> > > 4. Please start a thread on 'developer' to talk about how the
> > > data integrity will be insured (md5sum, gpg, etc) so that
> > > the Quran application will ONLY work with authentic data
> > > given all of this is open source, etc.
> >
> > well, i took a look at one Quran CD i had, and the formats are just
Wav
> > and bmp... the sound of the Shiekh Reading is in Wave, one Wave file
for
> > each "Aya", and all files named according to the Soura and Aya, like
for
> > example "Goz2 1" /G01/S1A1.wav <--thats Soura 1, aya 1..
> > and the Quran Text is Stored as an image file, just 1 big image file,
> > about 65 MB... its not a bmp though, and not compressed in any way,
its
> > just a format they invented could easily be cracked, if you give it a
> > couple of hours... and one more file, its a text file, its a list of 4
> > numbers per line, space separated... 1 line for each "Aya", and 3
other
> > numbers, im guessing they describe where the text belonging to this
aya
> > is on the big image file, because, each aya thats being read is shown
in
> > red...
>
> Yeah, what they have doesn't really concern us - the data files we will
be
> using are plain UTF-8 text and as such we need to be clever about how
the
> data will be protected and how to insure that the application will only
> function with said authenticated data.
>
> Mohammed.Yousif, do please let us know what you have in mind for those
> looking to work on this (at last count there were about 3 people).
>
There have been some problems with the project (again). I think
the release date will be delayed again.