Understanding Lossless codecs? Options

[excetara2]

I am just getting into lossless and just trying to understand exactly what cuesheets are for. From what I get, Cuesheets are just for when you want to rip back the image to a cd correct. They store all the information so the tags are right. In foobar it can autodetect via freedb the cd information and doesn't need the cuesheets. Can it do this if you do the whole image or just if you do it by track. What is the best way to do it just by track? Right now I know only how to copy an entire image over. Then foobar can sort an image out into separate songs. I would rather just have them separate tracks. Thanks and any help would be awesome.

[Synthetic Soul]

Cuesheets are most useful (required) if you rip to an image file, as the cuesheet not only stores the meta data/tags, but more importantly the track indexes.

If you are ripping to tracks most people do not bother with a cuesheet.

To rip to tracks just click the MP3 button on the left; that denotes compressed files according to your compression settings, not actually/solely MP3.

If you look at the EAC wiki page there are various links to ripping guides at the bottom. I believe they generally deal with ripping to tracks.