it's useful to preserve things like hidden tracks, pre-gap content, inter-track timing (including when that gap is specifically structured to offer chapter stops in a continuous recording e.g. of a concert or live recording) - edge cases, mostly.
It's worth knowing that you can embed the .cue file directly inside the FLAC file though instead of having to keep them side by side. Worth testing with your players of choice though, support can be finicky. Worth figuring out though.
@gnomon Oooo, can you elaborate? I've copy and pasted cue files into the comments tag of FLACs, but that was just to avoid archiving separate files. Is there any software that can actually do something with that, or some sort of specification for it?
One is for a VorbisTag type 2 metadata block (`metaflac --import-cuesheet-from=file.cue file.flac`), the other is for applying track tags from that CUE sheet (`metaflac --import-cuesheet-from=file.cue --set-tag-from-file=CUESHEET=file.cue file.flac`).
On Windows, foobar2000 handles files structured this way; in my case, mpd does too. I don't know of many others though.
Inter-track perfection — gapless, noises in gaps, there's a handful of things separate files can't represent. But in general no, at least not on modern albums which are designed as separate tracks, not a single continuous recording.
@aredridel Oh, interesting, thanks. I think I need to re-test whether the players I use support them; I haven't had a good experience with such files yet, and mostly started splitting everything out of custom.
Yeah, I think with rare exception, separate files is easy and fine. But there's subtleties that audio tapes and CDs can have, so it's not _exactly_ right.
@aredridel I have never written a music player, so I really don't know what I'm talking about, but it sounds like a player could very well string together two adjacent songs to avoid gaps in the audio?
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in reply to Federico Mena Quintero • • •I would say no, but I made an exception for this album (8h24m21s):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_(a…
album by Max Richter
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Ben Zanin
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero • • •it's useful to preserve things like hidden tracks, pre-gap content, inter-track timing (including when that gap is specifically structured to offer chapter stops in a continuous recording e.g. of a concert or live recording) - edge cases, mostly.
It's worth knowing that you can embed the .cue file directly inside the FLAC file though instead of having to keep them side by side. Worth testing with your players of choice though, support can be finicky. Worth figuring out though.
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in reply to Ben Zanin • • •Ben Zanin
in reply to EVERYTHING'S COMPUTER • • •@be you're going to hate this:
There are two specifications.
One is for a VorbisTag type 2 metadata block (`metaflac --import-cuesheet-from=file.cue file.flac`), the other is for applying track tags from that CUE sheet (`metaflac --import-cuesheet-from=file.cue --set-tag-from-file=CUESHEET=file.cue file.flac`).
On Windows, foobar2000 handles files structured this way; in my case, mpd does too. I don't know of many others though.
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in reply to Ben Zanin • •Also adding a gapless playback support into a modern slick audio player doesn't look like a trivial task: gitlab.gnome.org/World/amberol…
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