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Splitting a Large FLAC file into songs, then converting to Apple Lossless

post #1 of 10
11/14/08 at 11:39am
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Hi, First off, I tried to find this answer through the search function, but had no luck. Sorry if it's buried somewhere, but I couldn't find it.

I'm trying to convert some of my music from FLAC to ALAC, but I've run into problems with some "full cd" type files which I had been splitting with cue files in foobar2000. Is there any way to split these files into individual songs without burning it to a cd first? Once I have it in a song-per-file format I'm fine to convert to ALAC, but I'm stuck on this at the moment.

Thanks in advance!
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post #2 of 10
11/14/08 at 12:37pm
I'm not sure I understand why you need to burn to a cd... Foobar2000 can split a file with the cue sheet just fine. You should be able to set up iTunes Encode to be an encoder in foobar and then you can do everything you want in one step.

You might also want to look at cue tools as an alternative for anythign you do dealing with cue sheets. It works really well.

CUETools 1.9.2 - Hydrogenaudio Forums
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post #3 of 10
11/14/08 at 12:39pm
Thread Starter 
Ah, sorry. I'll try to be more specific.

I had been using foobar to split the file and it was working fine. However, I'm trying to have itunes play some of the files and to the best of my knowledge iTunes does not utilize cue sheets.

So, my question is how to get an album which I have as a single file that I used to play with foobar to be recognized as discrete songs on iTunes.
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post #4 of 10
11/14/08 at 12:54pm
When you open the cue file with foobar2000 it should list the individual files in the playlist.
Then just right-click one at a time and click "Convert" (or similar).

I have done it in the past, but its been a while so I sadly don't remember the full details.
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post #5 of 10
11/14/08 at 12:57pm
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Originally Posted by krmathis View Post
When you open the cue file with foobar2000 it should list the individual files in the playlist.
Then just right-click one at a time and click "Convert" (or similar).
Pretty much. You don't need to select the files one at a time though. Just select all the tracks, right click, go to convert and choose the desired format.

Your not really 'splitting' the file if your just opening it in Foobar. When I say that I mean open it and then convert it to the desired format. Like I said, you should be able to set up iTunes encode as an encoder in Foobar as well so you have what is essentially a 1 step process.
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post #6 of 10
11/14/08 at 1:00pm
edit - someone answered the question better than me.
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post #7 of 10
11/14/08 at 2:00pm
Thread Starter 
Thank you all for your help, that worked out perfectly.
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post #8 of 10
11/14/08 at 3:33pm
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Originally Posted by krmathis View Post
When you open the cue file with foobar2000 it should list the individual files in the playlist.
Then just right-click one at a time and click "Convert" (or similar).
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Originally Posted by vulc4n View Post
Pretty much. You don't need to select the files one at a time though. Just select all the tracks, right click, go to convert and choose the desired format.
I'm a foobar2000 user big time, although just as a player--not a converter (I use dbpoweramp for conversions). Is foobar as effective--and accurate--for conversions, in your opinion?
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post #9 of 10
11/16/08 at 6:27pm
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Originally Posted by vulc4n View Post
Pretty much. You don't need to select the files one at a time though. Just select all the tracks, right click, go to convert and choose the desired format.
Even easier!
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post #10 of 10
11/16/08 at 6:44pm
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Originally Posted by Shoreman View Post
I'm a foobar2000 user big time, although just as a player--not a converter (I use dbpoweramp for conversions). Is foobar as effective--and accurate--for conversions, in your opinion?
I would say so, for mp3's it uses LAME.
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