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Title: How do I permanently split .flac files with .cue files into individual tracks?
Post by: JustinChase on January 23, 2016, 11:53:04 am: I tried rename, move, copy on the individual tracks listed in MC, but that didn't work.

I remember I've done this in the past, but can't remember how I did it, or if the functionality changed since then.

I appreciate any help with this, thanks.
Title: Re: How do I permanently split .flac files with .cue files into individual tracks?
Post by: ~OHM~ on January 23, 2016, 12:19:08 pm: this is what i use

http://www.medieval.it/cuesplitter-pc/menu-id-71.html
Title: Re: How do I permanently split .flac files with .cue files into individual tracks?
Post by: ferday on January 23, 2016, 12:50:06 pm: I recommend cuetools, open source and does a bunch of other stuff as well
Title: Re:
Post by: Al ex on January 24, 2016, 04:25:48 pm: Simply convert the flac files as flac within jriver, no extra tools needed.
Title: Re:
Post by: ~OHM~ on January 24, 2016, 05:18:30 pm: Quote from: Al ex on January 24, 2016, 04:25:48 pm
Simply convert the flac files as flac within jriver, no extra tools needed.

and that splits the files?
Title: Re: How do I permanently split .flac files with .cue files into individual tracks?
Post by: JustinChase on January 24, 2016, 09:31:25 pm: Thanks everyone. I did discover that if I select the individual split files (as MC displays them, not the full, uncut single flac file) and chose convert files on those, I can select the format to convert to (flac in this case) and MC will convert them into actual individual files.

Somewhat annoyingly, it doesn't use my normal naming convention for the new files, but they do retain the tags from the originals, so it's easy enough to rename, move, copy them to the correct structure and location.

I did have a couple of instances where the process froze MC solid and I had to kill it and reconvert the files, but it generally works okay.
Title: Re: How do I permanently split .flac files with .cue files into individual tracks?
Post by: ferday on January 24, 2016, 09:57:47 pm: Cool, learned something new!
Title: Re: How do I permanently split .flac files with .cue files into individual tracks?
Post by: ~OHM~ on January 24, 2016, 11:14:32 pm: Quote from: ferday on January 24, 2016, 09:57:47 pm
Cool, learned something new!

ditto
Title: Re: How do I permanently split .flac files with .cue files into individual tracks?
Post by: rudyrednose on January 25, 2016, 01:16:46 pm: +1, this will be handy.
Title: Re: How do I permanently split .flac files with .cue files into individual tracks?
Post by: Awesome Donkey on January 25, 2016, 01:28:23 pm: Quote from: TAO1857 on January 23, 2016, 12:19:08 pm
this is what i use

http://www.medieval.it/cuesplitter-pc/menu-id-71.html

I wouldn't recommend Medieval CUE Splitter as it's known to introduce sector boundary errors (SBE's) when splitting. CUETools would be the recommended solution for an external program outside of MC.
Title: Re: How do I permanently split .flac files with .cue files into individual tracks?
Post by: Vocalpoint on January 25, 2016, 02:42:55 pm: I use EZ CD Audio Converter (Poikosoft) for this type of work.

Offers complete control over the conversion, naming conventions and most importantly - where to place the converted files.

Not to mention all the other excellent tools it brings to the table. Great value for 40 bucks.

VP
Title: Re: Re:
Post by: Al ex on January 25, 2016, 04:19:19 pm: Quote from: TAO1857 on January 24, 2016, 05:18:30 pm
and that splits the files?
Exactly
Title: Re: How do I permanently split .flac files with .cue files into individual tracks?
Post by: mark_h on January 26, 2016, 04:02:54 am: I use convert all the time to do this, and it's a very neat trick, but quite often the convert of some tracks fails... Which can be a bit of a pain to sort out...

I have no idea why - the logs never seem to show anything, and I've yet to bring it up with the devs as I'm still looking for some way to recreate or narrow down the problem so they have something more solid to look at...

If the convert fails, normally the original file is already deleted and you will need to recover that and run the convert again on the failed tracks. This then usually works.
Title: Re: Re: How do I permanently split .flac files with .cue files into individual tracks?
Post by: JustinChase on January 26, 2016, 11:49:58 am: Quote from: mark_h on January 26, 2016, 04:02:54 am
I use convert all the time to do this, and it's a very neat trick, but quite often the convert of some tracks fails... Which can be a bit of a pain to sort out...

I have no idea why - the logs never seem to show anything, and I've yet to bring it up with the devs as I'm still looking for some way to recreate or narrow down the problem so they have something more solid to look at...

If the convert fails, normally the original file is already deleted and you will need to recover that and run the convert again on the failed tracks. This then usually works.
I set it to add the converted files to the library, specifically to avoid the need to recover failed conversions, then I delete the original manually once I know the converted files are all okay. Not as fluid add one would like, but such is life. :D
Title: Re: How do I permanently split .flac files with .cue files into individual tracks?
Post by: MikeO on January 27, 2016, 06:24:03 am: Hi

I think medieval cue splitter admits it occasionally adds blips, I use CUE tools,

Mike
Title: Re: How do I permanently split .flac files with .cue files into individual tracks?
Post by: jacobair on January 10, 2018, 10:46:54 am: thx, this works great with Mediacenter onboard tools
as described by Justin, good added value!
Title: Re: How do I permanently split .flac files with .cue files into individual tracks?
Post by: FenceFurniture on August 22, 2019, 01:26:27 am: I have been doing some track splitting today, but getting quite varied results. I have about a dozen albums that have all the tracks rolled into one, for reasons I do not know about (I didn't rip them). They are not SACD or HD - just regular sized 16 bit 44.1Hz flacs.

The first thing to note is that BEFORE I even knew that track splitting could be done (i.e. 10 days ago), there was one album that was one single track but when I Imported it to the library it automatically came in as 10 split tracks (each 383Mb, which is the size of the whole one-track). Looking at the Metadata in the file (via Windows) it has a Comment: ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb5 so presumably it was ripped via EAC.

It also has a tag "cuesheet", with the following info:
REM GENRE Rock;
REM DATE 2015;
REM DISCID 040D0F11;
REM COMMENT ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb5;
PERFORMER "edited";
TITLE "edited";
FILE "edited.wav" WAVE; (but it's actually a flac file)
TRACK 01 AUDIO;
TITLE "edited";
PERFORMER "edited";
INDEX 01 00:00:00;

etc etc

TRACK 17 AUDIO;
TITLE "edited";
PERFORMER "edited";
INDEX 01 61:23:35;

So I'm assuming that it has followed this cue sheet when it was imported to JRiver.
I'm wondering if I can create my own cuesheet tag (again via Windows) for the other files, as long as I research the track lengths and check the silences against the file by playing it. It sure would beat the hell out of creating all the different particles, mainly because of the what has been happening (description follows).

I have now converted these 10 phantom files to "proper" files, quite easily as instructed above. The benefit to me is that they can now be exported to my DAP which of course does not use JRiver.

EDIT: I'll make these separate posts for ease of reading.
Title: Re: How do I permanently split .flac files with .cue files into individual tracks?
Post by: FenceFurniture on August 22, 2019, 02:40:16 am: Crikey! I've well and truly surprised myself! I can add a tag for cuesheet, and then copy the contents of another one and modify it with the correct track names and start times, import it to JRiver....AND IT WORKS! ;D