[Flac-users] Re: viewing the fingerprint?

David W. Tamkin dattier at panix.com
Wed Aug 28 07:27:04 PDT 2002


I asked,

| > How does one display the fingerprint?

and Josh himself answered,

| metaflac --show-md5sum filename.flac

That's why I couldn't find it; I didn't think of trying metaflac instead of
flac.exe itself.  Thank you.

Josh added,

| Note that the FLAC MD5 sum is not the MD5 of the orignal WAV,
| just the audio data.

Hmm.  Thank you for pointing that out.  If ever someone compared a FLAC file's
stored fingerprint to a direct MD5 of the full WAV file, then, they would
differ.








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