First things first, install FLAC. You downloaded it earlier right? Get to it!
That's the license. It's boring, but you dig. Cool? Cool.
Check everything, but you can un-check whatever you don't want. The FLAC plugin for winamp2, is very handy. The Nero plugin is also handy, but don't bother with it if you don't have Nero obviously. Everything else, is good to have, especially the frontend. I'm not even sure you can disable installing it. Move on.
Zing. That's it.. Don't bother with the Readme, it's boring anyway. But you're done installing FLAC. Hooray!
Run the FLAC Frontend. It should have put some icons for it somewhere.
Now, go to the folder where your .WAV files you just finished extracting and checking are. Drag the .WAV files into the Flac Frontend window.
Like such. Level 5 for compression is fine. A bigger number takes more time, with minimal results. A smaller number takes less time, with increasingly larger files. It doesn't take too long as it is on 5, so use 5. Don't delete the input files if you'd like to keep the .WAV's around. Delete them if you don't want them, it doesn't matter. Don't use Ogg-FLAC, because that's like making mp3's We're not doing that. If you want to Verify, Add Tags, do it. Don't "replaygain", because that's just as bad as Normalize in EAC, and someone needs to cut off your keyboard privliges if you do that. Align on sector boundaries is handy, but you already did that with EAC. And cuesheet is a little pointless for this sort of thing I think as well. When you're ready, click Encode and you'll get this:
Thank goodness for the frontend, or you'd have to type those options out yourself, and that's no fun. Eventually it'll be done (takes a few minutes, longer the slower your processor, it'll be obvious when it's done) and then when back in the frontend click "Clear". Now, drag the .flac files into the frontend, and click "Fingerprint". It'll ask you to save a file, and save it like you would have the other files with .ffp.txt as the ending. (ie: tori1999-10-07d1.ffp.txt). This is a fingerprint file, and it'll allow people to verify if they have the whole show if they download it. It's very handy.
Now, fill out a .txt file about the show. Name the txt file like everything else (ie: tori1999-10-07.txt) and include the following:
examples of well-made proper text files are on the currently circulating page, A specific example of a good .txt file is at
http://www.toritraders.com/circ/2003/tori2003-03-06.spcmc2.txt
You can be as descriptive as you like, more is best. Don't skimp on the details, I promise someone will care. That one even goes as far to say where the taper was sitting, which some people find useful.
And now, you're done! You're ready to give the show to anyone in the world. If you'd like to share a show via BitTorrent, contact dmaster or tylendel, or make a post in the forums and we'll get things going. Otherwise, the show is ready to be traded via FTP, Usenet, or any other way of uploading and downloading that you can think of. Some people even like to get shows in FLAC format on CD to save space and prevent hassles, so it's good for archiving things too. (you'd hate for one of your shows to get scratched and have to trade for a new copy, right?).
I hope this was helpful, and you feel like an expert now! Questions/Comments/Suggestions/Complaints, please email me.