Two macusers at macworld do the verification for Gracenote. One listens to the myspace song then tells the other user what it sounded like or some lyrics from the song and asks user 2 if he's heard it before. If he says "yea, it's on the radio", user one goes "oh yeah" and it's deleted. No false positives, a lot of missed ones though.
If we're worried about losing data between the flash memory and the hard drive (like if it fails before it's hard written) why don't we make them redundant? flash is going to be cheap enough that putting two separate modules in shouldn't be that difficult.
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Two macusers at macworld do the verification for Gracenote. One listens to the myspace song then tells the other user what it sounded like or some lyrics from the song and asks user 2 if he's heard it before. If he says "yea, it's on the radio", user one goes "oh yeah" and it's deleted. No false positives, a lot of missed ones though.
If we're worried about losing data between the flash memory and the hard drive (like if it fails before it's hard written) why don't we make them redundant? flash is going to be cheap enough that putting two separate modules in shouldn't be that difficult.