Because the OP is choosing "Create Image and cuesheet," he's going to get an external cuesheet, anyway.  Do you see any advantage in also having an embedded flac cuesheet, considering the limited functionality of the embedded version?
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Set EAC to use an external compressor.  Select FLAC as the encoder and add the text "--cuesheet=<path to CDImage>\CDImage.flac.cue" to the command line options.

Where <path to CDImage> is the path to where you will save the image.

To convert the CD select Action > Copy Image & Create CUE Sheet > Compressed...  from the menu, and leave the filename as "CDImage.flac" (or amend the command line options accordingly).

If you need a more detailed explanation please post back.

NB: I don't use flac, but I don't see why this won't work.

I wrote a guide to do something very similar using EAC with Monkey's Audio - it may be worth taking a look if you have no idea what I am on about, as it may introduce you to using an external compressor in EAC.

http://synthetic-soul.mysite.wanadoo-membe.../cd_backup.html

[span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%']Edit: added <path to CDImage> bit[/span]
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would you know of a way to change the final file's name via the script?

in other words, after the process is complete, we always have a file named <cdimage.ape>, therefore making it difficult to perform this process on a large collection in batch.  do you know how to have the file's name change automatically to <artist_album.ape> based on the tag?[{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

• I append the prosed backup DVD disc number to the EAC command line.  I then append this disc number, artist, album, date and time to a single CSV file, which is gradually building up a full list of all CDs I have archived, and what backup DVD they are stored on.  I am writing this CSV log to every DVD disc, but it will be most useful on the final disc, where it will be complete, and can tell me exactly where to find the album I'm after.
• I create an Artist\Album folder structure from the batch file, and once all processing has been done I move everything to this folder.  The reason I do it this way is that I can just tell EAC to write to the same folder each time ("E:\CDBackup"), without having to manually create the folder structure - let the script do the work!
• All information written to the console is also written to a log file, "eac-enc.log", so I have a record of what has happened

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Because the OP is choosing "Create Image and cuesheet," he's going to get an external cuesheet, anyway.  Do you see any advantage in also having an embedded flac cuesheet, considering the limited functionality of the embedded version?
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Perhaps someone could explain the cons of the FLAC embedded cuesheet.  I do remember reading that EAC cuesheets are not stored in full, but I can't remember why.  Does FLAC strip all PERFORMER/TITLE info?[a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=244559"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

Yup.  Nothing in there but track and index tags.  According to Josh, the embedded cue sheet is strictly for the purpose of re-creating the original CD.

By having an external cue sheet and using FB2K, you get artist, title, replay-gain and anything else you might like.[a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=244852"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

I'd love to get a copy of your batch files and the script to rename the image files. I'm working on similar scripts that work with flac files.[{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

:MakePath
SET tmpString=%~1
SET tmpString=%tmpString:/= %
SET tmpString=%tmpString:\= %
SET tmpString=%tmpString::= %
SET tmpString=%tmpString:?= %
SET tmpString=%tmpString:"= %
SET tmpString=%tmpString:^<= %
SET tmpString=%tmpString:^>= %
SET tmpString=%tmpString:^|= %
REM Now remove asterisks...
SET tmpString=%tmpString: =/%
SET tmpString=%tmpString:,=\%
SET output=
SET /A counter=-1
:MakePathNextChar
SET /A counter+=1
CALL :EXEC SET char=%%tmpString:~%counter%,1%%%
if NOT DEFINED char GOTO :MakePathDone
if [%char%] EQU [*] SET char=/
SET output=%output%%char%
GOTO :MakePathNextChar
:MakePathDone
SET output=%output:/= %
SET output=%output:\=,%
SET %2=%output%
GOTO:EOF
:EXEC
%*
GOTO:EOF

CALL :MakePath "<input text>" <output variable name>

CALL :MakePath %4 artistFolder
CALL :MakePath %5 albumFolder

CALL :MakePath %4 artistFilename
CALL :MakePath %5 albumFilename

REN "%~dp3%~n1.*" "%artistFilename%_%albumFilename%.*"

You can always embed the cuesheet in the CUESHEET tag in the FLAC file. The foobar flac component will read that as well and it will keep all the artist/track information.
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You can always embed the cuesheet in the CUESHEET tag in the FLAC file. The foobar flac component will read that as well and it will keep all the artist/track information.
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Perhaps the new flac works that way, but 1.1.0 doesn't.  You feed it a perfectly annotated cuesheet and it strips out everything that Josh thinks is extraneous.  It's not a bug, it's a feature.
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REM =====================================================
REM  PLEASE EDIT THE PATHS TO THE STORAGE FOLDERS 
REM =====================================================
SET apeFolder=E:\CDBackup\APE
SET csvLogFolder=E:\CDBackup\Log
SET eacEncLog=E:\CDBackup\eac-enc.log

Question for you, why is it a problem to rename files when using par2?[{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

PAR2 v CDImage.ape.par2

PAR2 v CDImage.ape.par2 Pixies_Doolittle.ape

PAR2 v Ctmp7!1!5.ape.par2 CDImage.ape

This is the reason my backup system uses two batch files: to get EAC to rename the file from the temporary name to the final name in between the two.  PAR2 then runs in the second (eac-post.bat) referencing the final filename.

You're right if you're talking about Josh's tools. I'm talking about Case's foobar2000 flac component. It will read the cuesheet from a tag named "CUESHEET". Try it.
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Pardon me if I wasn't paying attention earlier; how do you get the CUESHEET tag embedded in the first place?[{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

TAG.EXE -f "CUESHEET=E:\CDBackup\CDImage.flac.cue" "E:\CDBackup\CDImage.flac.flac"

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Pardon me if I wasn't paying attention earlier; how do you get the CUESHEET tag embedded in the first place?[{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

Either:
...
or:

Use [a href="http://synthetic-soul.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/tag.html]my version of Tag[/url], and do:

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TAG.EXE -f "CUESHEET=E:\CDBackup\CDImage.flac.cue" "E:\CDBackup\CDImage.flac.flac"

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Thanks, Synth.  I wish there was a way to get EAC to do it automatically.[{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

; =========================================================
;  FLAC
; =========================================================
EXT = flac
PATH = NONE
ENCODER = "C:\Program Files\Flac\FLAC.EXE"
PARAMETERS = -8 -o "@dest@" -V "@source@"

; =========================================================
;  TAG
; =========================================================
EXT = NONE
PATH = NONE
ENCODER = C:\DOS\TAG.EXE
PARAMETERS = --artist "@artist@" --album "@album@" -f "CUESHEET=@tmppathonly@\@finalnameonly@.cue" "@tmppathonly@\@tmpnameonly@.flac"

Actually, the position I'm in now is that I have a directory tree with individual flacs in it, and another directory tree with wav and cue files.  So I suppose I wish that Flac Frontend would do it, too.  Does Flac Frontend call tag.exe?[a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=245525"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]