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Surely there is in fact a way, at least much of the time. In general, I assume encoding a digitized song with a given codec and quality settings is deterministi
by podperson 16y ago
Surely there is in fact a way, at least much of the time. In general, I assume encoding a digitized song with a given codec and quality settings is deterministic, so the files have some chance of being identical. Next, if the track were identified using a common process (e.g. CDDB) it might easily be possible to identify them as being identical in origin and then perform some tests to see if they are in fact identical and convert one into a pointer to the other.
- tzury 16y agohash is the right (and only) way to do this.
- podperson 16y agoMy suggested approach assumes hash as a baseline approach (identify actually identical files -- which DropBox is apparently already doing) and goes beyond this (identify files that are identical in source and intent, but different owing to random trivial errors).