[Flac] how to get flac fingerprint from a wav?

[Brian Willoughby]

Thanks!

shntool is actually compatible with Windows, Unix, and Mac OS X.   
They only make the Windows binary available for easy download.   
However, in just a matter of seconds, I was able to download, build,  
and install shntool for Mac OS X.  Works like a charm.  Gotta love  
open source.  P.S.  I contributed to shorten, so technically I "paid"  
for this open source. ;-)

I was able to generate a shntool hash for a wav file, then compress  
it with flac and confirm that the signatures matched after running  
metaflac --show-md5

Thanks for asking this question, Jeff.  You've probably saved me some  
time with my backups.  I generally run flac and then cmp the files to  
make sure my current file matches my backup, but that sometimes gives  
a false failure report.  Now I can just use shntool hash on the  
uncompressed file and metaflac --show-md5 on the optical backup, and  
be good.

Brian Willoughby
Sound Consulting


On Feb 8, 2008, at 02:05, rappard at dds.nl wrote:
shntool (http://etree.org/shnutils/, http://shnutils.freeshell.org/)  
is Windows-only, but the source is available.