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khyber

Dec 5 2007, 13:43

Hey.

Let me quickly describe how I plan to archive my music (in lossless FLAC format):

For each album I want to have all the tracks as single .flac files AND a .cue file (in case I want to burn the tracks quickly on cd).
So, let's say all I have are the single .flac files of an album. Now I need a .cue file for the album, so I'm creating one with foobar (Utils -> Save as cuesheet...), which seems to work fine.

But when I try to burn the .flac files to CD by opening the adequate .cue file with Nero, it gives me an errror message, that says that an error occured while loading the cue sheet file (line 1).

This is my cue sheet:

QUOTE

REM GENRE Doom Metal
REM DATE 1995
PERFORMER "Anathema"
TITLE "The Silent Enigma"
FILE "01. Anathema - Restless Oblivion.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Restless Oblivion"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "02. Anathema - Shroud Of Frost.flac" WAVE
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Shroud Of Frost"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "03. Anathema - ...Alone.flac" WAVE
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "...Alone"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "04. Anathema - Sunset Of The Age.flac" WAVE
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "Sunset Of The Age"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "05. Anathema - Nocturnal Emission.flac" WAVE
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "Nocturnal Emission"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "06. Anathema - Cerulean Twilight.flac" WAVE
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "Cerulean Twilight"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "07. Anathema - The Silent Enigma.flac" WAVE
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "The Silent Enigma"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "08. Anathema - A Dying Wish.flac" WAVE
TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE "A Dying Wish"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "09. Anathema - Black Orchid.flac" WAVE
TRACK 09 AUDIO
TITLE "Black Orchid"
INDEX 01 00:00:00

Dou you guys see any problem when using this "method"? Or is there anything you think I should do differently?

Thanks in advance!

kwanbis

Dec 5 2007, 14:02

You are trying to record it as CD-AUDIO, or CD-DATA? You should do it as DATA.

khyber

Dec 5 2007, 14:19

QUOTE(kwanbis @ Dec 5 2007, 21:02)

You are trying to record it as CD-AUDIO, or CD-DATA? You should do it as DATA.

Well, all I do is opening the .cue file by rightclicking it in explorer and open it with Nero... So there's no option to chose from, the first thing that I see (after the splash screen) is the error message...

Oh, and why should I burn it as CD-DATA? I mean, I want it to be a normal audio CD, so I can play it with any CD player...

EagleScout1998

Dec 5 2007, 16:59

One question: Are you ripping each track individually? Or are you ripping the entire CD as a single FLAC file. If it is the former, than there is no need to use a CUE sheet in order to burn the CD. You've already got Nero installed. If you have the foo_burninate.dll in the C:\foobar2000\components folder, than all you need to do is load the FLACs into foobar and you can burn a CD that way.

In either case, the CUE sheet has to be in the same directory as the FLAC file(s).

pdq

Dec 5 2007, 17:35

Why does your topic title ask about archiving when your question seems to concern burning audio CDs?

khyber

Dec 6 2007, 00:57

QUOTE(EagleScout1998 @ Dec 5 2007, 23:59)

Yeah, each track individually...

I know that I don't need the .cue, but I want a clean one-click-solution (but still want to be able to access all the tracks one by one)... And besides that, I'm pretty curious why my .cue doesn't work, while others seem to work fine.

verbajim

Dec 6 2007, 02:12

I'm sure it's just that Nero chokes on the byte order mark (if the encoding is UTF-8). The simple solution is to open the cue sheet in Notepad and go to File > Save As... in the toolbar, select ANSI as the encoding, and save it as a new file (or overwrite the old, that's up to you).

collector

Dec 8 2007, 13:36

And other programs, like Burrrn, do they recognize and accept your cue sheet ?

One thing I noticed is that your cue layout isn't indented. My cue sheets have two spaces before 'track' and have 4 spaces before 'title',' performer' and 'index'. Maybe it's not important and no problem for Nero but my Burrrn needs it.

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