Comments on microUgly's Vanity Site: EAC, FLAC and embedded Cuesheets

This is such an amazingly simple solution for auto...

2011-04-09T22:45:30.913+10:00

This is such an amazingly simple solution for automatic embedding of the cue sheet. I can't believe it's taken me this long to find someone who's found such a solution. Originally, I thought it wasn't possible from within EAC, so I used my own custom batch script. Now I don't even have to add the track titles as those are already found within the cue sheet. One thing, though: is it possible to have the cue sheet automatically deleted? I have no immediate use for it after my FLAC's been encoded--and if I want it later, of course, I can simply extract it.

Thanks for the tip Dec. I did actually end up com...

2011-01-09T09:04:33.899+10:00

Thanks for the tip Dec. I did actually end up compressing all mine at 8 for the reason you suggested, a small saving per album can add up to a lot across an entire collection.

On reasonably modern computers, there is no reason...

2010-12-15T11:14:32.208+10:00

On reasonably modern computers, there is no reason not to go for the maximum compression, using -8 instead of -5.
Each FLAC run will take a bit longer and require more memory, but the resulting FLAC files will be smaller.
This might make a small difference to each individual album, but over a full collection it could make the difference between needing to buy a new external HDD or not (or an extra box of DDS tapes or BD-ROM discs or whatever your backup medium is).
The FLAC codec needs very little processor power to decode, so the compression ratio makes very little difference at playback, unless your playback device is seriously underpowered.
Also, please make sure you have the latest FLAC version. Some GUI front-ends are still shipping with older versions of libflac or FLAC.exe years later.

In meantime I detected that foobar can embed the c...

2010-02-24T06:03:28.646+10:00

In meantime I detected that foobar can embed the cuesheet in the flac by Utilites/edit cuesheet and then check "enable embed couesheet".
Only missing how embed album picture

thanks!
Fabrizio

I only know of using the command line tool, metafl...

2010-02-23T08:28:19.318+10:00

I only know of using the command line tool, metaflac, which comes with the flac encoder. I believe there are some GUI wrappers for it though. Check the Flac website.

hello do you know any easy way to embedd the cuesh...

2010-02-23T05:47:57.237+10:00

hello
do you know any easy way to embedd the cuesheet in existing Flac file? I've foobar, but it create separate file only..
thanks
Fabrizio

Yeah, I wouldn't expect a lot of support for F...

2009-09-15T11:56:17.043+10:00

Yeah, I wouldn't expect a lot of support for Flac and cuesheets. But my idea was to use Foobar to convert the flac quickly and easily to any other format for any device, all pre-populated with the correct tag information.

There's a command-line tool that comes with the Flac encoder called metaflac which can import a cuesheet into an already existing Flac file. I believe the parameters are the same.

Thanks for the tip, your method works, however my ...

2009-09-15T10:32:17.207+10:00

Thanks for the tip, your method works, however my Squeezebox does not seem to recognise it. Foobar2000 on the other hand does.

It's definitely a nice handy way to save the cue sheet securely, and I am definitely going to use it.

BTW how about if you already have a flac file, how do you embeded the cue sheet?

With this method the cuesheet is automatically cre...

2009-09-08T15:59:11.500+10:00

With this method the cuesheet is automatically created if you go to Action > Copy Image & Create CUE sheet > Compressed. There isn't a keyboard shortcut, unfortunately.

With this process do you have to make the cuesheet...

2009-09-08T13:47:37.196+10:00

With this process do you have to make the cuesheet before ripping? If the cue sheet must be generated manually before which option do you use Alt+S, Alt+M, or Alt+O?

Thanks!

Very useful! Thank you man

2009-08-28T07:09:28.522+10:00

Very useful! Thank you man