[ProAudio] MD5 programs for Mac OS 10.15 and later on M1

Richard L. Hess lists at richardhess.com
Mon Jan 16 10:14:10 PST 2023


Have you tried this?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/md5-master/id1244747556?mt=12

For those suggesting a more secure hash, I'm all for that, but the 
two-decades or more momentum is to use MD5s. We're not talking about 
James Bond spy stuff...we just want to know that Dropbox, our RAID 
array, whatever hasn't flipped a bit on us. I'll admit, I'm seeing 
virtually no glitches, but it adds peace of mind.

The thing that most of the suggestions are missing is that there is a 
workflow issue that seems to have become standard in some quarters.

 From a current quad project I'm working on, are two filenames--the 
audio and the checksum file:
Whale_Piece_LF_Decoded_M24.wav
Whale_Piece_LF_Decoded_M24.wav.md5

The .md5 file contains one line of text

E7F0905235FBDBFAFE56FD52313DFA11 *Whale_Piece_LF_Decoded_M24.wav

This is produced by http://getmd5checker.com/ and it is a complete 
drag-and-drop Windows application for generating and verifying.

Prior to that, I was using FastSum, but no longer recommend it as 
md5checker is so much nicer to use and seems more stable. FastSum puts 
some commented out lines in the .md5 file.

UNFORTUNATELY, NO MAC:

> *Current version:* 3.3
>
> *For Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7*
>
> Link (ZIP) 	MD5 checksum (EXE) 	Bytes (EXE)
> English 
> <http://getmd5checker.com/downloads/Md5Checker/3.3.0.12/Md5Checker.zip> 
> 	5932FE928F9BBBBD7CE502D44AB57616 	308,224
> Simplified Chinese 
> <http://getmd5checker.com/downloads/Md5Checker/3.3.0.12/Md5CheckerCn.zip> 
> 	E0EED0F39D038118F3249E13E59C425E 	306,176
>
> *For Windows 95/98/Me*
>
> Link (ZIP) 	MD5 checksum (EXE) 	Bytes (EXE)
> English 
> <http://getmd5checker.com/downloads/Md5Checker/3.3.0.12/Md5Checker9x.zip> 
> 	961E7E4B4C3F96BE9A66AF6A93BC4120 	294,912
> Simplified Chinese 
> <http://getmd5checker.com/downloads/Md5Checker/3.3.0.12/Md5Checker9xCn.zip> 
> 	C02C4A29EB996DC3164E58ABA6C0ABD6 	294,912
>
Now, I don't know if that could operate in a compatibility window of 
some sort on a Mac.

And although it doesn't list Win 10/11, the NT version works fine on W10.

But I read David's original question to mean something to do the whole 
workflow.

Cheers,

Richard


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