[blessingx]

Could someone explain to me the advantages of using cue sheets/album files over gapless track files with lossless files? I see gapless file playback in more players than cue sheet support, so curious what the counter-balancing advantage(s) is/are?

 

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Originally Posted by blessingx /img/forum/go_quote.gif Could someone explain to me the advantages of using cue sheets/album files over gapless track files with lossless files? I see gapless file playback in more players than cue sheet support, so curious what the counter-balancing advantage(s) is/are?

The only thing is that a gap can be skipped with a cue sheet without having to detect a gap. I am comparing it to files with gaps right now though and since you already mentioned gapless files I think the only advantage of a cue sheet is that you can burn an exact copy on a CD again.

A disadvantage of a cue sheet is that it doesn't supports as many tags as individual files.

A bit more info on cue sheets
Cue sheet - Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase

There might be other advantages or disadvantages so please correct me if I'm wrong.