RE: How best to collect stats for xplrionet play top 10 20 etc

["UKHA" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tony,

On 03/03/2005 at 11:11 Tony Tofts wrote:

>> The table, once generated, can be used to find the real id of
>> a track/album and allow you to click it to add to the playlist
etc..
>
>So how do I create an md5 checksum?
>
>I can encrypt a string (actually a byte array) using md5, but any idea
how
>I
>sum the bits please?
>

Err, why... the source string (array) being encoded consists of the track
detail not an md5 sum of each element;s md5 added

Artist name + album name + track title

ie:

My Artist Name My Album Name My Track Title

literally generates

19ae0f498e8487add6fff0ea4b581c8b

(hex)

Even tiny changes result in a different value,

My Artist Name My Album name My Track Title

generates

737387eb3f3662d12218e40f656f9209

(hex) -  the only change in the source text is the 'n' in 'My Album Name'
is lower case in the 2nd example.


HTH

Andy




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