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Cue sheet problem going from APE to FLAC

Hi guys

My this is my first thread on the forum. I hope its in the correct sub.

I have a few .ape files with their respective .cue sheets (and the EAC extraction logfile, if that makes a difference). I've been using CUETools to "rip" individual FLAC files of each song from the .ape files. A few CDs out of the collection have worked, a few haven't (3/17 not working).

This is the cue sheet of one of the .ape files :

Quote
REM GENRE Classical
REM DATE 1992
REM DISCID AA11A51D
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.95b3"
PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
TITLE "Chopin Mazurkas"
FILE "CDImage.ape" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 6, No. 1 In F Sharp Minor"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 00:00:00
    INDEX 01 00:00:33
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 6, No. 2 In C Sharp Minor"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 01 03:09:33
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 6, No. 3 In E Major: Vivace"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 03:09:33
    INDEX 01 05:40:33
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 6, No. 4 In E Flat Minor: Presto Ma Non Troppo"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 03:09:33
    INDEX 01 08:00:33
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 7, No. 1 In B Flat Major: Vivace"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 03:09:33
    INDEX 01 08:58:33
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 7, No. 2 In A Minor: Vivo Ma Non Troppo"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 95:43:56
    INDEX 01 11:31:33
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 7, No. 3 In F Minor"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 03:10:08
    INDEX 01 15:01:33
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 7, No. 4 In A Flat Major: Presto Ma Non Troppo"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 03:09:33
    INDEX 01 17:29:33
  TRACK 09 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 7, No. 5 In C Major: Vivo"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 03:09:33
    INDEX 01 18:53:13
  TRACK 10 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 17, No. 1 In B Flat Major: Vivo E Risoluto"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 03:09:58
    INDEX 01 19:36:33
  TRACK 11 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 17, No. 2 In E Minor: Lento Ma Non Troppo"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 03:09:33
    INDEX 01 22:02:33
  TRACK 12 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 17, No. 3 In A Flat Major: Legato Assai"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 03:09:33
    INDEX 01 23:50:33
  TRACK 13 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 17, No. 4 In A Minor: Lento Ma Non Troppo"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 03:10:08
    INDEX 01 28:39:33
  TRACK 14 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 24, No. 1 In G Minor: Lento"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 05:55:31
    INDEX 01 32:40:33
  TRACK 15 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 24, No. 2 In C Major: Allegro Non Troppo"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 08:43:63
    INDEX 01 35:32:33
  TRACK 16 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 24, No. 3 In A Flat Major: Moderato"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 11:03:33
    INDEX 01 37:52:08
  TRACK 17 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 24, No. 4 In B Flat Minor: Moderato"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 13:08:56
    INDEX 01 39:57:33
  TRACK 18 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 30, No. 1 In C Minor: Allegretto Non Tanto"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 17:48:01
    INDEX 01 44:51:33
  TRACK 19 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 30, No. 2 In B Minor: Vivace"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 18:53:15
    INDEX 01 46:28:33
  TRACK 20 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 30, No. 3 In D Flat Major: Allegro Non Troppo"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 20:26:53
    INDEX 01 47:58:33
  TRACK 21 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 30, No. 4 In C Sharp Minor: Allegretto"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 22:45:15
    INDEX 01 51:05:33
  TRACK 22 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 33, No. 1 In G Sharp Minor: Mesto"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 27:27:69
    INDEX 01 55:16:33
  TRACK 23 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 33, No. 2 In D Major: Vivace"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 29:22:44
    INDEX 01 57:02:15
  TRACK 24 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 33, No. 3 In C Major: Semplice"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 31:22:44
    INDEX 01 59:16:33
  TRACK 25 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 33, No. 4 In B Minor"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 33:58:49
    INDEX 01 60:56:33
  TRACK 26 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 41, No. 1 In E Minor: Andantino"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 38:30:48
    INDEX 01 65:53:00
  TRACK 27 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 41, No. 2 In B Major: Animato"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 40:17:40
    INDEX 01 68:15:40
  TRACK 28 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 41, No. 3 In A Flat Major: Allegretto"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 42:44:02
    INDEX 01 69:34:13
  TRACK 29 AUDIO
    TITLE "op. 41, No. 4 In C Sharp Minor: Maestoso"
    PERFORMER "Frederic Chopin"
    INDEX 00 44:54:42
    INDEX 01 71:47:73



The first problem I was having was with TRACK 06. If you look at INDEX 00, its 95:43:56 which is out of range (past 75:17:00) according to CUEtools. Now, I presumed this was an error and changed it to 03:09:33,and it still did not work.

This time, the error was "Exception: Indexes must be in chronological order", which leads me to believe that there is a problem further down the list as well.

This is the same problem I'm having on all three .ape files, "Index out of range" but for different timestamps.

Is there anyone that can help me ?

PS: I hope I used the correct terminology. I'm very new to this stuff.

Cue sheet problem going from APE to FLAC

Reply #1 –
You could try editing the CUE file to remove all the "INDEX 00" references.  Make a back-up first.

Cue sheet problem going from APE to FLAC

Reply #2 –
Quote from: Apesbrain on
You could try editing the CUE file to remove all the "INDEX 00" references.  Make a back-up first.


Well, that was quick !

So, I deleted all traces of INDEX 00. Tried it again and CUETools said that the first index has to start at the beginning of the file. So I changed TRACK 01, INDEX 01 to 00:00:00.

Tried to run it again, and CUETools then referred to the .log file and asked me to confirm that was the correct one, which I did.

Then it opened up another prompt and (I'm guessing) tried to match the .cue file online. It found a match (from MusicBrainz Picard database) and asked me to confirm.

I think it used the info from there to do the rip. The files work perfectly and are tagged too.

Amazing software. Thanks for the help.