Phil Meyer wrote:
>> I don't know if checksum would be viable option here since it would
>> be faster to do a full clean rescan. 

> Yes, you could calculate a checksum, read it from the database, and
> if different read the file content again.  Pretty pointless - a full
> rescan would be faster!

Its not about the speed, or just about the speed.

The concept of 'just do a rescan' is very limiting.
To move past it, you have to consider other data sources than the tags.

> Yes, you could check archive bits, and providing you are on windows,
> and you have a tagger tool that sets it, that would work.  It's not
> cross platform

And its not really robust. It will get the naive users in trouble, which 
is exactly what you don't want to do with something as important and 
complex as proper library management.

Pat
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