MP3 Tagging

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MP3 Tagging

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If you have a few unidentified MP3s or OGGs lying around your harddrive and you can't figure out what they are, well, there's really no way to identify them unless someone recognizes the song for you (not too bad for songs with lyrics but a terror for instrumental songs).

But if we extended ID3 or OGG's tags to included hashes of the original files on the disk, this problem would be alleviated. No matter what your compression, what your filetype, songs that came from the same disk would always have a unique identifier.

The only problem then would be reconfiguring the song databases so that they had the hashes of all the CDs ever made (which is no small task). And it probably would help illegal MP3 swapping (which is no incentive to do it either). Meh, it's a good idea, but it's too impractical.
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