Re: Verify data integrity

On Mon, 26 May 2008 17:34:36 +0200, Philip Jägenstedt <philip@...>  
wrote:

> I've often though about this and think MusicBrainz really would be a
> good place to add checksum information. AccurateRip is proprietary and
> can only be used in the applications that the author approves of,
> which is completely b0rked. By adding checksums to discids it should
> be possible to verify rips both when ripping and after the fact, which
> I think is of great value for any bit-perfectionist. Technically it
> doesn't seem much more difficult than storing PUIDs, but obviously it
> would take someone to implement it on the server side.
> Philip

It's an interesting thought, but the problem is that such crc calculation  
needs to be integrated with a reliable ripper to be of any value. Picard  
isn't that, and I doubt it ever will be, I mean why bother. Sure, you  
could compete against AR and offer a plugin for EAC, but I think you'd  
have a big problem getting people to use it, and without users it's quite  
worthless.

Personally I think it'd be a better idea to see if Spoon (the AR author)  
would want to cooperate with MBz. It'd be a win-win, with us gaining rip  
verification and him gaining accurate metadata. It wouldn't be that hard  
either, it's very similar to disc ids as it is, just comes with additional  
crcs for every file.

-- Per (Wizzcat)

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