[Flac-users] Re: test vs. verify

David W. Tamkin dattier at panix.com
Fri Dec 13 10:37:08 PST 2002


When I asked,

| > If you're going to run flac -t later to test
| > the .flac file, isn't it redundant to have verification on during
| > encoding?

Fearless Leader Ace Coalson responded,

| yep.

OK.

| > If you know ... that -V was used
| > during encoding and that flac reported "Verify OK," is there any
| > reason to test the file?

| nope, unless you suspect the file of being corrupted some
| time after encoding.

Thank you.  I've been doing both, so it would save time and cycles to do only
one of them.

Additionally, Josh, thank you for using different terms ("testing" and
"verifying") for the two functions.  Over in the Monkey's Audio universe,
Matthew Ashland has dubbed both of them "verifying."  I propose further that,
when it comes to sharing audio in FLAC format, we use "validating" for
checking FLAC files against a file of MD5 sums and "certifying" for comparing
the fingerprints of our tested FLACs to those posted by the seeder.





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