I am trying to break down some MPC using the supplied CUE Options

[Marc]

but when I split the files there is a terrible noise at the beginning of each track/or several seconds of silence before the music starts. On some there is also a lot up to 7 seconds of silence at the end of some tracks. The MPC plays fine before it's split . Any suggestions?

Marc

[Antonski]

I would also like to cut an mpc image of a cd into separate tracks. I tried converting it to SV8 and the resulting file is 2mb smaller (106mb SV8 vs 108mb SV7). Is that normal? Seems like a relatively large reduction in size for a simple lossless conversion between the 2 variants.

The new entropy coding of the stream gives about 2% smaller files and faster decoding.

... is there a winamp plugin for the sv8?

Yes, if you don't want to compile by yourself, you can find one in that package.

Also is there an automated way to cut the resulting mpc SV8 image using a cue file? Manually using the mpccut and entering start/end samples for each track would be quite the proverbial pita.

Well, I might think about some simple tool. I have to prepare an mpc image + cue file first. And to find some free time

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