[Flac] Checking file integrity

Anton Shepelev anton.txt at gmail.com
Sun Apr 24 12:36:12 PDT 2011


I thank everybody for their replies.

Brian Willoughby:

> An  MD5  on the compressed data would be different
> for every compression level, and  potentially  for
> every  revision  of  the  libFLAC  coder.  In this
> case, the quicker solution is not the best.

That's what I wanted  to  hear.  To  test  a  file's
integrity  is one thing, and to test the correctness
of the  compression  by  ensuring  reversibility  is
another.

Anton


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