Topic: SBE/SHN Tool Question....

[Nick Graham]

I've run into an issue lately with SHN Tool results that are similar to what's below. What's with the uppercase B all the way down? Is everything ok with this fileset? If I remember correctly if there are errors won't there be a lowercase b under the "Problems" column?

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
     4:49.10       51003164 B   ---   --   ---xx  theloft2008-02-23.483.d1t01.flac
     5:01.16       53134076 B   ---   --   ---xx  theloft2008-02-23.483.d1t02.flac
     3:30.71       37211036 B   ---   --   ---xx  theloft2008-02-23.483.d1t03.flac
     4:04.70       43206284 B   ---   --   ---xx  theloft2008-02-23.483.d1t04.flac
     6:50.15       72359324 B   ---   --   ---xx  theloft2008-02-23.483.d1t05.flac
     5:18.58       56231660 B   ---   --   ---xx  theloft2008-02-23.483.d1t06.flac
     3:56.34       41710412 B   ---   --   ---xx  theloft2008-02-23.483.d1t07.flac
     3:17.19       34795532 B   ---   --   ---xx  theloft2008-02-23.483.d1t08.flac
     6:59.16       73949276 B   ---   --   ---xx  theloft2008-02-23.483.d1t09.flac
     5:28.68       58019180 B   ---   --   ---xx  theloft2008-02-23.483.d1t10.flac
     5:35.37       59181068 B   ---   --   ---xx  theloft2008-02-23.483.d1t11.flac
     4:08.52       43869548 B   ---   --   ---xx  theloft2008-02-23.483.d1t12.flac
    59:01.16      624670560 B                            0.5462  (12 files)

[anonymous_user]

Hey. I'm actually not sure why the B is there on every line, but everything looks fine. I've always figured it stands for Bytes, since that's how the filesizes are listed. I always get the uppercase B on just the last line though, ie the 'totals' line only, and that's how it's always been for every fileset I've checked.

Regardless, your files don't have SBE's. SBE's would be listed with a lowercase b in the 'cdr' column. More over, if you want to be sure, you can always switch over to Trader's Little Helper, which is just shntool but with an easy GUI and maybe a few more features. Then you'd always get a verification message that specifically says "There were no sector boundary errors", or a message saying that there were. Hope that helps.

[pmonk66]

That B is some sort of riff chuck that is part of the wav file.

Check to see what bit type the file is? (8,16,24,etc...)

[Nick Graham]

+T guys

I figured everything was ok, just that "B" was new and somewhat worrying.

[Gordon]

it seems to only be the new version of shntool which tlh uses

[wharfrat73]

That "B" does stand for bytes.

If you work from the command line do this:

shntool len -u mb -U mb *.flac or whatever format to get:

     4:18.36          43.48 MB  ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6911  gd84-04-13d1t01.flac etc.

-u changes the unit of measure for files.
-U changes the totals:

152:15.73        1536.93 MB                           0.6433  (21 files)

If you're using TLH go to options, prefereces, analysis, show audio file details to change the file size to bytes, kb, mb, gb, tb.

Also see: http://etree.org/shnutils/shntool/support/doc/shntool.txt

MODE-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
   len mode options
       -U unit
              Specifies the unit in which the totals will be printed.  unit is
              one of: {b, kb, mb, gb, tb}.  The default is b.

       -c     Do not show column names

       -t     Do not show totals line

       -u unit
              Specifies the unit in which each file will be printed.  unit  is
              one of: {b, kb, mb, gb, tb}.  The default is b.