I used EAC version .99 prebeta 3 to create a FLAC image file in Windows Vista. I did this by selecting the "Action" pull-down menu within EAC and then selecting "Copy Image and Create Cue Sheet" and then selected "Compressed".
This resulted in a single FLAC file containing all the tracks from an album and a cue sheet file. Problem is when I try to burn the image by selecting the "Tools" pull-down menu, selecting "Write CD-R" and then selecting the "File" pull-down menu from the CD Layout Editor and "Load CUE Sheet" I receive the error message "Error in CUE sheet! File type is not supported in Line 7".
This is a partial view of what my CUE sheet looks like:
REM GENRE "Easy Listening"
REM DATE 2006
REM DISCID A60AC60B
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb3"
PERFORMER "Corinne Bailey Rae"
TITLE "Corinne Bailey Rae"
FILE "Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Like A Star"
PERFORMER "Corinne Bailey Rae"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Enchantment"
PERFORMER "Corinne Bailey Rae"
INDEX 00 04:01:27
INDEX 01 04:03:16
This is the line the error message is referring to: FILE "Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae.flac" WAVE
I did not modify the CUE sheet file in any way. EAC generated it when I created the FLAC image. I know FLAC files need to be converted to .wav files before being burned to CD so this line seems valid. Take the file called "Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae.flac" and convert it to a WAV file to burn to CD. But EAC's CD Layout Editor reports its an invalid file type.
I tried creating an uncompressed image file (.wav) and use the cue sheet to burn the image and that worked fine. But I want to keep the image in FLAC format and not have to take the extra step of converting it to a .wav file myself and then load the cue sheet to burn the image.
Is this a new feature in the beta version that isn't working yet? If not, then why is there an option to burn an image to a compressed file format and create a cue sheet for the flac file if that cue sheet is invalid?