Flac - Sep 2004 - Archiving CDs w/ Flac on Unix (and subsequent re-encoding)

Josh Coalson wrote:
> --- Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> wrote:
> 
>>1) how to generate a cue sheet to store in the flac file (on linux?)
>>    I've seen cddb2cue, is this a decent way?  or cdrdao can
generate
>>    a toc file, then convert that to a cue sheet....
> 
> 
> I think whatever provides cdrdao also provides toc2cue which
> will convert.  one of the flac TODOs is to take cdrdao toc files
> as input.
cuetools looks good, too.... guessing toc parsing might not be so bad to 
implement either, though.
>>2) after I've got a full-CD flac file with a cue sheet and seek
>>points,
>>    how to re-encode this track-by-track, to ogg or mp3?  I don't
see
>>    any command-line flac decoder that can say "play from seek
point
>>    3 to seek point 4"... looks like the flac executable itself can
>>only
>>    seek based on nr of samples, or hh:mm:ss?
> 
> 
> the upcoming flac 1.1.1 release has a new option called --cue, e.g.
> 
> $ flac -d --cue 4 -c file.flac | lame ...
> 
> will pipe track 4 to stdout.
cool!

OTOH I've already started archiving with 1 track per flac file; I don't 
suppose I lose anything by this, if I keep the toc file around I can use 
the decoded flac files to recreate a cd that way too.

Also, not sure there's a good way to put all track name information into 
a single flac file of a CD?

Thanks,

-Eric

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> cuetools looks good, too.... guessing toc parsing might not be so bad to
> implement either, though.
TOC has certain advantages:

    1. You can use it along with the CDRDAO dump to re-create the
    original CD.

    2. It has more information than CUE format.

cjs
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On a related note, are there any tools which can read the Index information  
from a CD and preserve these in some file for later recreation?

The actual TOC on a CD has very little information: just the Absolute Start  
Time of each Track.  Is there any documentation of the "TOC" file
format that
is commonly used?  I do not recall coming across anything.  Obviously, I am  
also interested in similar documentation for the CUE file format.

I am (slowly) working on disk burning software that supports FLAC directly,  
without requiring the time or disk space needed for uncompressing the audio  
before burning.  Uncompression should be possible on-the-fly.  I am mostly  
working with original material which sometimes has index markers, but I would  
also like to find software which can read index markers from existing CDs so  
that this can be preserved when creating a backup/copy.

Brian Willoughby
Sound Consulting


Begin forwarded message:

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> cuetools looks good, too.... guessing toc parsing might not be so bad to
> implement either, though.
TOC has certain advantages:

    1. You can use it along with the CDRDAO dump to re-create the
    original CD.

    2. It has more information than CUE format.

cjs
--
Curt Sampson  <cjs@cynic.net>   +81 90 7737 2974   http://www.NetBSD.org

--- Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> wrote:
> Also, not sure there's a good way to put all track name information
> into 
> a single flac file of a CD?
nope.

http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#general__no_cuesheet_tags

Josh



		
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