CUETools versions 1.9.5 through 2.1.5 (current)
So it looks like there is a threshold of combined audio length for a single cue file in CUETools 2.1.4; when this threshold is exceeded, CUETools will result in a negative combined CRC and the exception will be thrown. Probably 79.8 min, i.e. the maximal length allowed by the Red Book standard .Is there any workaround for this issue? Using a combined cue file for multi CD set can save a lot of time with regards to file naming and tag data for each track. I guess there isn’t. The customary solution recommended for a scenario like this is to use a format that is actually designed for organising and tagging files of arbitrary formats, metadata, lengths, etc. , which a cue-sheet is not. I, too, think it would be quite nice if the ‘standard’ could be extended, revised, or allowed more frequently to diverge from whatever guidelines are being followed by programmers; but no developer (at any point between ripping and playback) is under any obligation to implement it in any other way than is required for its primary purpose. And that’s to represent the ToC of a Red Book audio CD, with any CD-Text and other subcode-based metadata that the user might choose to include. This could take us back to the old argument about whether things outside the standard should just be allowed/ignored when they can’t really have any adverse effects, but rather than starting that, why not keep it simple and see what Gregory thinks? But a single cue file containing multiple FILE commands is still a valid CUE sheet. Not relevant!Honestly, I combined the CUE files because then the output file names (%tracknumber% %artist% - %title%) are numbered correctly, rather than 4 files starting with "01", 4 files starting with "02", and so on. This also applies to the track number tag as well; I want 1/72, 2/72, etc. in stead of 4 files with 1/18, and so on. Is it literally as simple as each disc having 18 tracks? Then you could probably fudge together some code for this set, e.g. :$add(%tracknumber%,$mult($sub(%discnumber%,1),18)) [/s] [Edit: ignore that, seeing as I was referring to foobar2000’s title-formatting rather than CUETools’s; d’oh)][/color] Alternatively, avoiding clashes in numerical sorting is always made simplest by including the disc number before the tracknumber, but I presume you have already discounted this option.