Topic: FLAC Fingerprint help

[el gato]

I am having issues while trying to make a fingerprint.  I place the flacs in frontend hit the fingerprint button.  I then select the save location and hit save.  When I go to the saved location the file is not there.  I have searched the entire c drive with no luck.  I also tried to save to a floppy but to no avail.  Everything else on the the program works fine except trying to access the help button.  The screen blinks as if a new window is opening but there is no way to access it.  I found a reference to this on http://wiki.etree.org/index.php?page=FlacFaq, but cannot find a way to fix the problem.  Any help would be appreciated.


Thanks

[Ed.]

i know it sounds funny, but did you name the file?

[F.O.Bean]

also, in my experience w/ fingerprinting, i hit fingerprint, then pick a notepad place to save it(ie, ph1998-12-29), then i close flac frontend, open the notepad in notepad, and there it is, THEN i save again in an open notepad, this works 100% of the time for me

good luck

bean

[MattD]

also, in my experience w/ fingerprinting, i hit fingerprint, then pick a notepad place to save it(ie, ph1998-12-29), then i close flac frontend, open the notepad in notepad, and there it is, THEN i save again in an open notepad, this works 100% of the time for me

In Bean's defense, he posted at 6:30 AM. I have no clue what he's saying, either.

[rdptha2nd]

also, in my experience w/ fingerprinting, i hit fingerprint, then pick a notepad place to save it(ie, ph1998-12-29), then i close flac frontend, open the notepad in notepad, and there it is, THEN i save again in an open notepad, this works 100% of the time for me

In Bean's defense, he posted at 6:30 AM. I have no clue what he's saying, either.

I am with you on that one....+T to bean for making that sound like he knows what he is talking about without anyone else knowing what he is talking about

[heath]

+T to bean for being nonsensical in the morning.

[el gato]

i know it sounds funny, but did you name the file?

I double checked that too..even tried to give it a different name so that I didn't over look it

[el gato]

also, in my experience w/ fingerprinting, i hit fingerprint, then pick a notepad place to save it(ie, ph1998-12-29), then i close flac frontend, open the notepad in notepad, and there it is, THEN i save again in an open notepad, this works 100% of the time for me

good luck

bean

I think i understand what your saying, but when I reopen notepad to locate the file it is not listed...I think I'm grasping at straws here but could windows service pack 2 possibly have screwed this up?

[Todd R]

Just another guess, but you are you sure you loaded up the flac files to make a fingerprint?  Sometimes I screw up and try to immediately make a fingerprint of the .wavs that were previously in the flac frontend queue for making the flacs files, and that doesn't work.  Another possible goof, but maybe that's your problem.

[el gato]

I doubled checked that also.  I have even tried to to manually make one by using flac -ffp in the run section,  and all I get is a quick "blip" of the black program screen and that is all (I do not get that if I try hitting the fingerprint tab in frontend).  I think there is a bigger problen with my system not allowing the program to run properly.  Thanks to everyone for the help and suggestions.  If I can figure out what happened I will let you know.  Thanks Again

Tom

[F.O.Bean]

I doubled checked that also.  I have even tried to to manually make one by using flac -ffp in the run section,  and all I get is a quick "blip" of the black program screen and that is all (I do not get that if I try hitting the fingerprint tab in frontend).  I think there is a bigger problen with my system not allowing the program to run properly.  Thanks to everyone for the help and suggestions.  If I can figure out what happened I will let you know.  Thanks Again

Tom

you SHOULD be getting that quick 'blip' black screen that windows pops up REAL quick, when fingerprinting properly, FWIW

[Brian Skalinder]

I click the fingerprint file and box opens asking me to name the file, default ext of .txt.

Did you also navigate to the directory in which you want the FFP to reside?  I believe the default directory is the FLAC home directory, not the location of the FLAC files you're trying to fingerprint.

You might also try generating the FFP from a command line - the results won't disappear and you can see if there are any errors:

To create an ffp file using the standard .flac command line tools type "metaflac --show-md5sum flac_file_names > ffp.txt" When you generate a flac fingerprint file, it is merely a readout and compilation of the internally stored checksums from each of the flac files.

[Brian Skalinder]

there is a box on the bottom of the screen for output directory, that is set to "same as input dir"

IME that checkbox applies to generating FLACs only, not the FFP.  When generating the FFP, I have to manually select the proper directory every time.  Good luck!

[scb]

just use this to make a damn fingerprint!

http://crush.epix.net/~scb/xactwin/xACT0.5.3.zip



and yes the app as a whole still sucks but i promise i'll make it better...

[Gedit]

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