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Some or all codec audio files created by dbpoweramp music converter have crc data embedded in them, correct? I know my flac and mp3 files indicate they do. What I don't know, is how a person would or could go about easily and fairly quickly verifying if files have become corrupt.
I found (just through web search) more info than I did now, on ffp (flac fingerprint) verification files. It now seems to me, if I understand correctly, that the flac will not decode without errors if it is corrupted? And I found a request here, again through web search, I don't know where it is... requesting ffp file creation, but from what I read, ffp files really are only particularly useful in identifying a recording source, etc.
I have hundreds of gigs of lossless (mostly flac) and lossy audio files, and had a situation a while back, in trying to retrieve many of them from a failing hard drive, about one in one hundred was corrupted. It was really a nightmare. I still occasionally trade shn/flac legitimate recordings of live concerts, and need to be able to verify the integrity of files.
So, I would also like to request, or know if there is any way existing already, to be able to verify the crc checksum embedded in the file. I think it would probably be a small thing... if the checksum embedded in flacs is the same checksum generated by metaflac.exe, that's even better.
Thanks a lot for the work.
Bob
I found (just through web search) more info than I did now, on ffp (flac fingerprint) verification files. It now seems to me, if I understand correctly, that the flac will not decode without errors if it is corrupted? And I found a request here, again through web search, I don't know where it is... requesting ffp file creation, but from what I read, ffp files really are only particularly useful in identifying a recording source, etc.
I have hundreds of gigs of lossless (mostly flac) and lossy audio files, and had a situation a while back, in trying to retrieve many of them from a failing hard drive, about one in one hundred was corrupted. It was really a nightmare. I still occasionally trade shn/flac legitimate recordings of live concerts, and need to be able to verify the integrity of files.
So, I would also like to request, or know if there is any way existing already, to be able to verify the crc checksum embedded in the file. I think it would probably be a small thing... if the checksum embedded in flacs is the same checksum generated by metaflac.exe, that's even better.
Thanks a lot for the work.
Bob
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