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Indexing FLAC/CUE image?

Hi,

After a lot of reading and some experimentation, i decided a long time ago to record my CD collection as FLAC/CUE images with EAC.
I keep the .CUE external to the FLAC file for several reasons, and everything is working well with Foobar2000.

However, I wonder if there is a way to index a single track in a FLAC image externally?

What i mean is, i would like to have some sort of file i can click in Windows Explorer (like the .cue file) which will open Foobar2000 and
start playback at a given offset, and will end playback at another given offset, effectively indexing one particular song in a FLAC image.

I have looked at PLS and M3U playlists and they are insufficient for my needs. A .cue file will only provide the starting position, so
the playback will continue until the end of the FLAC image.

The reason i need this is because I want to have "links" inside my media library. For example, under the folder "fates warning" I
keep all fates warning albums, but fates warning performed a cover of a song by "Rush". This track appears in a compilation cd
by various artists, so it is outside the "fates warning" folder. Still, i would like to have a link inside the "fates warning" folder
pointing to the cover song which is part of the flac image in "various artists".

I hope my explanation is clear. Thanks for reading and your comments on this.


Indexing FLAC/CUE image?

Reply #1 –
Sounds like you're asking for something similar to .apl files, but for flac instead of Monkey's Audio.

To my knowledge it doesn't exist, though implementation of such a thing should be pretty easy.

For me it just makes more sense to have individual tracks rather than a image, a cue sheet (embedded or external) and a bunch of files that serve as bookmarks.

Indexing FLAC/CUE image?

Reply #2 –
True, but I hate the gaps between tracks, especially when one song fades into the next one. I never got real gapless playback to work as well as the image
 

Indexing FLAC/CUE image?

Reply #3 –
foobar2000 doesn't have any problems with gapless playback of flac files.

I don't want to guess at what might be at fault here except to make sure that you haven't configured a compression offset in EAC (if that's what you're using).