Robin Bowes;275568 Wrote: > > If there is some way to uniquely identify each file/URL then it would > not be necessary to recalculate a hash each time. > > So, what options are there to uniquely identify each file/URL? > It can't be based on the filename/URL itself, because the reason we are talking about this is that we want to be able to handle moved or renamed files correctly. Neither can it be based on values in the tags, because we like to be able to correct a spelling error on an artist name without getting into trouble.
>From my point of view it sounds like it either needs to be an id/checksum stored inside the file or something that must be calculated. As already mentioned, FLAC has a pre-calculated checksum which should be possible to use, I'm not sure about the other file formats. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43851 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
