I'm building media server that I plan to eventually hook up to a whole house audio system.
Along with my "popular" music, I've got a pretty large collection of classical CDs that I need to rip. Many of these CDs contain more than one work, often by different composers. I'd like to rip these CDs so that I have access to the separate tracks on the CD - which is straightforward.
However, when using shuffle playback or a smartlist to randomly pick music I'd like only entire works to be selected - makes no sense to pick the 4th movement of one piece and then play the 2nd movement of something else. But while playing, I also want to be able to see which track (movement) is current and also be able to skip back and forth in the piece between sequential tracks. I figured that couldn't be asking too much ...
After reading a few posts on FLAC files with Cue sheets I thought I might have a solution. For CDs with only one piece of music I might rip a single FLAC file + Cue sheet into a directory. For multiple piece CDs I'd rip one FLAC file + Cue sheet per peice - and I'd experiment with separate directories per piece or see if multiple FLAC + Cue sheets pairs could co-reside in a single directory. I was hoping the "integrity" of a single piece of music would be preserved by the FLAC file itself.
Well, after ripping simple one piece CDs into a single FLAC + Cue sheet, I'm finding that shuffle play happily treats each track in the Cue sheet as an independent "song" that can be picked standalone - not what I want at all. May as well have ripped each track as a seprate file.
Am I missing something obvious? Are there arcane work-arounds classical music folks are using to achieve what I want? Is classical music dead so nobody else even has these issues?
Any help much appreciated.