, they were still in WAV format, that explains the plain text section in the file. Sorry for the mix-up and for the eventual head-scratching XD
Also thank you for taking your time and looking into this weird issue!