Gapless playback with a Linux DLNA server, was: "software to create cue files" Options

[Richard Kimber]

Virtually all the music I buy now comes in the form of downloaded flac files. These have no cue sheets with them.

Some of the music needs to be played gaplessly, and I'm under the impression that flac files + cue sheets is a solution to this. If this is so, can anyone recommend a linux program that would enable me to generate cue sheets from the flac files on my hard disk? I have seen software that creates cue files from music on a CD, but I can't find anything that does it from a folder of flac files on the hard disk.

[greynol]

It's a shame that you seem to be held up by things you cannot hear, unless you are able to demonstrate that you can.

This post has been edited by greynol: Apr 13 2012, 18:41

[Richard Kimber]

It's a shame that you seem to be held up by things you cannot hear, unless you are able to demonstrate that you can.

I'm not sure I understand this. I can detect a quality difference between the 16bit/44100 and 24bit/96000 files that I have. It's because I want to find out whether 192k makes any difference that I'm looking for an appropriate way to play the files. Having Airplay downgrade them to 16bit doesn't seems to me like a good way of doing this.

[Richard Kimber]

It's a shame that you seem to be held up by things you cannot hear, unless you are able to demonstrate that you can.

Actually, I support the aims of the document mentioned, in principle, though in the home environment it's hard to meet the requirements fully. I also think that the reproducibility requirement is formulated too strictly.
"If someone passes the test, others must check if this is possible, by passing the test in their turn." seems to imply that anyone must be able to pass the test, whereas I would only require people who have the same or better hearing abilities to pass the test. Also, some of the links in the FAQ need to be looked at. Linabx doesn't seem to be available, and the links to:
WinABX
FF123's samples For Testing Audio Codecs
ABC/Hidden Reference Audio Comparison Tool
Roberto's public listening tests page
are broken. I haven't checked all of them - maybe it's worth running the page through a linkchecker. I could do that if you wanted.

This post has been edited by Richard Kimber: Apr 14 2012, 14:08