Hi,

I have an mp3 of an album, but I do not have the cue file for it, so I'm trying to make the cue file myself.

I found the album on freedb here: http://www.freedb.org/freedb_search_fmt.ph...isc&id=b80d682e

but as you can see, only the minutes and seconds are given. I would like to be more accurate with my cue file.

In a cue file, does "INDEX 01 05:41:20" mean 20 frames or 20 milliseconds or what?

Is there anyway that I can use the track frame offsets given for the album here?: http://www.freedb.org/freedb/misc/b80d682e

How many frames are in a second?

By the way, this is an album with no track gaps on any track, so I don't need to worry about that.

Thanks.

Hi PlazzTT

Not to come down on you in particular but I find questions like this a bit annoyning because they don't explain 'what' or 'why' you are trying to accomplish something. It really helps to give a better answer if you provide a few more details about the situation.

Ie - "I have an mp3 of an album, but I do not have the cue file for it, so I'm trying to make the cue file myself." - Ok you are trying to make a cue - the 'What' but no why? Because to have a cue for 1 mp3 makes no sense. If you mean you have all the mp3s for that album and you would like the cue sheet then that is a different story.

Silly me - I think I see the light - you've downloaded the album as one big mp3 and you want to split it up? People who release those albums without the cues should be shot.
Anyways the short sweet answer is don't re-invent the wheel - go to http://www.regeert.nl/cuesheet/ and do a search for "As Heard on Radio Soulwax pt. 3" - you should see the 1 entry for the cue sheet - download it and split the album with EAC (at least I think EAC can do it).
Word of advice - Don't try to create cue sheets if ever possible - it is like trying to re-create the mona lisa - you might get close but there can only be one original.

- 20 is the fraction of 1 second divided into 100, ie 5mins 41 secs 20/100 sec (5:41.2)

Hope this helps

I believe that's mm:ss:ff, where ff is 75 frames per second.

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The '20' *should* be the number of frames; whether the cuesheet in question uses frames or milliseconds is another question. I'm not familiar with the resource mentioned in the previous post, but an easy way to tell would be check several cuesheets from the source and see whether the last two digits ever exceed 75.



"1 second divided into 100 [seconds]" = 100 seconds. I think you meant to say "20 is the fraction of 1 second divided *by* 100" multiplied by 20." But that's splitting hairs... ;-)





75.

Dave

The complete cue-sheet specs are available in the helpfile of cdrwin.

Do you know about Cuesheet Heaven or Cuemaster? I guess these should do it for you.

The first one is a database of CUE sheets, you might find your album there. The second one creates a CUE sheet given a freedb entry. For the latter I don't know what it does to the gaps because this info is not contained in a freedb query AFAIK: it probably puts no gaps or constant gaps between tracks which you might be forced to edit the cue file and modify yourself.