Trader's Little Helper

I have to say thanks to you for this program roann, your continuing efforts to help the traders are simply awesome. Thanks for your selflessness!

[tragedy32]

Thank you so much for developing Traders Little Helper. Two years after your initial post, please know that your program is greatly appreciated by many.

[theriac]

So, I already have the FLAC codec as well as the APE DLL installed on my system. Perhaps a standalone version for those with the codecs already installed would be a good idea? I would really love that and this does seem like an awesome program.

[roann]

Originally Posted by theriac

So, I already have the FLAC codec as well as the APE DLL installed on my system. Perhaps a standalone version for those with the codecs already installed would be a good idea? I would really love that and this does seem like an awesome program.

Are there any problems with the already installed codecs? The TLH setup only installs subcomponents _not_ found in your Windows directory. And TLH does _not_ need/use the APE DLL.

Robert

[bakker_be]

Just a quick question before sc***ing up: does TLH work on Vista?
Thanks a lot!
Bart

[theriac]

Originally Posted by roann

Are there any problems with the already installed codecs? The TLH setup only installs subcomponents _not_ found in your Windows directory. And TLH does _not_ need/use the APE DLL.

Robert

There are no problems with the codecs that are already installed, but I believe the ones included with TLH are out-of-date with the exception of the shorten and aucdtect commandlines. That is, shntool is on v3.x.x, FLAC is on v1.1.4, and MAC is on v4.xx BETA. Is there a plan to update these or are these what is to be considered the "safest"/"recommended" versions?

I do not place my codecs in the Windows directory either. I put them in C:\Program Files\codecs\. I did not know that TLH doesn't need the APE DLL though, thanks!

[markshan]

I started using this on the suggestion of someone on Internet Archive before I ever discovered torrents. This is a great program. Thank you so much!

[roann]

Originally Posted by bakker_be

Just a quick question before sc***ing up: does TLH work on Vista?
Thanks a lot!
Bart

Unfortunately I can't test TLH on Vista because I don't have it. But up to now I didn't get any emails reporting problems using TLH on Vista.

Originally Posted by theriac

There are no problems with the codecs that are already installed, but I believe the ones included with TLH are out-of-date with the exception of the shorten and aucdtect commandlines. That is, shntool is on v3.x.x, FLAC is on v1.1.4, and MAC is on v4.xx BETA. Is there a plan to update these or are these what is to be considered the "safest"/"recommended" versions? ...

Do not use the new versions of these command line applications! Shntool was changed in a way that definitely will cause TLH to malfunction or crash. I am working on a new release that will do the job with the new ones (except mac.exe because shntool doesn't work with v4.xx beta) but this will take some months. So it is highly recommended to use the files that come with the installer of Trader's Little Helper.

Robert

[theriac]

Alright. Thanks a lot; I was simply wondering about this as I wasn't sure.

[Dweller_Benthos]

Just installing a new comp, and I was wondering - any plans to include SFV file support? I get SFV verification files from time to time and integration into TLH would be cool. Don't know how much hassle that would be, but I thought I'd toss it out there for consideration.

Thanks again for a great program!

D_B

[Electrif]

Have been through all this forum and am not sure if the error I'm getting has been covered. I appologise if it has. It's regarding a ffp verification error.
I'm using the latest TLH 1.1.1 (build 90), running on XP SP2.

The following was extracted from TLH:

01-Track01.wav: successfully encoded to '01-Track01.flac'
02-Track02.wav: successfully encoded to '02-Track02.flac'
03-Track03.wav: successfully encoded to '03-Track03.flac'
04-Track04.wav: successfully encoded to '04-Track04.flac'

No errors occured.

01-Track01.flac: tested ok (file will decode properly)
02-Track02.flac: tested ok (file will decode properly)
03-Track03.flac: tested ok (file will decode properly)
04-Track04.flac: tested ok (file will decode properly)

No errors occured.

01-Track01.flac:60dfc22e2233f7ed046de44d01869320
02-Track02.flac:ee134f9cf2dae4e6247f3a862f185884
03-Track03.flac:160820850bda0f8393dd362edcf18d20
04-Track04.flac:0eae43ea19a95a6a302614ab5aeacb28

No errors occured.

Checksum file saved to disk.

**************************************************
Full Verify

File 'C:\Desktop\Unknown Artist\Unknown Title\Unknown Title.ffp'

Line 001: skipped (comment).
Line 002: skipped (comment).
Line 003: skipped (empty line).
Line 004: file '01-Track01.flac' failed verification (read error (file may be unsupported, truncated or otherwise corrupt)).
Line 005: file '02-Track02.flac' failed verification (read error (file may be unsupported, truncated or otherwise corrupt)).
Line 006: file '03-Track03.flac' failed verification (read error (file may be unsupported, truncated or otherwise corrupt)).
Line 007: file '04-Track04.flac' failed verification (read error (file may be unsupported, truncated or otherwise corrupt)).

There were errors.

***************************************************

Verify against fingerprint in flac file header ony

File 'C:\Desktop\Unknown Artist\Unknown Title\Unknown Title.ffp'

Line 001: skipped (comment).
Line 002: skipped (comment).
Line 003: skipped (empty line).
Line 004: file '01-Track01.flac' verified ok (checksum does match).
Line 005: file '02-Track02.flac' verified ok (checksum does match).
Line 006: file '03-Track03.flac' verified ok (checksum does match).
Line 007: file '04-Track04.flac' verified ok (checksum does match).

No errors occured.

This is even happening with flac folders I've downloaded here. I'm sure the files are OK, as they test OK.

Thanks

[Cirre]

This looks great, when will the version to fix sector boundary errors be ready for download?? That would be great!!!

[Cirre]

oh sorry, the message i read was from 2005...I got it!!! Thanks

[mobile]

Just had a HDD crash, now i can just download this one program instead of all those others, thanks

[zeus163]

Originally Posted by roann

You'll get this error message if one of the following files cannot be found in your Windows directory (usually C:\WINDOWS): auCDtect.exe, cygwin1.dll, flac.exe, mac.exe, metaflac.exe, shntool.exe, shorten.exe

Hmmm...I had to re-install windows XP on my laptop and now I'm getting the above error except I have all the files listed above in the windows directory. I'm on vacation or I'd check my other computer to see if anything else is missing. Any suggestions?

I'd love to be able to have this awesome program working on my laptop...