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 ===Conflicting data===
-The main challenge, for both systems, lies in the fact that extracting metadata is not an exact science, or at least not trivial: Different clients are bound to come up with different data which means that the system has to handle conflicting data one way or the other. This issue has basically been evaded by only having one trusted client (and version) which is Avdump (.31) ATM. AOM does still issue autocreqs but only hash sums and duration are included and only for files that are not already verified by Avdump. Data from Avdump will override data from AOM if they should differ (never happened for hash sums).
+The main challenge, for both systems, lies in the fact that extracting metadata is not an exact science, or at least not trivial: Different clients are bound to come up with different data which means that the system has to handle conflicting data one way or the other. This issue has basically been evaded by only having one trusted client (and version) which is Avdump (.31) ATM. AOM does still issue auto-creqs but only hash sums and duration are included and only for files that are not already verified by Avdump. Data from Avdump will override data from AOM if they should differ (never happened for hash sums).
 Avdump is supposed to be a shared library that all clients can use for auto-creqing, though. It is however not clear how it should be done yet.