Re: old burned cd file in wav

On 10/1/2020 12:32 PM, Jeff [email protected] [EAC] wrote:
> My primary music drive is now a FreeNAS server using zfs, so I don't 
> anticipate any more surprises going forward. When I run a FLAC check 
> (which takes days!) I usually run against one of the backups rather than 
> the primary. I'd rather find a problem at the end of the chain and work 
> my way back up, if that makes any sense. It's probably not rational, but 
> it certainly isn't hurting anything.

Isn't it great to be able to spin up a clone of an arbitrary snapshot, 
do whatever you want to it without worry, and then destroy the clone 
without ever putting your "real" data at risk?

> I can see the appeal of things like whole-directory MD5sums and the 
> like, but I'm unlikely to remember to properly recalculate those files 
> after making tag changes. While I don't make changes every day, I do it 
> often enough that something like that wouldn't work for me. Having 
> something like FLAC's checksum that /only/ tests the actual audio is 
> perfect for me.

The audio-only checksum is nice because you can even compare files from 
two differing formats (e.g., FLAC and WavPack), and it's not affected by 
tags.