A digital audio receiver stores received frames temporarily for decoding and error concealment. A reconstructing block (14) in the decoder reads stored frames using a read window (43) wherein the latest received frame (+cnnxt) is undecoded. Decoding is carried out in stages so that the correctness of the current frame (0) is examined and possible errors are concealed using corresponding data of other frames in the window. Detection of errors is based on checksums (19, 26) and allowed values of bit combinations in certain parts of the frame. In addition, the receiver maintains an estimate (60) for the signal's bit error ratio and uses it to control the operation of the error concealment algorithm.
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