I've recently started ripping my collection with EAC using Wavpack to encode losslessly and also adding CUE sheets. I have 2 questions here.

The first is how do I get the cue sheet to use the extension .wv instead of .wav? At the moment I have to go into the cue sheet and remove the letter A from all the file extensions.

The second question is regarding the layout in the CUE sheet. I have read through a lot of the tutorials online and my CUE sheet just doesn't look like the others I have seen. There doesn't appear to be proper indexes. Here is a copy of the cue sheet from Tom Waits - Closing Time:

PERFORMER "Tom Waits"
TITLE "Closing Time"
FILE "01 Ol '55.wv" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Ol '55"
PERFORMER "Tom Waits"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "02 I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You.wv" WAVE
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You"
PERFORMER "Tom Waits"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "03 Virginia Avenue.wv" WAVE
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "Virginia Avenue"
PERFORMER "Tom Waits"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "04 Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards).wv" WAVE
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)"
PERFORMER "Tom Waits"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "05 Midnight Lullaby.wv" WAVE
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "Midnight Lullaby"
PERFORMER "Tom Waits"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "Martha"
PERFORMER "Tom Waits"
INDEX 00 03:25:10
FILE "06 Martha.wv" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "Rosie"
PERFORMER "Tom Waits"
INDEX 00 04:29:67
FILE "07 Rosie.wv" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE "Lonely"
PERFORMER "Tom Waits"

As you can see I seem to get a lot of Index 01 00:00:00 but not so many Index 00... I am currently using the option Multiple Wavs with Gaps (Noncompliant).

I hope someone can help me out here as I have spent a lot of time online trying to work this out myself before posting this question.

If you are using the EAC command "Action > Create CUE Sheet" you will end up with a cuesheet pointing to WAVE files. I don't think there is anyway around this. Note the menu item is "Multiple WAV Files With Gaps... (Noncompliant)"

Your cuesheet is fine. Not all CDs have an INDEX 00 entry on every track.

Basically, you are doing nothing wrong.

If you want an easy way of changing the cuesheet from .wav to .wv, and you have SED on your machine, you could save the following as a .bat file:



Drag the cuesheet onto the batch file and all instances of .wav will be replaced by .wv. The new cuesheet will be saved as "<name>.wv.cue" (it didn't seem to want to overwrite the old one).

Thanks for that. I just had the impression that my cue sheet wasn't looking right. Now I can rest easy

Thanks, adapted that for my FLAC files and some MP3's too (I know about the quality loss).
Didn't know about the GNU tool SED, pretty handy.

Yeah, thanks to nyoachi for that one.

I originally used it in my EAC batch files to create a temporary cuesheet pointing to the temporary wave file, to use with ACDIR. It seemed more sensible than encoding and then ACDIR decoding before piping to LAME.

I expect SED could be hugely useful, but I haven't found the time to investigate its power any further.