Hi,

When I encode to APE 3.98b1 codec, in metadatas, there's a md5 hash...

But, when I compare with the hash of the APE file, it's not the same (normal, because the one stocked in metadata modifies the APE hash), and this is not the md5 hash of the decoded file too

I don't know what hash it is... and how to verify the file is correct, from the md5 hash in metadata...

Thanks for help me (if u understood me, I'm not english)

i would assume it is verifying the stream?

mac file -v

The MD5 of file, which contains data and the MD5 of this data, is always different from the hash of
whole file.

It is principly not possible to store a crypto hash of a file inside the file.

Well, FLAC's reference encoder stores the md5sum of the decoded data inside FLAC files.

IMHO I'd guess the Monkey's Audio encoder is doing the same thing.

monkey's md5 hash seems to be md5(compressed data) not md5(decompressed data).
Change compression level, and the hash changes.

Yes, I understood that, but what hash is it so?


OK thx I didn't test that...



But I don't know what hash is it

Write down the MD5 hash, remove the tag and to a MD5 on the tagless file.