Sonic Atrocity
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So I have acquired some lossless music and am having a bit of trouble managing it. First being that it came in the Monkey's audio format (APE.), second being that it came with a CUE. file (which I am not familiar with at all yet) and third being that when I load it onto my Rockboxed Clip+ it is untagged.
I have tried to convert the files to FLAC with xrecode II but then they don't play on my computer. But they play on Clip+ but of course remain untagged.
I read about medieval cue splitter but I have concerns. On this page: http://www.medieval.it/cuesplitter-pc/menu-id-71.html it says "
Mind the "?HELP" to the side, I didn't mean for it to be there. I am concerned about this jitter and want nothing to do with it!
Also, on wikipedia I read that Monkey's audio "main drawbacks are the fact that it employs a symmetric algorithm, meaning the decoding takes comparable resources to encoding, which makes it unsuitable for all but the fastest portable players (via Rockbox firmware),[6] and that it has limited support on software platforms other than Windows; on other platforms only decoding is officially supported by third-party programs."
Ultimately, I want to convert these files to FLAC, have them tagged properly, not have them in one big file encompassing a whole album (but instead tracklisted in separate files (I believe that the CUE file has something to do with this)), and have no jitter or any other problems that could interfere with my listening experience.
I am not meaning to pass the job of thinking onto my fellow head-fiers. I spent a good part of last night reading about this stuff and became very frustrated. Could someone please provide me with some advice/tips/instructions/information as to how I can achieve what I want? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading and uber-happy listening!
I have tried to convert the files to FLAC with xrecode II but then they don't play on my computer. But they play on Clip+ but of course remain untagged.
I read about medieval cue splitter but I have concerns. On this page: http://www.medieval.it/cuesplitter-pc/menu-id-71.html it says "
| [size=11pt]Known bug: MPC engine can cause a bit of jitter at the beginning/end of tracks.[/size] | [size=20pt]Help![/size] | |
| [size=11pt]Limitations: MD5 checksum is not calculated for generated FLAC files.[/size] |
Mind the "?HELP" to the side, I didn't mean for it to be there. I am concerned about this jitter and want nothing to do with it!
Ultimately, I want to convert these files to FLAC, have them tagged properly, not have them in one big file encompassing a whole album (but instead tracklisted in separate files (I believe that the CUE file has something to do with this)), and have no jitter or any other problems that could interfere with my listening experience.
I am not meaning to pass the job of thinking onto my fellow head-fiers. I spent a good part of last night reading about this stuff and became very frustrated. Could someone please provide me with some advice/tips/instructions/information as to how I can achieve what I want? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading and uber-happy listening!