NCDI/Checksum
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The checksum is handled by taking each track offset and summing them together, resulting in a "large number", which is then brought into the range of 0-4095 by applying mod4096.
- Q
- Why 4096?
- A
- Cos FFF in hex is a nice size for the checksum to be
- Q
- Why not 255 (FF) or 65536 (FFFF) then?
- A
- 255 and 65536 were both tested with a conversion script which generated NCDI's from the FreeDB database. 65536 gave no appreciable improvement for guaranteed uniqueness, and 255 was (awaiting actual data for this ;)
