Hello!

Foobar is grrreat and it's natural support for albumfiles with support for cue-files is nice. However, when playing album-files i have noticed many times a need for possibility to save separate songs from album to invidual files, as i like them but don't care much for the rest of the album. This feature would be bit like convert except Foobar would just copy the song data from original file to new file and add correct tags for it. With mp3 albumfiles i have used mp3cutter to get songs from full file, but i find it it too cumbersome when it would be much nicer and easier with Foobar. (Also, mp3cutter doesn't have cue-file support and it's only for mp3's.)

There will be more need for this feature on future when full albums contained on Ogg- and Matroska-files become more popular. It's already possible to play chained ogg-files with Foobar (Tested and works great!) and i'm sure that Foobar supports audio-matroska as soon there will be specs and code released for it, at least when Musepack SV8 is out (It's supposed to use audio-Matroska as it's container).

Thanks!

I don't know mp3cutter, but musiCutter supports both Ogg Vorbis and MP3 (including VBR as I recently learned) and will accept CUE files. You then need to run mp3/Tag Studio.

Foobar is a player and isn't designed to do anything with the lossy-compressed files other than decode them. I doubt it would be trivial to add this function, and it's probably not within the scope of what the core FB2K player is meant for. If you used a diskwriter plugin like foo_vorbisenc, foo_mppenc or foo_clienc that would constitute transcoding (degraded quality) unless the original source was lossless.

Can't see it'd be that difficult. I'd think that a player would be the place to add this functionality, because cutting requires knowledge of where the frame boundaries are, as well as knowledge of tagging and VBR voodoo. Players have all this information available. I agree that more CUE file manipulation utilities would be useful. For that matter, replacing CUE with a file that has more metadata functionality would be superb. It would be great if there was a format that supported arbitrary tagging, and it would be more of a bonus if it recorded the position of the various tracks both in a time-based manner and in a file-position-based manner (which would make the slow seeking processes involved much quicker as a result). This quirk of CUEs has been annoying me recently, and a new format (convertable to CUE, of course) would be really great.

Thanks for the hint about musiCutter. Works well, except for tagging part and it's userinterface is bit unfriendly..


Still, i think that this feature would be just perfect for Foobar 2000:

Load Cue-file or chained ogg to Foobar -> Listen & choose songs -> Choose from right-button menu "Copy to a new file" -> Foobar copies songs to new files and adds correct tags from Cue-file or chained ogg.

Fast, nice & easy! B)