Splitting FLAC 192 khz 24 bit by CUE sheet (and foobar question) Options

[Taishou]

Hi!

Is there ANY program to just split a big FLAC file by CUE sheet into smaller FLACs? Note that my FLACs are 192 khz, 24 bits and no program seems able to handle that. Let me expand...

I use EAC for my CDs and, aside the pain of unicode with non-latin characters sheets and working only with wav, it works just fine. But it doesn't work with 192 khz files. I looked into CUE Tools, but the same. I finally found foobar can split files. The bad thing is it seems to re-encode (or trascode) everything it converts. When I input the big FLAC file to split it asks me the FLAC encoder. Is it actually re-encoding the FLAC? Or it just needs the encoder (FLAC.exe) to split? I know, ultimately it's all the same as FLAC is lossless. It doesn't matter, except the processing power/time to re-encode maybe? Just splitting (like I did with EAC) seems more "efficient".

But what about gaps? It doesn't have any option to append gaps or leave them out like EAC has. I want the normal "with gaps" option from EAC. Is that the default for foobar? Or what does it do with gaps?


Thanks.

This post has been edited by Taishou: Aug 27 2012, 01:56

[suburbanknight]

I found XLD on OSX to split any FLAC archive into individual tracks at its original bitrate with little fuss(so long as you have the cue sheet).

However, if you are on a Mac and you want to turn a 24/192 FLAC archive into a redbook CD:

* Duplicate the cue file and put it in a new folder
* Using Saracon or similar software convert the single FLAC file into a 16 bit/44.1 Khz AIFF or WAV (I do this as a precaution)
* Put that AIFF or WAV through Saracon again but transcode it into a 16 bit/44.1 Khz FLAC
* Now you have a 16 bit/44.1 Khz FLAC archive of the original file. Put it into the new folder alongside the duplicated cue
* Open the cue in an audio player like Vox to check that it can read the splits in the FLAC archive
* To split the archive into individual tracks open the cue file in XLD, tag accordingly and transcode to FLAC