Great info. I found some descriptions of st5 (md5 fp) and ffp, where I assume that "fp" is just a Taper abbreviation for "fingerprint" - or signature as it's called in the flac header. However, I could not find these utilities or source code. What I found looked like instructions for a gui-based program. I think it would be easier to support Mac if st5 were available as an open source Unix command-line code, which would include Mac OS X. I did a little research, and I am concerned that md5check computes an md5 signature for the entire wav file, not just the audio. Thus it won't compare with the ffp. Apparently, xACT allows you to create the st5 (shn md5) files. But the original poster and I want a command-line solution to create an st5 for comparison against metaflac's report. I think I have xACT, but I don't want to be grabbing the mouse and clicking dialogs when I want to check a whole directory of file signatures. Any Tapers around? Maybe someone can clarify this for us newcomers to st5. Brian On Feb 8, 2008, at 00:01, rappard@dds.nl wrote:> I have a wav file and would like to see what the flac fingerprint > would be. > > To do this I run flac to encode the wav file and write the flac > file to the > hard disk. I then run metaflac to read the flac file and display the > fingerprint. > > Is there an existing way or other utility to do this without > generating the > flac file on the hard disk. I would think it could be quicker and > save time > without writing the flac file to the hard disk.Can't you generate the st5 file for the wav file? If I recall correctly st5=ffp for flac files.
shntool (http://etree.org/shnutils/, http://shnutils.freeshell.org/) is Windows-only, but the source is available.> Great info. I found some descriptions of st5 (md5 fp) and ffp, where I > assume that "fp" is just a Taper abbreviation for "fingerprint" - or > signature as it's called in the flac header. However, I could not find > these utilities or source code. What I found looked like instructions > for a gui-based program. I think it would be easier to support Mac if > st5 were available as an open source Unix command-line code, which > would include Mac OS X. > > I did a little research, and I am concerned that md5check computes an > md5 signature for the entire wav file, not just the audio. Thus it > won't compare with the ffp. > > Apparently, xACT allows you to create the st5 (shn md5) files. But the > original poster and I want a command-line solution to create an st5 for > comparison against metaflac's report. I think I have xACT, but I don't > want to be grabbing the mouse and clicking dialogs when I want to check > a whole directory of file signatures. > > Any Tapers around? Maybe someone can clarify this for us newcomers to st5. > > Brian > > > On Feb 8, 2008, at 00:01, rappard@dds.nl wrote: >> I have a wav file and would like to see what the flac fingerprint would be. >> >> To do this I run flac to encode the wav file and write the flac file to the >> hard disk. I then run metaflac to read the flac file and display the >> fingerprint. >> >> Is there an existing way or other utility to do this without generating the >> flac file on the hard disk. I would think it could be quicker and save time >> without writing the flac file to the hard disk. > Can't you generate the st5 file for the wav file? If I recall correctly > st5=ffp for flac files.
Thanks! shntool is actually compatible with Windows, Unix, and Mac OS X. They only make the Windows binary available for easy download. However, in just a matter of seconds, I was able to download, build, and install shntool for Mac OS X. Works like a charm. Gotta love open source. P.S. I contributed to shorten, so technically I "paid" for this open source. ;-) I was able to generate a shntool hash for a wav file, then compress it with flac and confirm that the signatures matched after running metaflac --show-md5 Thanks for asking this question, Jeff. You've probably saved me some time with my backups. I generally run flac and then cmp the files to make sure my current file matches my backup, but that sometimes gives a false failure report. Now I can just use shntool hash on the uncompressed file and metaflac --show-md5 on the optical backup, and be good. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Feb 8, 2008, at 02:05, rappard@dds.nl wrote: shntool (http://etree.org/shnutils/, http://shnutils.freeshell.org/) is Windows-only, but the source is available.