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Cutting up multiple cue sheets

Hi, I ripped all my favourite albums a long time ago to lossless audio in cue sheets - (FLAC, APE and Wavpack) and the folder structure is arranged via "music\artist\artist - year - album\".
Now I got an 80gb Ipod, with the Rockbox firmware and would like to convert all this music to a lossy format (Mpc or Ogg). I already own DBPowerAmp, which is able to convert all files while maintaining directory structure.
However, since these files are big 400mb+ files with cue sheets, whats the best way of cutting up the cue sheets altogether all at once? Do mind, this is a huge collection and I it would be very stupid to be doing this to each and every folder (2500+ folders!)

Cutting up multiple cue sheets

Reply #1 –
foobar has to be the obvious answer.

If you wanted to script it, then I would say ACDIR or CueProc.

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?ti...sheet#Splitting

Edit: that said, I know nothing about dbPowerAmp; perhaps there is a way that you can mass convert with that.
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Cutting up multiple cue sheets

Reply #2 –
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foobar has to be the obvious answer.


That will depend on your platform.

shntool can also do the job:

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shntool split file.flac -f file.cue -t '%n - %t' -o 'cust ext=ogg oggenc -q 6 - -o %f'


Then you can automate that for you entire directory tree. On the bash shell using the gnu find utility, it could work as following:

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find <directory> -name '*.cue' -execdir shntool split $(basename "{}" cue)flac -f "{}" -t '%n - %t' -o 'cust ext=ogg oggenc -q 6 - -o %f' \;

Cutting up multiple cue sheets

Reply #3 –
Does dbPowerAmp run on *nix?

Isn't it a little perverse to then go on to speak of bash shells, which are not native to Windows? 
I'm on a horse.

Cutting up multiple cue sheets

Reply #4 –
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Does dbPowerAmp run on *nix?

Isn't it a little perverse to then go on to speak of bash shells, which are not native to Windows? 


:oops: I missed the dbPowerAmp thing. Anyway, the info might still be useful for other users, including Mac users. And it still applies to windows users as well:

- shntool is cross platform
- Using cygwin, you can install a bash shell on Windows. There are also versions of the gnu find tool that work 'natively', without a posix emulation layer, under windows. There are likely alternative possibilities to recurse the command over directories under MS Windows using freeware tools or even the Windows shell itself.
- For a huge number of files, command line tools might succeed where graphical tools fail.

Anyway, there is nothing 'perverse' to run Free Software on Windows.  Whether running an unfree OS can be labeled at least as 'slightly perverse' is another discussion that certainly does not belong here
 

Cutting up multiple cue sheets

Reply #5 –
Hi guys, thanks for all the useful posts. But , given all these options, Cueproc, ACDIR, shntool honestly I don't know any coding and don't know exactly which software to use and whats the "bash shell using the gnu find utility"..
I'd appreciate it if somebody , (perhaps chromium? ) could give me the line of code and which piece of software to use.
I want to cut all .cue sheets which could be FLAC, APE, or WAVPACK and convert them to MPC at --xtreme quality with the ID3 tags, same replaygain while maintaining folder structure..

please ?