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Re:Schroedinger's streaming service just died by AlexandrB on Friday June 24, 2022 @07:43AM (#31860334)
As someone who loves organizing my music, a file hash would be a shitty solution. I want to be able to edit tags and transcode the song (e.g. for iTunes compatibility) without losing ownership.
Re:Schroedinger's streaming service just died by yellowapple on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:08AM (#31890779)
As long as you retain the original (which you probably should anyway, especially if you're converting to a lossy format or downloaded it that way in the first place) and can redo the conversion on demand, I don't expect that to be much of an issue.

A Shazam-esque audio fingerprinting approach could work here, too (though obviously IPFS won't give you that for free like it would a file hash). Might be troublesome for remixes, though.