I have several hour long music files, both lossy (mp3) and non-lossy (since they are non-lossy, the format really doesn't matter, they can always be converted) that I sometimes wishes to split according to their cue sheet.
What is the current software status on Mac OS X (GUI or CLI) for this purpose? I have tried xACT 1.4b28 but mybe I am stupid, but I don't understand how to do it. For example, I had an ape/cue-combo:
1. converted the ape to wav
2. removed the header from the cue sheet so it begins:
FILE "CDImage.wav" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Terrible angels"
PERFORMER "Coco Rosie"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "By your side"
PERFORMER "Coco Rosie"
INDEX 01 04:06:23
3. in xACT under the shntool tab I selected split, added my wav from (1), clicked 'call shntool' and selected the cue-sheet
but the output is just a bunch of files named:
split-track001.wav
split-track002.wav
split-track003.wav
split-track004.wav
split-track005.wav
split-track006.wav
split-track007.wav
split-track008.wav
split-track009.wav
split-track010.wav
split-track011.wav
split-track012.wav
What happened to the meta-data?
Maybe I should describe what I want to do. Genreally I have two quite different needs:
1. reconstruct the cd-image so I can make an image, mount it, get the data from CDDB in iTunes and convert it to mp3 with lame. Or something like that, that is, a fairly automatic process.
2. In some cases when the music is continuos I would like to make the split a few seconds before the actual track change and have it automatically fade in/out as appropriate. However, the naming etc of the tracks should still be automatic like in my previous description.
I hope my description was clear enough. As I said, I have tried to accomplish (1) with xACT but it looses all the metadata. I have also tried (1) with Toast 6 but it rejects my bin/cue-combo (I have renamed the wav-file with a bin-extension) claiming that the cue sheet is invalid.
Any suggestions?
Full Version: Automatic editing with cue sheets
For your mp3 images, you can split them with mp3splt, which is available for MacOS. For your lossless files, I can't help as I don't use Macs.
A new version of shntool is imminent, and one of its new features is the ability to name split files based on fields in CUE sheets. It will probably take some time for this feature to be added to xACT, but you could always use the command-line. 
For example, I ran your partial CUE sheet above on a sample hour-long file, and below are the output files that would be created (in the -t option, %p = performer, %a = album, %t = track title, and %n = track number):
For example, I ran your partial CUE sheet above on a sample hour-long file, and below are the output files that would be created (in the -t option, %p = performer, %a = album, %t = track title, and %n = track number):
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% shntool split -p -t "(%p) - %n - %t" -o wav -w -f coco.cue hourlong.ape
Preview of changes:
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File 'hourlong.ape' (60:00.00) will be split into 2 pieces:
1. '(Coco Rosie) - 01 - Terrible angels.wav' (4:06.23)
2. '(Coco Rosie) - 02 - By your side.wav' (55:53.52)
Preview of changes:
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File 'hourlong.ape' (60:00.00) will be split into 2 pieces:
1. '(Coco Rosie) - 01 - Terrible angels.wav' (4:06.23)
2. '(Coco Rosie) - 02 - By your side.wav' (55:53.52)
Thanks for your answer, it looks great. In which version of shntool will this function be available?
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