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Roosh

Aug 15 2003, 13:25

Ok, I'm going koo-koo here with these "file open failed" errors in Mp3DirectCut followed by attempts to edit the cue, then the error again, and so on.

The file is "Beck - Sea Change (EAC, APE CUE).rar". I already decompressed the file in M.A. and was going to use Mp3DirectCut to split the wav. It isn't accepting the cue (nor did EAC at first -- it thankfully specifically tells you what is wrong, until it was deemed acceptable, but EAC doesn't split waves, or does it? Anyway, I copied the EAC accepted cue into the cue itself, and Mp3DirectCut still did not accept it.)

I've tried all kinds of configurations -- adding the file's path in "FILE:", leaving it out, adding .wav to the file, adding .ape to the file, entering "Wave" and "Wav" outside the file's name -- nothing! Here is just an example of the latest failed configuration. Hopefully someone can help. Thanks.

QUOTE

PERFORMER "Beck"
TITLE "Sea Change"
FILE "C:\Music\BECK\Sea Change\Beck - Sea Change" wave

TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "The Golden Age"
PERFORMER "Beck"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Paper Tiger"
PERFORMER "Beck"
INDEX 00 04:34:61
INDEX 01 04:36:43
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "Guess I'm Doing Fine"
PERFORMER "Beck"
INDEX 01 09:12:08
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "Lonesome Tears"
PERFORMER "Beck"
INDEX 01 14:01:30
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "Lost Cause"
PERFORMER "Beck"
INDEX 01 19:39:03
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "End of the Day"
PERFORMER "Beck"
INDEX 01 23:26:30
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "It's All In Your Mind"
PERFORMER "Beck"
INDEX 01 28:29:35
TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE "Round The Bend"
PERFORMER "Beck"
INDEX 01 31:35:15
TRACK 09 AUDIO
TITLE "Already Dead"
PERFORMER "Beck"
INDEX 01 36:50:32
TRACK 10 AUDIO
TITLE "Sunday Sun"
PERFORMER "Beck"
INDEX 01 39:49:28
TRACK 11 AUDIO
TITLE "Little One"
PERFORMER "Beck"
INDEX 01 44:33:63
TRACK 12 AUDIO
TITLE "Side Of The Road"
PERFORMER "Beck"
INDEX 01 49:00:55

Jan S.

Aug 15 2003, 13:32

You need an extension of that file and you might want to use a relative path instead.
Secondly yes EAC does split wav files.
EAC --> tools --> split wave by cue-sheet.

Roosh

Aug 15 2003, 15:05

Finally! I was able to do it in EAC. Thanks.

So why do you think EAC accepted the cue and MDC didn't?
Btw, I don't know what you mean by using a "relative" path.

Gnerma

Aug 19 2003, 04:28

This is a relative path

QUOTE

PERFORMER "Beck"
TITLE "Sea Change"
FILE "Beck - Sea Change.wav" wave

If you do this the program will assume the file is in the same directory as the cue sheet. This makes a whole lot more sense because you can move the wav and cue files around anywhere and all is well as long as they are together.

MP3directCut probably does not want to take the file because A] you had no file extension in the cue sheet or B] MP3directcut does not cut files that are not MP3.

A small aside, you don't ever want to split up MP3 files. It leaves very noticeable and very annoying artifacts behind right where the files were cut apart. Major audio players support reading cuesheet and then showing track titles and times etc in the playlist. Foobar2000 does this natively, for winamp you need a plugin.

I have all my ripped albums as single lossless files with cue sheets. I find it easier to deal with that way, its something you might consider.

EDIT - Invision turned my B] into a smilie

Roosh

Aug 19 2003, 13:01

Thanks for the reply.

-I have split an ape file w/ Mp3Directcut before -- that was also part of why I didn't understand the failure...

-What brought about that aside?

Gnerma

Aug 19 2003, 13:04

QUOTE(Roosh @ Aug 19 2003, 11:01 AM)

What brought about that aside?

Oh I dunno.. You were messing around with this stuff so I figured I'd warn you about that if you did not know about it. I learned the hard way so I'd hate for you or anybody else to have to.

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