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Old 2008-10-31, 07:13 PM
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Re: What the heck are fingerprints anyways?

Think of fingerprints as, well, fingerprints of your own fingers. They are unique to you and each of your fingers. Well, each track in a show has a unique fingerprint. So, if you have a list of these fingerprints and drop this list into an application such as Traders Little Helper, it will check to make sure the files you have are the same as the ones in the fingerprint list. This is good to make sure your download completed correctly or that after you burned the files onto a disc that they are still OK.

You may want to look at our FAQ - Md5 Checksum Types
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