> > 3. The intention of this plugin is to verify the algorithm that's used > to identify a specific music file even if it has been re-tagged or > renamed/moved. The algorithm will later be used to connect metadata and > statistics to a specific music file and make sure that relation survives > a rename/move or retagging of the file.
Can't it be properly verified mathematically? Is there something unique about doing MD5 checksum calculations on compressed audio data that increases the probability of non-unique checksums? Speaking of unique identifiers... What about allowing users to create their own unique identifiers for files? Say SbS recognized a tag field, maybe something named "UUID" that the user populated randomly. Instead of computing a checksum, just use that field. The only important thing is that they be unique and unchanging; they don't have to correlate in any way with the audio data. Wouldn't this speed up the scanning process? -- JJZolx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81679 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
