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How do you all handle FLAC/CUE releases? A problem I have is that I want to have processed/tagged tracks, but I also want to keep FLAC/CUEs. I end up have redun

by timcobb 11mo ago

How do you all handle FLAC/CUE releases? A problem I have is that I want to have processed/tagged tracks, but I also want to keep FLAC/CUEs. I end up have redundant and separate organized library and original data.

parineum 11mo ago
I, personally, split the flac. It sounds like you don't want to do that but though but it does remain lossless amd I prefer to see the tracks representing individually in the filesystem.
intrikate 11mo ago
I just split everything into tracks like they are on the album. Is there a tangible benefit to a single large FLAC with a CUE to tell the player where the songs are?
- timcobb 11mo ago
  There are a few benefits in my opinion, mainly: - The CUE maps the audio in a "CD-native" way, like each track can have 1 or more indices, which enables things like pregaps. When you split FLACs into discrete tracks you need to figure out how to project that onto files, do you put the pregaps at the end of previous tracks? At the beginning of next tracks? In short, with a CUE you can emulate the CD experience more accurately. - If you are seeding a torrent, you need to keep the original data intact.
  - terinjokes 11mo ago
    I've been thinking about this recently too, mostly to figure out how to preserve indexes in tracks of "Murmurs of Earth"[0]. I think the FLAC embedded cuesheets could be used for this. While intended for CD-ready cuesheets embedded into one big FLAC, there's no reason they couldn't be used in individual files, with index 00 for pregaps. I'm not sure it's well supported anywhere however. Maybe foobar2000? Edit: I pulled up the RFC[1] for FLAC, and it seems like this is a use case they had in mind for the embedded cuesheet: > A cuesheet metadata block can be used either [...] or to provide a mechanism to store locations of interest within a FLAC file. [0]: https://www.discogs.com/release/6057232 https://www.discogs.com/release/6057232 [1]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9639.html#name-cuesheet https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9639.html#name-cuesheet
    - timcobb 11mo ago
      Not sure, I could never get my mind around foobar2000. I've just been playing my single-file CUE/(FLAC|APE)s in VLC ;-(

by timcobb 11mo ago

parineum 11mo ago

I, personally, split the flac. It sounds like you don't want to do that but though but it does remain lossless amd I prefer to see the tracks representing individually in the filesystem.

intrikate 11mo ago

I just split everything into tracks like they are on the album. Is there a tangible benefit to a single large FLAC with a CUE to tell the player where the songs are?

timcobb 11mo ago
There are a few benefits in my opinion, mainly: - The CUE maps the audio in a "CD-native" way, like each track can have 1 or more indices, which enables things like pregaps. When you split FLACs into discrete tracks you need to figure out how to project that onto files, do you put the pregaps at the end of previous tracks? At the beginning of next tracks? In short, with a CUE you can emulate the CD experience more accurately. - If you are seeding a torrent, you need to keep the original data intact.
- terinjokes 11mo ago
  I've been thinking about this recently too, mostly to figure out how to preserve indexes in tracks of "Murmurs of Earth"[0]. I think the FLAC embedded cuesheets could be used for this. While intended for CD-ready cuesheets embedded into one big FLAC, there's no reason they couldn't be used in individual files, with index 00 for pregaps. I'm not sure it's well supported anywhere however. Maybe foobar2000? Edit: I pulled up the RFC[1] for FLAC, and it seems like this is a use case they had in mind for the embedded cuesheet: > A cuesheet metadata block can be used either [...] or to provide a mechanism to store locations of interest within a FLAC file. [0]: https://www.discogs.com/release/6057232 https://www.discogs.com/release/6057232 [1]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9639.html#name-cuesheet https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9639.html#name-cuesheet
  - timcobb 11mo ago
    Not sure, I could never get my mind around foobar2000. I've just been playing my single-file CUE/(FLAC|APE)s in VLC ;-(