Topic: TLH solution for Ubuntu/nix?

[BlingFree]

Recently installed Ubuntu Studio and before I install WINE and use TLH that way... is there anything native to Linux that compares?

[jacobmyers]

 Oh! That looks like just the thing I've been searching for. I found a bunch of stuff when I searched for "FLAC" in Synaptic but didn't find an all-in-one frontend like that. I don't recall even finding anything that'd do FFP's (which are required for submitting to archive.org) but I mustn't have been looking close enough. I'll try again when I'm at that machine...

[BlingFree]

Yeah I really couldnt find anything. Traders Little Helper seems to function ok with WINE. Not all options are available but its still the best thing so far. Hopefully TLH writers release a linux version.

[SmokinJoe]

Dudes, if you are going to use Linux, forget about wine. Real men type funky commands. 

Use command line "flac":
converting wav>flac: flac *.wav
converting flac>wav: flac -d *.flac
and more commonly I use "nice flac -delete-input-file *.wav" will convert wavs to flacs and remove the original wavs
I use that often enough that I add this line to my .bashrc alias nfdif='nice flac --delete-input-file'
so I can just type nfdif *.wav

checking:
md5sum -c somefile.md5
creating:
md5sum -b *.flac > somefile.md5
unix2dos somefile.md5  (play nice with others)

generating ffp files, I use this script called 'genffp'
#! /bin/bash
for i in *.flac; do
    echo "$i:`metaflac --list \"$i\" | grep MD5 | cut -d: -f2 | cut -c2-`";
    done
exit
and then type genffp > somefile.ffp followed by unix2dos !$ (where !$ is last parameter of last command, saves typing somefile.ffp

[newscane]

Dudes, if you are going to use Linux, forget about wine. Real men type funky commands. 

Use command line "flac":
converting wav>flac: flac *.wav
converting flac>wav: flac -d *.flac
and more commonly I use "nice flac -delete-input-file *.wav" will convert wavs to flacs and remove the original wavs
I use that often enough that I add this line to my .bashrc alias nfdif='nice flac --delete-input-file'
so I can just type nfdif *.wav

checking:
md5sum -c somefile.md5
creating:
md5sum -b *.flac > somefile.md5
unix2dos somefile.md5  (play nice with others)

generating ffp files, I use this script called 'genffp'
#! /bin/bash
for i in *.flac; do
    echo "$i:`metaflac --list \"$i\" | grep MD5 | cut -d: -f2 | cut -c2-`";
    done
exit
and then type genffp > somefile.ffp followed by unix2dos !$ (where !$ is last parameter of last command, saves typing somefile.ffp

I was having issues w/ the md5sum command to check md5s the other day.  Did a google search and came across this little thing:
http://etree-scripts.sourceforge.net/

There are scripts for checking md5s, and other things.  There's one called "flacify"... I think you can imagine out what it does

[BlingFree]

I like TLH... what can i say?! 

It works real well with WINE. i've only had one freeze up problem and that was due to my impatience.

[SmokinJoe]

I was having issues w/ the md5sum command to check md5s the other day.  Did a google search and came across this little thing:
http://etree-scripts.sourceforge.net/

There are scripts for checking md5s, and other things.  There's one called "flacify"... I think you can imagine out what it does

Those are good.  I'm a programmer by trade, so I like to roll my own scripts... what can I say.

[jacobmyers]

 I use metaflac for generating FFP; I found a single line that reads checksums for all the FLAC files in a folder and spits them into a textfile (with whatever name you specify). I wrote it down near the studio computer (and I'm not there now) but it's something like:

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metaflac --show-md5sums --with-filename /[yourfolder]/*.flac >> /[yourfolder]/[blah].ffp.txt
 I'll edit that tomorrow if it's not correct...

 Audacity has a pretty good built-in tagging system that allows for templates (so you only have to type your contact/gear info once). You can use a "Label track" to - aptly - label the tracks as you export them as FLAC. This, along with the template that you fill out before actually exporting, makes fine tags. And the comment field can be written (and saved as a template) beforehand if you want to save your contact info, gear notes, etc. in the comment field and keep it consistent between releases (recorded on the same gear). So yeah; I found that I could make do with what I have from Ubuntu Studio 8.04...

[spott]

Just a heads-up (for those interested), there's a 1.0-rc2 of Wine release the other day - not the 'best' route to go (IMO) but maybe this new version will be a bit more refined http://winehq.org/?announce=1.0-rc2