How can I get an sha1 hash in base32?

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch bj_666 at gmx.net
Sat Jul 23 17:27:44 EDT 2005


In <pan.2005.07.23.20.26.33.959936 at jippii.fi>, Elmo Mäntynen wrote:

> I know how to make a hash(using mhash), but instead of encoded as hex I
> want it in base32 for use with the bitzi catalog. python-bitzi is useful
> but way too slow for just getting the hash of a file(am going to use it
> elsewhere). Thanks.

Doesn't Bitzi calculate some kind of audio fingerprint?  Just a hash of
the file would result in very different hash values for different codecs,
bitrates etc. for the "same" audio data.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch



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