Pat Farrell wrote: > vrobin wrote: >> MD5 checksums of mp3 audio data shouldn't be too difficult(1), and it's >> already a part of flac format. > > er, leave out the 'mp3' in your statement above, and I'm with you. > > and I'd use a SHA1 rather than an MD5. This is what I proposed on the > dev list back in the 5.4 days. > > Ignore file name, path, etc. ignore all meta data (tags, images). > generate a serious hash of the sound > Use that has as the key to all knowledge.
That's impractical - you'd have to re-calculate the hash each time you accessed a file to make sure it matches the hash stored in the DB. Also, the SC DB contains information about music sources other than physical files; how would you uniquely identify those? R. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list ripping@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
