i was recommended this program for flacs ripped as full albums with .cue, anyone experienced with this program and can vouch for it or know any reason i shouldnt use it

if you listen to music with foobar2k, this separate util is unnecessary

i'm not really looking into being locked in to a propriety application, but thanks for the recommendation.

it seems to work fine on the occasions I have used it, assuming the cue sheet is accurate.

the only issue I have seen is that the resulting split flac files do not have the crc checksum that natively encoded files have.

of course, the most obvious but not necessarily the most convenient solution for that, is to re-rip to individual files if you wanted to ensure perfect individual files with accompanied crc.

as you wish, although cue splitter is also a closed source freeware (just like foobar2k)

Is that the program by Medieval Software? If so, I wouldn't use it. In addition to the lack of flac fingerprints mentioned above it doesn't cut tracks right on the sector boundary, and I've seen a case where it trimmed some silence off the end of each track as well.

Instead, have a look at Nyaochi's CueProc.

thanks for the responses but i think i'll just burn and rerip (i think i can do that with EAC?). someone mentioned a good FOSS program but you need to use the command line

That's a crazy idea. CUETools will do what you need (if you don't want to use CueProc or ACDIR on the commandline).

hmmm, i was under the impression that CUETools required command line usage... i'll check it out

I had used it, but now I don't need; it is far easier (and works better) within Foobar:
1/ Util : "Edit cuesheet", "enable embedded cuesheet", "load".
2/ Reload same file in FB, the tracks should be there, select all, then "convert to same folder" (level 0 is faster)
3/ In Explorer, delete cue file and original Flac.

Hope this helps.
"To nobody, except those who will take pleasure here" (Franz Schubert, 1797-1828)

The Foobar learning curve is a bit longer than usual but it is worth while.
I have tested a lot of utilities, now I only une Foobar and sometimes MP3tag.

i had cues for the decoded wavs of the flacs so i used the EAC feature 'split wav by cue sheet'. some people are skeptical about losing a few seconds of music by doing this though...

If you're paranoid, one can always concatenate the split tracks' data back into a single image and compare it to the original. That'll ensure no audio has been lost in the process.

With shntool, you can split from the command line:

shntool split file.flac -f file.cue -t '%n - %t' -o -o 'flac flac --best - -o %f'

I've successfully used it as well. It splits image files to cuesheets while preserving TRACK 00 leadins correctly.

However I got tired of error messages and it's inablility to split files that were not the exact correct length.

My recommendation is foobar2000. It should do everything you want (who uses TRACK 00 anyway...?)

Boy, what a world... I found the Cue Splitter to be ok for splitting Monkey's Audio; the resulting files match the original image. For some reason, though, splitting FLACs from a cue sheet results in a set of files with fewer total samples and slightly shorter runtime (in the most recent case, .029 of a second, but it's obviously a difference when it shouldn't be). Finally, the resultant individual FLACs do lack MD5 data (they appear as all 0s) and the information about the FLAC version is, for some reason, stripped from the files.

Now, alternatively, I could use Foobar to split the files, but then the resultant files have no seektables. Joy! Or maybe I'd use the CueProc program, which I'm sure is fine... but it's 2008 and I'd really you know, like to never use a command line program for the rest of my life.

Why does this have to be such an issue?