How can I get an sha1 hash in base32?

[Elmo Mäntynen]

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 23:27:44 +0200, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:

> In <pan.2005.07.23.20.26.33.959936 at jippii.fi>, Elmo Mäntynen wrote:
> 
>> I know how to make a hash(using mhash), but instead of encoded as hex I
>> want it in base32 for use with the bitzi catalog. python-bitzi is useful
>> but way too slow for just getting the hash of a file(am going to use it
>> elsewhere). Thanks.
> 
> Doesn't Bitzi calculate some kind of audio fingerprint?  Just a hash of
> the file would result in very different hash values for different codecs,
> bitrates etc. for the "same" audio data.
> 
> Ciao,
> 	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

I don't think it does, but musicbrainz is designed for just that, and
there's a ptyhon binding for using the libs.

Elmo