That sounds a lot like a playlist.
Hmmm, I never was good at explaining myself. Ask previous girlfriends
Suppose I have these files:
cd.ape
cd.cue
selection1.apl
selection2.apl
cover.jpg
And suppose I used WinRAR to compress them.
Now I have cd.rar
Inside cd.rar I have all the files needed to play the selections or the entire cd.
The individual files do not exist on my system after I compress them, they are deleted because there is no reason to keep them.
Now, why do I want to do this? I want to have the protection that rar gives to its archives. I understand that a compressed audio file, like ape, is not going to become smaller. But inside a rar it will be safer.
"Recovery record and recovery volumes allow to reconstruct even physically damaged archives. " That's from the WinRAR website. And I have used that ability to recover damaged archives in the past.
Doesn't have to be ape files I archive, mp3, wav, whatever.
Grab the latest foobar and WinRAR.
Archive a few audio files.
Delete the original files if you want.
Drop the rar file onto foobar.
Play the selections.
Pretty cool feature, and actually useful for the ability to protect the files inside a rar wrapper.