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Old 2007-05-12, 07:17 AM
Tubular
 
Re: What about uploading a show that is in inactive torrents

If it is the same pressing of the CD, and
if your read offset was properly corrected, and
if the CD extracts with no errors,
then the wav files' md5's should match. (unless one set
has been mastered or edited or otherwise changed after
extraction)

If you go wav #1 > SHN version 2.90 (or whatever)
and then wav #1 > SHN version 3.60

then both SHN's md5's won't match because the newer version of SHN compresses better and the checksum is changed. There is also the issue of seek tables with SHN's. Some SHN seeds don't have them at all, some have them appended, and some have them as a separate .skt files. Two SHN sets made from identical wav files won't match if one set has seek tables appended and one set doesn't have them. FLAC's fingerprint remains the same though, because it just represents the audio data (not tags or replay gain) no matter what compression level or version is used.

Last edited by Tubular; 2007-05-12 at 07:25 AM.
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