Topic: New: Question about FLAC md5 checksums (MAC specific)

[Tiny Dancer]

Hi all. This is my first post here. I'm new and generally a technopeasant, so please be gentle in your technospeak   


I have an iBook G4.
I've managed to download FLAC files using Transmit and convert them to wav with the XACT program and play it through my iTunes. I don't even bother with the md5 because I have no idea what that is and would it say sbefail if it was bad? I mean, the music sounds great to me, so I imagine the checksums are fine. But I'm not burning these files to cd yet because I'm just learning how this all works. If I can hear the music without dealing with md5 checksums isn't that all right? Or am I missing something here? And what are sector boundaries and do I have to worry about that or not?

Thank you. I'm brand new to downloading music off the internet except for mp3s and stuff like that.

[F.O.Bean]

ok, this is NOT a MAC or PC thing, this applies to BOTH comp manufacturers.......

anyway, an md5 is a File Integrity Che3cksum, basicially it is a bit-for-bit file checking generator, emaning it checks EVERy flac/wav/shn/whatever for a bit-to-bit comparison, for archiving, even burning to disc, i check ALL md5's, and even tho flac has a verifying checksum function built into every encode/decode, i STILL include an md5 for EVERY folder, stuff i put onto etree AND archive i include an md5 of JUST the flacs, but when i i ONLY upload to archive.org, I include an md5 of the whole folder, just for laziness/quickness i guess.........

now onto SBE's, otherwise known as, Sector Boundariy Errors, these occur when a track/song break IS NOT placed on the sector correctly, sometimes this causes a pop/click on playback. to avoid this, and since maybe 2002/2003, flac frontend has enabled fixing of sector boundary alignment on the encoding process, so i can avoid SBE's right there, and i also use cdwave to track(tho I Still get one eventually when i dont have a padder/wasted track at the end of each set, but who cares, if the end of my set is crowd and the beginning of set II is crowd, im not worried about an SBE affecting that, i have yet to hear a pop/click when using cd wave to track and flac frontend(with sector boundary alignment set) and have NEVER heard any issues with that process, YMMV

hope i helped a little bit, its alot of stuff to take in, i gave it to you in laymans terms, a real description much more technical can be found at etree.wiki or somewhere along those lines, or just search sector boundary error on google

[F.O.Bean]

and a few programs i use(tho on a pc) are md5summer and mkwact, not sure if theyre available for the MAc or not, xact should be able to tell about SBE's as well, tho you may have to decode/encode the whole fileset again

[dhora]

Good answer Bean.

Love that avatar. It's such a sweet pic +T.

[F.O.Bean]

Good answer Bean.

Love that avatar. It's such a sweet pic +T.

Thanks, I think the Mok3st3r took it tho