For the last 6 months, I've been content with ripping cd's in track mode using eac's test and copy. I then compress them using mp3 (with the aps switch). I then copy a jpg of the cover to the album's directory.

What I really want, is to create one lossless file containing the album's audio, an embedded cue sheet, and a jpg of the album cover. Now I know that flac 1.10 or Matroska may meet my requirements here. However, I see some potential problems.

Flac
1. Does foobar support flacs embedded cuesheets? Last time I checked it didn't.
2. Can I embed a jpg with flac? (this is mostly a rhetorical question, as I'm almost sure I can't.)

Matroska
Has anyone been successful creating a single-file-per-album file with embedded cuesheet and album cover, that can be played back well under foobar2000?

Ripping Pitfalls
Is their any elegant way of automatically ripping any potential index0 of track 1 with EAC? In my opinion the user should be rewind their audio player to the start of this index0 of track 1 (like on a normal cd player). But I suppose it all depends on how foobar handles indexes in embedded cue sheets.

Here is what I have done:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=187270

It is a way to take a FLAC, CUE and LOG file and mux them all into a MKA container with attached original cue sheet and LOG file.

Be careful though, if filenames arent perfect, or an error occurs before the deletion phase, the files will be deleted without the MKA being made. It may be a good idea to disable the deletion phase (type "REM" at the beginning of any lines in the .bat file that use the "del" command).

Post here or email (or pm) me if you have any trouble.

I also made a version to mux a large mp3 and cue file into an MKA file (better than mp3 + cue solution because MKA provides proper seeking in MP3, plus 1 file is tidier than 2 )