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I have received, in a trade, a DVD containing FLAC files and WAV files. Now, some of the WAV files have the same filename as some of the FLAC files. Is there a way of doing a compare (other than listening to them :lol:) to check if the two sets of files are the same?

I'm using xACT and can't find a "compare" feature, and the documentation is... nonexistent?
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markfiend wrote:I have received, in a trade, a DVD containing FLAC files and WAV files. Now, some of the WAV files have the same filename as some of the FLAC files. Is there a way of doing a compare (other than listening to them :lol:) to check if the two sets of files are the same?

I'm using xACT and can't find a "compare" feature, and the documentation is... nonexistent?
use an md5 app to build checksums for both wav file sets and compare these - the numbers won't lie.
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Decompress the .flac files into .wav files and compare the two sets of .wav's.
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Ta. I think xACT has an md5 checksum thingy.
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wayne wrote:use an md5 app to build checksums for both wav file sets and compare these - the numbers won't lie.
Yeah the md5 checksums are the same. Poo.

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