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Foobar skips first track pregap when decoding

Reply #25
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to produce files with errors; first, excessive seektables in converted FLACs


This issue is caused by piping, using - instead of %s and you're not using the latest version which has got --ignore-chunk-sizes. Conversions like that will maxout the points in the seektable, up to 1250 or something. Audio data is untouched though, unless your WAV has got no foreign metadata - it could get encoded as audio. To avoid this issue, don't use the pipe encoding or use the flac command line or a batch script. I suggest that you learn the command line and use some script for this task. If it's foobar2000 then don't use -, use %s instead. From what I've read, WavPack doesn't suffer from this.

As for the cuesheets and indexes, I don't think they are that important anymore since the whole world is going completely digital and file-management based. It is sensible the way foobar2000 treats cuesheets now though.

 

Foobar skips first track pregap when decoding

Reply #26
My problem is similar. Look. I have an APE file with CUE.

Code: [Select]
REM DISCID A40C960C
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.95b4"
PERFORMER "ZZZ"
TITLE "ZZZ"
FILE "ZZZ.ape" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    PERFORMER "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 00:00:00
    INDEX 01 00:00:33
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    PERFORMER "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 03:44:19
    INDEX 01 03:45:68
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    PERFORMER "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 08:43:60
    INDEX 01 08:45:43
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    PERFORMER "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 13:15:20
    INDEX 01 13:17:25
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    PERFORMER "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 17:55:73
    INDEX 01 17:58:50
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    PERFORMER "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 22:14:38
    INDEX 01 22:16:15
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    PERFORMER "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 26:04:43
    INDEX 01 26:09:03
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    PERFORMER "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 30:22:53
    INDEX 01 30:24:70
  TRACK 09 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    PERFORMER "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 34:59:25
    INDEX 01 35:02:05
  TRACK 10 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    PERFORMER "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 39:57:51
    INDEX 01 40:00:45
  TRACK 11 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    PERFORMER "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 43:09:30
    INDEX 01 43:11:70
  TRACK 12 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    PERFORMER "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 49:13:15
    INDEX 01 49:15:60



After I convert it to FLAC with embeded CUE using Foobar 0.9.6 I get this:

Code: [Select]
REM DISCID A40C960C
REM COMMENT ExactAudioCopy v0.95b4
PERFORMER "ZZZ"
TITLE "ZZZ"
FILE "CDImage.wav" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    PREGAP 00:00:33
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 03:43:61
    INDEX 01 03:45:35
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 08:43:27
    INDEX 01 08:45:10
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 13:14:62
    INDEX 01 13:16:67
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 17:55:40
    INDEX 01 17:58:17
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 22:14:05
    INDEX 01 22:15:57
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 26:04:10
    INDEX 01 26:08:45
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 30:22:20
    INDEX 01 30:24:37
  TRACK 09 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 34:58:67
    INDEX 01 35:01:47
  TRACK 10 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 39:57:18
    INDEX 01 40:00:12
  TRACK 11 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 43:08:72
    INDEX 01 43:11:37
  TRACK 12 AUDIO
    TITLE "ZZZ"
    INDEX 00 49:12:57
    INDEX 01 49:15:27


As you can see the second CUE contains different tags (for example PREGAP). I tried to decompress both (APE and FLAC) files to WAV single files and WAV tracks using Foobar. It seems there are no difference between them. What do you think? Can it be that this difference in CUE files can affect decompressed file in some situation? Is it normal? Or is it some sort of a bug?
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