I'm using a cuesheet to define the tracks of a single flac file (in this case the AC3 image ripped from the Rumours DVDA), and want to skip (ie never see) the last track. How do I do that ?

The AC3 file for Rumours includes about 1 minute at the beginning (the DVD menu sound track), the 12 tracks from the album, and then an additional 45 minutes of ramblings from the band. I've successfully used cuesheets to skip the first minute and to define the 12 tracks, but I am then left with a redundant 13th track. What I have done is define INDEX 0 and INDEX 1 for that 13th track so that it is 0s long:

TRACK 13 AUDIO
TITLE "Ramblings"
PERFORMER "Fleetwood Mac"
ISRC 000000000000
INDEX 00 45:45:00
INDEX 01 88:57:00

But I would rather it never existed in the first place. Is there some way of defining those 45 minutes as 'lead out' ?

BTW - I have read the guidelines at http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Cuesheet, but unless I'm missing something that does not tackle this problem.

Hi mortod

Just delete "TRACK 13 AUDIO" and everything after that and then re-save the modified cuesheet.

If I delete 'TRACK 13 AUDIO' and the lines following, then how is the end of track 12 defined (currently it is defined by the start of track 13). I believe I already tried the above, and ended up with track 12 being 50 minutes long.

If you are willing to split the FLAC into two files:
You make a temporary CUE sheet that defines the first track starting at 00:00:00 and a second track starting at 45:45:00. Use CUE Splitter to split the FLAC up into those two halves. Then with the first segment you make a modified CUE that contains your first twelve tracks and another CUE that connects the two segments as a single album.

I doubt you are willing to do this. I have never done/seen anything like you request, but this method I have done.

I would be happy with that as a solution. Unable to download cuesplitter currently (download limit exceeded until 1st Feb), but does cuesplitter support an AC3 flac file ?

I've used CUE Splitter to split some FLAC albums. I don't if there is a significant difference in the file structure between AC3 FLAC and garden-variety FLAC. Since the FLAC supports having a CUE, CS should be able to split yours. Good luck.

Well I be damned - it worked! And the AC3 content was preserved too. Thanks ever so much.