Saturday, October 31, 2009

How to split a music file (flac, wv ...) when given the corresponding .cue file.


This is the second time I needed to do this, so instead of googling again, I thought that I may post it here for future reference .....




Thanks to fl_bulgarelli from the Fedora Forum here is a small how to, when somebody gives you a complete album encoded in flac and a the corresponding .cue file, while what you want is to be able to split the album into smaller music files corresponding to the songs.




The magic command is:


cuebreakpoints album.cue | shnsplit -o flac album.flac


or


cuebreakpoints album.cue | shnsplit -o wv album.wv if you are using a wavpak file.




More details about how to set this up, can be found here. For the shake of completeness I will add that as of this writing (August 20th 2011) both the cuetools and shntool packages are available from the main fedora repository, so a simple yum install shntool cuetools, will work just fine.