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

[David Glasser]

Hi Richard,

Yes, I’ve looked at this - it only calculates the MD5 value; does not output a .MD5 file. No checksum verification function. The ONLY program that does exactly what I needed is MD5.app which only works on older machines. 

Thanks for your detailed response.


David Glasser
Chief Engineer

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> On Jan 16, 2023, at 11:14 AM, Richard L. Hess via ProAudio <proaudio at bach.pgm.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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