Dime is so lame... WTF?
DIME is rejecting my torrent of FLAC files because the fingerprint file has a name ending in .txt or .ffp.txt instead of .ffp. What can I do?
under Windows
Speek's Flac Front-End for Windows and Mike Wren's modification of it force a .txt filetype extension when they save a file of fingerprints. If you specify a name ending in .ffp, Flac Front-End just adds ".txt" after that and you get a name ending in .ffp.txt.
Unfortunately, by default Windows is configured to hide filename extensions and not to let you change them. (As a result, if the filename ends in .ffp.txt, you'll see only “.ffp” and you may think it's OK, except that its icon will be the one for the .txt filetype.) Here are some ways to take care of that:
Set Folder Options in Windows not to hide filename extensions for known filetypes, and then rename the file to a name that ends in .ffp instead.
Open the .txt file with Notepad, select File->Save As, and save a copy with a name that ends in .ffp. This works even if Windows’ Folder Options are still set to hide filename extensions. You can then delete the original .txt file of fingerprints that Flac Front-End created.
Use Pierre-Marie Devigne's Filetype Changing Add-on,
or
Create your fingerprint files with Robert Hoffmann's Trader's Little Helper, which uses the correct extension.