In looking for a way to split wav files using a cue sheet in linux, I found bchunk, which seemed like the perfect tool for the job. However, Careful listening shows that bchunk causes a faint chirping sound at the beginning of the first track. This is strange, because I would think that bchunk wouldn't have to cut the beginning of the first song. Has anybody else encountered this problem? I'm using bchunk 1.2.0, which I believe is the most current.

In the mean time, I'm actually writing each cd, then ripping it. This seems very inefficient and possibly error prone.

P.S. I wasn't sure this was the right forum for the question, but I couldn't find one that matched it better.

use shntool/cuebreakpoints like:

cuebreakpoints cdimage.cue | shntool split cdimage.wav

you'll need shntool and cuetools


later

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=23935

I guess I should have posted this thread to that forum. You know what they say about hindsight.

Anyway, you guys pointed me toward some interesting alternatives to bchunk. I'd still like to hear from anyone using bchunk however.

How exactly are you using the tool? Try using google.

My objective is to get a cd recorded as one long flac (or whatever lossless codec) file and chop it up into the appropriate tracks. First I decode to the .wav format (Perhaps I should use pcm instead?), then use bchunk to chop it up, then re-encode to flac for archiving. (why someone would record a cd to a lossless-gapless format as one monolithic file I'll never know!)

These are the steps that I have taken so far:


That works perfectly except for the clicking, or chirping sound at the beginning of the first track. The sound doesn't show up until I run bchunk, so that must be where the problem is.

Why the -w?

[edit] Stupid question -- probably for wave output [/edit]

Why don't you just use another program or embed the cuesheet in the flac? That way you can listen to any track...

I'm installing cuetools and shntools right now. I chose bchunk because a) it was the only program I could find that could handle it on it's own (the method you prescribed uses two seperate programs.) b) A package was available for my distribution, and neither of the packages you recommended was available for my distro.

As for an embedded cue sheet... I remarked on that in the thread you sent me to earlier. I don't know how to use these embedded cue sheets. I doubt amarok or k3b does either. If amarok and k3b could seamlessly handle the metadata, and if each track were taggable in the way that single files are, I'd be very interested.

Thanks guys, the programs that you recommended work beautifully. It's too bad that bchunk had to choke.

you'll come to appreciate shntools - 'tis the swiss army knife of lossless audio