Hi,
I have been messing around with a couple of cue sheet tools but cannot figure out how to do this. I have a lot of small flac files with no gaps appended to them and I need to convert them to 1) a single file + cue sheet with gaps appended and 2) multiple files with gaps appended. Files are recordings and I need the 2 formats for PC playback and burning...Can anyone explain how I go about doing this?
Thanks

I am interested in this too. I have some heavy scratched CDs. And backups are gabbed in multiple tracks. However I have EAC logs and can see which way (I mean gaps) was used to grab them. Is there easy way to recover real CD image?

Moitah's CUE tools and/or foobar2000. I have created various batch files that enable one to create different types of cue sheets (which I use in concert with foobar2000) as well.

The OP is a bit vague about the state of gaps, though or I would have answered sooner. EAC uses the term "append" regardless of whether the gap was placed at the end of the previous track or beginning of the next track. "single file + cue sheet with gaps appended" does not make any sense either. As far as burning goes, it doesn't matter what type of cue sheet is used if you use EAC or Burrrn, so long as it correctly matches up with the audio data.

Playback may be a bit more limited though CUE sheets should really only be used with single-file images and proper playlists be used with tracks as individual files. While a cue sheet can be used as a playlist in certain instances, it is not a playlist, nor was it ever intended to be a playlist.

greynol I'll try to explain it better
The files are recordings which were done using a pc. While playing them there is no gap at all between them which I'd like to have. How do I accomplish adding gaps at the end using foobar2000?

There are no CUE files so I don't think CUETools will work

I apologize for being unclear in the first post but I also need the cue+single file so that people can open it in nero and burn that is why I mentioned that. My first goal is to somehow get gaps at the end of these files
Thanks

You don't.

I think you're right but I'm not sure.

It sounds like you need to create cue sheets from scratch. I'm sure there are tools to make this easier for you but don't know of any. I made a batch to do this once, but it's not very sophisticated and isn't worth sharing.

Do this:

1. Open EAC and start the CD Layout Editor (Alt+W or the first selection from the Tools menu).
2. From the Layout menu, make sure Add 2 Second Gap On Append is selected.
3. Drop all your tracks into the window and make sure they are ordered properly.
4. From the File menu, select Save CUE Sheet.
5. Close EAC.
6. Open the newly created cue sheet with a text editor and remove the first instance of PREGAP 00:02:00 (the entire line). If you wish to use something other than 2 seconds, now would be the time to edit the rest of these manually. Don't forget to save it when you're done.

This CUE sheet should work with nero.

After writing this and thinking about how to handle this for playback of the files, why don't you just add the silence with a wave editor instead of playing around with cue sheets?

I guess thats what I'll have to do now. Any suggestions for an application that might do batch processing for such stuff. I tried audacity but its gonna take too long.
Thanks a lot for the help

i have an album saved as a single flac file with cue and i want to convert it to WAV or flac EXACTLY how EAC would have ripped it from the original pressed cd. i'm trying to avoid burning the audio to cd-rs but i dont want to deal with Gap issues.

I tried several methods here. Burned image to cd-rw (ignoring the offset correction needed), and ripped that.
Mounted the image.flac to a virtual drive and ripped that. And option 3: I converted the image.flac to .wav, and in EAC I chose Tools > split wav by cue sheet. It all works but if it's exactly the way EAC would have ripped the original disc ? I don't know.

Moitah's CUETools will do the job with multiple options for gap handling. fb2k will split it using the standard method: gaps appended to the end of the previous track.

Please stay on topic, the thread is about adding silence to the end of individual tracks in flac format, not single-file images...