Topic: Yet another first timer to Archive dot Org

[TenoRichards]

Hey y'all. Can you give me a bit of help please. I'm learning how to use the Archive naming structure....getting ready to do my first contribution. I haven't decided which will be my first, but I've got footage of a concert I taped w/ Gumbino of Rose Hill Drive in Houston, and the Renaissance group I taped here in France a few days ago. Either way, I need a bit of guidance.

1. I tracked the show in CDwave and saved the concert as flacs. So, I have 16 flac files. Ok. Now....to make a fingerprint, I go to Flac FE and load in the flac'd files. Those files names would like something like....

(btw, ec stands for Ensemble Convivencia....the vocal Qtet I taped...)

ec2006-06-02-d1t01-1644-dpa.flac
ec2006-06-02-d1t02-1644-dpa.flac
ec2006-06-02-d1t03-1644-dpa.flac

and so on and so on.....

2. Then I put those flac'd into FFE and fingerprint, getting a txt file (named ec2006-06-02-ffp.txt) that reads

ec2006-06-02-d1t01-1644-dpa.flac:00ef5de98431b9586dd45c29df1b1fd1
ec2006-06-02-d1t02-1644-dpa.flac:ac80199270b2b08be22a1ecc2d16171f
ec2006-06-02-d1t03-1644-dpa.flac:fe246c41ed146de2db6fd12606c8795c

and so on and so on....

What do I do about the md5 check sum? Is this just for shn files and not flac??

3. Then in the top directory I also put a show info file called:

ec2006-06-02.txt which could contain basically any onformation i felt pertinant to the show? Mics, j-disc placement, location...weather?? Correct?

Then, artist permission must be obtained, and I get in touch w/ Archive and the artist and get them to sign things? Oui??

So, then ftp it as per their instructions and we're done? Does this sound right?

A sample of the concert I taped is found at:

www.tenorrichards.com/EC/ec2006-06-02-d1t01-1644-dpa.flac

I'm pretty happy with it

[bconnolly]

I'm not 100% but I don't think the filenames should have anything but "bandnameYEAR-MONTH-DAYd#t#.flac"

[greenone]

1. I tracked the show in CDwave and saved the concert as flacs. So, I have 16 flac files. Ok. Now....to make a fingerprint, I go to Flac FE and load in the flac'd files. Those files names would like something like....
ec2006-06-02-d1t01-1644-dpa.flac

You can probably just name these files ec2006-06-02d1t01.flac, etc., but the extra info won't affect your upload at all. You can put the source info somewhere in the FLAC metatags (not sure how to do that in FFE but it shouldn't be too hard) rather than in the filename, but the way you did it isn't wrong, per se.

2. Then I put those flac'd into FFE and fingerprint, getting a txt file (named ec2006-06-02-ffp.txt) that reads

ec2006-06-02-d1t01-1644-dpa.flac:00ef5de98431b9586dd45c29df1b1fd1
ec2006-06-02-d1t02-1644-dpa.flac:ac80199270b2b08be22a1ecc2d16171f
ec2006-06-02-d1t03-1644-dpa.flac:fe246c41ed146de2db6fd12606c8795c

and so on and so on....

What do I do about the md5 check sum? Is this just for shn files and not flac??

Yup - md5 is for SHN files, FFP is for FLAC files. You actually don't need either one to upload to archive.org, but it's nice to do. If you don't, one will be created for you based on the files that are there, but if you accidentally upload a corrupted file, you'll get a correct checksum for a bad file. Not good. Best to create an MD5 or FFP based on your known, good files, and upload it with the rest of 'em.

3. Then in the top directory I also put a show info file called:

ec2006-06-02.txt which could contain basically any onformation i felt pertinant to the show? Mics, j-disc placement, location...weather?? Correct?

Then, artist permission must be obtained, and I get in touch w/ Archive and the artist and get them to sign things? Oui??

So, then ftp it as per their instructions and we're done? Does this sound right?

Bingo, bingo, and bingo. Sounds like you've got it!

[TenoRichards]

Thanks guys. +t to you both
AR

[F.O.Bean]

i still include an md5 for every fileset i upload/tape, even for flacs, that way i can check the md5 at any given time

[TenoRichards]

How does one make an md5? Esplain Lucieeeeeeeeeee.

(thanks, Bean.)
AR

[thegreatgumbino]

How does one make an md5? Esplain Lucieeeeeeeeeee.

(thanks, Bean.)
AR

I use MD5 Summer.  It's available here:  http://www.md5summer.org/ and is really easy to use.  There's an easy to follow how to on the webpage.

[greenone]

One note about md5's for FLAC filesets is that if the metadata is changed in any way, the md5 will fail - but the FLACs will still be valid files, decompress without errors, and contain the same audio information inside. The FFP, on the other hand, is a fingerprint of the audio information only, but can only be created for FLAC sets. Both have their use but I thought I'd point that out.