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Title: If you turn a wav back to md5?
Post by: mikeincharleston on February 01, 2005, 12:02:00 PM

hey,
  couldn't think of what forum this went in.  this should be easy to answer, but if i download something from archive and burn it to disc and then later extract one of the wavs and turn it back to a shn and create an md5 will it be the same as the original?  basically i ask cause i downloaded a few dead shows and from time to time i notice different versions (ie. updated soundboard, new transfer, bertha remaster) and i never remember what i got, that is why i want to take one wav and check the md5 to see which i have.  make sense?

mike

Title: Re: If you turn a wav back to md5?
Post by: HanKDanK on February 01, 2005, 12:08:43 PM

youll need to do some crazy work to set your EAC offsets, but it can be done....

Title: Re: If you turn a wav back to md5?
Post by: HanKDanK on February 01, 2005, 12:09:58 PM

but for your purpose, you may want to d/l one track and compare.  Sometimes its just as easy to see the timing of each file as it was tracked out. 

Title: Re: If you turn a wav back to md5?
Post by: mikeincharleston on February 01, 2005, 12:22:28 PM

cool.  i figured i'd ask before i started wasting time to figure out if couldn't be done.

Title: Re: If you turn a wav back to md5?
Post by: Gordon on February 01, 2005, 12:33:29 PM

or keep track of your sources and you would know which one you have  ;D  I keep all shns and flacs so it's never been an issue.

Title: Re: If you turn a wav back to md5?
Post by: mikeincharleston on February 01, 2005, 03:06:53 PM

i don't keep shn/flac and i know the source for everything except the dead.  since they are always updating and fixing different shows it's hard to keep up with which version i had.  i mean they are all soundboards that i have and all sound good so i'm not too worried.  more just wondering

Title: Re: If you turn a wav back to md5?
Post by: Tim on February 01, 2005, 03:36:21 PM

Quote from: Mike In Boone on February 01, 2005, 03:06:53 PM

i don't keep shn/flac

for shame :P

;)

Title: Re: If you turn a wav back to md5?
Post by: rustoleum on February 01, 2005, 04:21:44 PM

WaveLab also has a Wave Compare function.  It'll tell you the exact samples that differ... if it's a different source presumably every sample would be different.

Title: Re: If you turn a wav back to md5?
Post by: BC on February 01, 2005, 04:22:00 PM

Quote from: HanKDanK on February 01, 2005, 12:09:58 PM

but for your purpose, you may want to d/l one track and compare.  Sometimes its just as easy to see the timing of each file as it was tracked out. 

I would also do it this way.