Trader's Little Helper

[mdshrk1]

Originally Posted by roann

Glad it works, though basically it's not a good idea to install a program to C:. Anyway, it seems to be a problem with the TLH installer that isn't really able to handle this properly. I'll try to fix the installer with the next TLH release.

Not to be a nit-picker, but how about spelling "occurred" right on the next release.....?

st5 fingerprints:

9a5b9b2a9bcac4a68a2b71341ccfa8c3 [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2901.flac
7d9173be22aeba7010e8d7cef0edb9ea [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2902.flac
26ce23b8129af52c2cc585333ef425d8 [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2903.flac
f23103b64389201e889878292044ef33 [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2904.flac
426edb4ea816d2439c7033d945e41ac6 [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2905.flac
e0d9cf2c3c622f2f57d114d2bc51528d [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2906.flac
3a072f987cc650f54a7b8e13b92689ca [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2907.flac
89a1f8639a2fa8b7e72f997d841a2397 [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2908.flac
7bb0258c9733ab0fa473501c174ef5fb [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2909.flac
8fca9cead715eda7919c5b9e88c511df [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2910.flac
31d96806099d93ae47d6e25750e45467 [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2911.flac
db3d9f38507ee5dd82f67f65117eed03 [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2912.flac
e3aedc5c8e144a4b7d66c9f540f8f406 [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2913.flac
7b677e8cab97067c721e85f8473044e2 [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2914.flac
247d4164555211c1d685c638eeae736e [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2915.flac
f3329418b52d43909e7926f777653ac6 [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2916.flac
6962620c30e790209d9d2dfcf87ee2c3 [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2917.flac
da8d4845805cf08d35fd22956b7ef835 [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2918.flac
513ef4182ed40a33827a8bdf73652de5 [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2919.flac
a84f7ff80a5f4b6f3b15f5f26806dacc [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2920.flac
8a0c561723b0e585785db516a885ec4d [shntool] lfwfmt 2016-02-2921.flac

No errors occured

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[dasmueller]

[wharfrat73]

Originally Posted by mdshrk1

Not to be a nit-picker, but how about spelling "occurred" right on the next release.....?

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Thank you.

[mdshrk1]

Love me some Trader's Little Helper....Thanks to you!

[wharfrat73]

I think one of the helper programs needs to be updated too. I cannot make a .ffp or verify files for certain types of .flac files. I'm using TLH v.2.7.0 build 172. I don't think that TLH checks to see if the helper programs are up to date. The latest .flac.exe is v.1.3.1. TLH installs v.1.2.1. I believe that shntool is also out of date.

I only use TLH as my second choice for various tasks with lossless files. I'm sure that other folks will run into this problem with newer .flac files as time goes by.

Thanks

[roann]

Originally Posted by wharfrat73

I think one of the helper programs needs to be updated too. I cannot make a .ffp or verify files for certain types of .flac files. I'm using TLH v.2.7.0 build 172. I don't think that TLH checks to see if the helper programs are up to date. The latest .flac.exe is v.1.3.1. TLH installs v.1.2.1. I believe that shntool is also out of date.

I only use TLH as my second choice for various tasks with lossless files. I'm sure that other folks will run into this problem with newer .flac files as time goes by.

Thanks

Could you be a bit more specific (what "certain types of .flac files" are you talking about, are there any TLH error messages, for example)?

[wharfrat73]

Originally Posted by roann

Could you be a bit more specific (what "certain types of .flac files" are you talking about, are there any TLH error messages, for example)?

Sorry, I thought mentioning that the helper programs were out of date was info enough.

For instance, with .flac encoded 5.1 LPCM Surround Sound Mix (48k) TLH reports that .flac "is not supported." TLH also reports "No errors occured." (sic).

TLH will create a valid .ffp checksum. It will not verify the .ffp. Verifying with up to date files works fine. I believe that metaflac.exe is the helper program that is the issue. I don't have time to check right now.

I hope this helps.

[roann]

Originally Posted by wharfrat73

Sorry, I thought mentioning that the helper programs were out of date was info enough.

For instance, with .flac encoded 5.1 LPCM Surround Sound Mix (48k) TLH reports that .flac "is not supported." TLH also reports "No errors occured." (sic).

TLH will create a valid .ffp checksum. It will not verify the .ffp. Verifying with up to date files works fine. I believe that metaflac.exe is the helper program that is the issue. I don't have time to check right now.

I hope this helps.

Thanks for the details! metaflac.exe isn't involved in verifying .ffp files. It's shntool.exe (no matter what release) that cannot handle this format...

[wharfrat73]

Like I said in my earlier post, they verify with the .ffp except in TLH.

[roann]

Originally Posted by wharfrat73

Like I said in my earlier post, they verify with the .ffp except in TLH.

???

[mike1061]

Probably means in the old Flac program.
Thanks
Mike

[Seventyseven]

Originally Posted by roann

All these decoding / encoding / fixing / testing / checksumming programs, for every file type and task another one, plus those annoying command line parameters ... So I wrote a Windows tool/frontend I called Trader's Little Helper. It was not written to be the perfect "all in one wonder" but to handle the most important tasks.

Development isn't finished yet (version 0.8.0), but there are a lot of things this tool already has to offer:

- verify & create checksum files (md5 signature, flac fp, md5 fp)
- test flac and ape files
- decode ape, flac, shn files
- list file details (looking for sector boundary errors)

Features to come in the next versions:
- encode wav files to ape, flac, shn
- fix sector boundary errors
- integration via context menu in windows explorer
- drag & drop functionality
- ???

It would be perfect if Trader's Little Helper could decode mkw files too. Unfortunately I didn't found any information about this file format, and the author of mkw/mkwACT can't be contacted (mkwACT homepage is down, email address doesn't work any more). So if you have any information about mkw, please contact me.

I've decided to make my prog public. You can download it here:

http://thor.prohosting.com/roh0205

Any feedback is appreciated! If there are some good icons out there (for the application itself or those md5, ffp, st5 checksum files) please let me know.

Robert

I just found this page and post...i want to say thank you for this awesome little program.

[ultraviolet74]

Originally Posted by roann

???

Come on, PLEASE update TLH!

[roann]

Originally Posted by ultraviolet74

Come on, PLEASE update TLH!

Well, this would take a long time...

About five years after the last release for me a new release would make sense only if installer skript, GUI, and many internal parts of TLH would be updated or rewritten. And a help file would be great.

For testing all the (pre-)alpha/beta/rc releases a lot of testers would be needed, because I don't have the time to test all this extensively with Windows releases from XP to 10 (32/64-bit). Plus I'd need some assistance writing the help file.

So, any volunteers?

[ultraviolet74]

Originally Posted by roann

Well, this would take a long time...

About five years after the last release for me a new release would make sense only if installer skript, GUI, and many internal parts of TLH would be updated or rewritten. And a help file would be great.

For testing all the (pre-)alpha/beta/rc releases a lot of testers would be needed, because I don't have the time to test all this extensively with Windows releases from XP to 10 (32/64-bit). Plus I'd need some assistance writing the help file.

So, any volunteers?

Is there a simply way to update only SHN, LAME and FLAC decoder that are a little bit old especially FLAC encoder?

I will be happy to help you test releases!