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Hello.
First of all, I'm sorry if this was answered elsewhere on the site. I've looked around the forums a bit, tried searching, but couldn't find this specific question or an answer.
Second, the file is from a tape recording of a high school band that I had ripped. To my knowledge it's the only recording left in existence of this long-lost high-school band that released just the one tape. I don't know the band members, but I know someone who knows them and he's sure they'd like a copy of the music they made about 12 years ago. Good thing they weren't signed by the RIAA or I couldn't legally give them a copy of their own music today. :D
Ok now to the question. I have the tape ripped as a WAV file. To save space, I converted to an APE format. I include FLAC in my question for the archives. I manually listened and selected all the track start and stop positions. Several problems arise.
1) What is the CUE sheet syntax for a WAV, APE, and FLAC file to rip in Nero? I've got the requisite plugins.
2) Can the first track start after the zero position (i.e. 4 seconds)? I'd rather avoid editing the source, but if I need to, it's easy enough and lossless. It just takes more time.
3) How do I specify the track end position? Say a track starts at 00:00:04.123 (HH:MM:SS.sss) within the WAV file and ends at 00:03:45.678 and the next track starts at 00:03:56.789. Obviously I wouldn't want a big gap in the playback. If I can do it, then how do I tell Nero to start and stop at different spots, not just have start points as boundaries?
4) Should I just split the files? I ended up doing this manually and it is usually time and resource intensive.
5) Is there a tool which can detect relative silence based upon dB threshhold level at specific frequencies or ranges and generate a cue sheet by itself? Some of the tracks were originally mixed to fade in and fade out, so I don't want to chop the fade. I want complete and total control over what costitutes the definition of silence for the cue generator.
6) Is there a tool which can split based upon a cue sheet? This may even be the same program as above, which could generate a cue sheet and split on silence, generate a cue sheet, or split on cue sheet, each independently of the other.
7) Are these programs command line? God I hope so! I hate GUIs for this sort of task! So hard to automate...
8) Are there any plugins for such as mentioned above for programs as Nero or CoolEdit/Audition?
9) What about a cue sheet that I can use for Daemon-Tools and WinAMP for a WAV/APE/FLAC?
10) Here's a cue sheet I concocted... it seems to work in Daemon-Tools.
======== BEGIN CUE ========
PERFORMER "Artist"
TITLE "Artist Year"
FILE "Artist.Year.ape" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Song 1"
PERFORMER "Artist"
INDEX 00 00:04:24
INDEX 01 02:51:20
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Song 2"
PERFORMER "Artist"
INDEX 00 02:52:74
INDEX 01 04:57:60
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "Song 3"
PERFORMER "Artist"
INDEX 00 05:02:52
INDEX 01 08:05:21
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "Song 4"
PERFORMER "Artist"
INDEX 00 08:08:90
INDEX 01 11:00:70
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "Song 5"
PERFORMER "Artist"
INDEX 00 11:06:90
INDEX 01 14:33:35
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "Song 6"
PERFORMER "Artist"
INDEX 00 14:38:67
INDEX 01 20:04:10
======== END CUE ========
Thanks for the help!
edit note 0: added example cue sheet
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 29. November 2004 @ 06:22
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