Topic: If you turn a wav back to md5?

[mikeincharleston]

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

[HanKDanK]

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

[HanKDanK]

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. 

[mikeincharleston]

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

[Gordon]

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

[mikeincharleston]

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

[Tim]

i don't keep shn/flac

for shame

[rustoleum]

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.

[BC]

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.