I've just finished a huge job of ripping a big collection of CDs to a lossless format (ape) with embedded cuesheets. I have now tagged (in foobar2000) all the Genre types and BPM info for each file, and I realize now that this information only exists within foobar2000's database, which isn't terribly useful in the event that it gets nuked, or I want to use these apes on another computer.

Is there a way to add these Genre and BPM (and even replaygain) information into the embedded cuesheet. I presume that's the only way that it could be done, as the ape tag itself would only apply to the entire album, and not each individual song.

I'm guessing that it would be similar to the format that replaygain is added into the files... i.e. after each track
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -7.84 dB
REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 0.980010

would something like this be useable by foobar2000 for storing genre information within the file too?

Oops, I guess foobar2000 does automatically add the replaygain info to the embedded tag when you use the replaygain scanner. As for genre and bpm... I'm not so sure how to actually add that info permanently into the file.

You can't add extra tags to the imbedded cuesheet itself, but you can simply add normal tags to the file itself. Although that will only work on a per album basis and not per individual track.

*sigh* yeah, I've decided that the only way around this problem of mine is to split up all these single file albums into individual ape files.

If the genre and year and such is different for each song, and they aren't seamlessly mixed, then I guess there aren't all too many benefits to single file rips anyways. Now I've gotta re-encode them all to apes. Crap... a bit of a headache, but whatever. Manageable. I just wish there was at least some way of "backing up" the foobar database so it could be easily reloaded, or transferred to another system along with the songs.

I've encountered same issue.. and it looks like matroska container solved my problem (just started to use it). Not only you can add different tags to different songs within one album file. But you can embed album covers and whatever you really like into this same file.