I wonder how to approach tracks containing more than one piece of music (for example last track on the album containing also "hidden" track at the very end) if I want them to be played separately (using the Playback Range functionality). Do I understand it correctly that the only way would be to duplicate that particular track (e.g. 2 physical files) where for one I would set the range for the regular song and for the second file I would set Range for the hidden track?? No way to avoid physical duplicates?
Thank you in advance for any ideas / comments.
You can use a cue sheet for creating virtual tracks with playback ranges.
For instance, the following cue file will split a five minute track to two 2.5 minute tracks without changing or duplicating the source audio file.
PERFORMER "the name of the artist"
TITLE "the name of the album"
FILE "this is the name of the file.ape" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "part1"
PERFORMER "the name of the artist"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "part 2"
PERFORMER "the name of the artist"
INDEX 01 02:30:00
A cue sheet is a simple text file with the .cue filename extension.
The INDEX line consists of:
- the index number which should always be 01 for this purpose
- minutes
- seconds
- fractions of a second in "the number of CD sectors" format. (The last two digits show the number of audio CD sectors and the possible values are from 00 to 74. One sector is 1/75 second.)
