Re: Verify data integrity

>>> How big of a problem is this multiple pressing issue?  Could an album
>>> have many pressings that are just barely non-identical?  If not, maybe
>>> they should be tracked separately with their unique checksums.
>>> Different pressings of vinyl records are "tracked" separately.
>>
>> Different manufacturers will make discs with minute differences. All it
>> takes is a frame in the wrong place and the checksum won't match.
>> Currently in AR there's no protection against this, and like you said it
>> has multiple checksums instead. The problem is that one release might have
>> three ids, while another which has a slight offset difference has 0,
>> resulting in no matches for whoever rips it. It's quite common depending
>> on what you rip, and just as annoying every time.
>
> I understand how that works.  I'm wondering if MBz should track
> different pressings separately as far as the checksum is concerned.
> If there are usually only a few pressings per album, it sounds like a
> reasonable thing to do.  Vinyl records are cataloged according to
> pressing, but I haven't heard of CDs being tracked in the same way
> yet.
>
> - Grant
>
>> -- Per (Wizzcat)