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Separating a FLAC CD image.

post #1 of 14
6/25/08 at 11:36pm
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Okay, so let's say I have the image of a CD in FLAC, along with its original cue sheet. How would I go about getting this into separate FLAC files.

I'm sure it's something to the effect of getting the wav from the FLAC and reencoding it using the cue sheet to individual FLAC files, but I don't know how to actually do that.

FLAC front end?
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post #2 of 14
6/25/08 at 11:44pm
I imagine your using a windows based system, but, in linux the following does the trick:

$cuebreakpoints sample.cue | shnsplit -o flac sample.flac

edit: FWIW, I'm pretty sure EAC can split wav files from a cue sheet.
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post #3 of 14
6/25/08 at 11:57pm
Open the cue sheet up in Foobar2000. Select the album in foobar, right click, convert, convert to, and convert it however you want (flac, mp3, wav, etc).
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post #4 of 14
6/25/08 at 11:57pm
Medieval CUE Splitter
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post #5 of 14
6/26/08 at 12:32am
Redo be right. Or the short answer:
Foobar!
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post #6 of 14
6/26/08 at 1:35am
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Originally Posted by cooperpwc View Post
Redo be right. Or the short answer:
Foobar!
Hmm, but that doesn't split just converts.
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post #7 of 14
6/26/08 at 11:05am
I have done that several time, using Max.
Just open the cue sheet with Max, then transcode the individual files to FLAC.

Can't be easier!
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post #8 of 14
6/26/08 at 4:24pm

Try Audacity 1.3.5

You can to do this semi-manually in Audacity. Open your FLAC image. Audacity automatically converts it to uncompressed AU stream. You can manually set split points then use the Export Multiple function to create multiple FLAC files at each split points from the AU stream.
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post #9 of 14
6/26/08 at 5:09pm
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Originally Posted by Andrew_WOT View Post
Hmm, but that doesn't split just converts.

Converting a cue sheet and one giant FLAC file into multiple FLAC files with all the gapless info and tags still intact works great for me. No data loss, no quality loss, and everything splits up nice and neat.
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post #10 of 14
6/26/08 at 7:28pm
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Originally Posted by Redo View Post
Converting a cue sheet and one giant FLAC file into multiple FLAC files with all the gapless info and tags still intact works great for me. No data loss, no quality loss, and everything splits up nice and neat.
Does it add pregap to the end or the beginning of the track?
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post #11 of 14
6/26/08 at 9:12pm
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Does it add pregap to the end or the beginning of the track?
Just did some tests and looks like foobar2000 adds pregap information to the beginning of the track. Not good.
EAC Gap Settings - Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase
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post #12 of 14
6/26/08 at 10:03pm
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Originally Posted by Andrew_WOT View Post
Just did some tests and looks like foobar2000 adds pregap information to the beginning of the track. Not good.
EAC Gap Settings - Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase

Well, I've never had any problems with altered gaps when using Foobar2000 to split up a cue sheet. It plays back exactly as it does when using the cue sheet.
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post #13 of 14
6/26/08 at 10:29pm
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Originally Posted by Redo View Post
Well, I've never had any problems with altered gaps when using Foobar2000 to split up a cue sheet. It plays back exactly as it does when using the cue sheet.
It adds gap to the beginning of the track, which means it starts with silence. Having silence at the end of the previous track is more natural and this is what EAC does by default when you rip individual songs. With silence at the beginning you won't notice anything wrong if listening the whole album gaplessly, only with individual tracks or shuffled ordering. Just read the link I posted, it has pretty good explanation of all that.

BTW, if using Medieval CUE Splitter, make sure to check "Invert Gaps" option to have them added to the end of the previous track.
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post #14 of 14
8/29/11 at 1:48am

Does CUE Tools have the same issue with silent gaps in the beginning/end of songs? I listen to a lot of albums where such gaps would be of a real detriment to my listening experience. For example, Tool's Lateralus or Opeth's Still Life. I am currently trying to work with some FLAC file/cue sheet as well as ape/cuesheet stuff. I just made this thread today: 

 

http://www.head-fi.org/t/569201/help-please-cue-files-ape-files-tagging-rockbox#post_7716059

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