Great info. I found some descriptions of st5 (md5 fp) and ffp, where
I assume that "fp" is just a Taper abbreviation for "fingerprint" -
or signature as it's called in the flac header. However, I could not
find these utilities or source code. What I found looked like
instructions for a gui-based program. I think it would be easier to
support Mac if st5 were available as an open source Unix command-line
code, which would include Mac OS X.
I did a little research, and I am concerned that md5check computes an
md5 signature for the entire wav file, not just the audio. Thus it
won't compare with the ffp.
Apparently, xACT allows you to create the st5 (shn md5) files. But
the original poster and I want a command-line solution to create an
st5 for comparison against metaflac's report. I think I have xACT,
but I don't want to be grabbing the mouse and clicking dialogs when I
want to check a whole directory of file signatures.
Any Tapers around? Maybe someone can clarify this for us newcomers
to st5.
Brian
On Feb 8, 2008, at 00:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a wav file and would like to see what the flac fingerprint
would be.
To do this I run flac to encode the wav file and write the flac
file to the
hard disk. I then run metaflac to read the flac file and display the
fingerprint.
Is there an existing way or other utility to do this without
generating the
flac file on the hard disk. I would think it could be quicker and
save time
without writing the flac file to the hard disk.
Can't you generate the st5 file for the wav file? If I recall
correctly st5=ffp for flac files.
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