Topic: FLAC Fingerprint help

[tapinfool]

obviously i used the search, i am having this exact same problem and it's driving me insane.  why can't i create a fingerprint file??

i have the latest version of flac installed.  i open the flac program and click the add button.  then i browse to the folder where the songs are that i want to fingerprint, and i highlight them all and they appear in the main flac window.  it is one concert and all files are named in this formant:  band-yyyy-mm-dd-d1t*.flac

I click the fingerprint file and box opens asking me to name the file, default ext of .txt.  i have this without the actual file existing(ie, create a new file with ffp info) and i have tried this after creating an empty text file with the name X.txt and also band-yyyy-mm-dd.txt.  nothing works.  wtf i am missing?  it's gotta be obvious but i cannot for the life of me figure this out.  i have tried highlighting all the files(ie shift + click) and also just one at a time or none at all. 

any special buttons need to be checked?  i unchecked the delete files button...i just get a super fast blip which i assume is the cmd prompt and then nothing.  for the love of god help me. 

i also totally f*cked up the torrent i tried to seed but that's another story.  try and be a nice guy and all i do is create a mess. 

thanks.

i have had the EXACT same prob's

that's why none of my recordings have been fingerprinted.

i've tried everything mentioned here and still no luck.

i'm just gonna get someone over here that can do it and show me in person.

this has been drivin' me nuts for a good while now

[F.O.Bean]

i avoid all of this confusion by using FLAC frontend to FLAC the wavs and use md5 to make the FFP file.

i never knew md5 can make ffp's

[Gedit]

i avoid all of this confusion by using FLAC frontend to FLAC the wavs and use md5 to make the FFP file.

i never knew md5 can make ffp's

that's the only reason i use it. and it's fast.

[F.O.Bean]

i avoid all of this confusion by using FLAC frontend to FLAC the wavs and use md5 to make the FFP file.

i never knew md5 can make ffp's

that's the only reason i use it. and it's fast.

how do you do that? w/ mkwact?

[Gedit]

http://www.md5summer.org

[F.O.Bean]

ahh, ok, thanks, ive only used md5summer a few times and didnt care for it

[Gedit]

bean , i just use it for ffp generation. pretty straightforward for that. i have no idea what else it does 

[MattD]

As far as I know, MD5 can't generate an FFP. The FFP is the checksum for the WAVE DATA in the file. An MD5 is the checksum for the file itself. If you change the tags or compression level, for example, the MD5 will also change, but the FFP will not.

[F.O.Bean]

bean , i just use it for ffp generation. pretty straightforward for that. i have no idea what else it does 

you dont make md5's for your files? you should start bud!

[Gedit]

bean , i just use it for ffp generation. pretty straightforward for that. i have no idea what else it does 

you dont make md5's for your files? you should start bud!

i ue flac frontend for flacing files, and md5 to geneeate the ffp text file - all of this for uploading to LMA. What else do i need to use md5 for?

[F.O.Bean]

bean , i just use it for ffp generation. pretty straightforward for that. i have no idea what else it does 

you dont make md5's for your files? you should start bud!

i ue flac frontend for flacing files, and md5 to geneeate the ffp text file - all of this for uploading to LMA. What else do i need to use md5 for?

make an mnd5 of the whole folder, its a checksumming device to see if all of the files are there and correct, if anything happens to your burn/upload, the md5 will be able to tell, it does a bit for bit check of the whole folder

[Gedit]

bean , i just use it for ffp generation. pretty straightforward for that. i have no idea what else it does 

you dont make md5's for your files? you should start bud!

i ue flac frontend for flacing files, and md5 to geneeate the ffp text file - all of this for uploading to LMA. What else do i need to use md5 for?

make an mnd5 of the whole folder, its a checksumming device to see if all of the files are there and correct, if anything happens to your burn/upload, the md5 will be able to tell, it does a bit for bit check of the whole folder

okay. that makes sense. thanks for the tip +T