[FLAC] Convenient CD archiving

Bjørn Ingmar Berg bjorn.ingmar.berg at gmail.com
Wed Aug 9 06:22:15 UTC 2006


According to http://flac.sourceforge.net/features.html the FLAC format
has a very interesting fature:

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Convenient CD archiving: FLAC has a "cue sheet" metadata block for
storing a CD table of contents and all track and index points. For
instance, you can rip a CD to a single file, then import the CD's
extracted cue sheet while encoding to yield a single file
representation of the entire CD. If your original CD is damaged, the
cue sheet can be exported later in order to burn an exact copy.
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As far as I am able to find out the same is not possible with OGG.
Granted, you can make one OGG-file of an entire CD and keep a
cue-sheet as a file next to it; but it seems FLAC is the only format
that can keep the cue-sheet internal in meta-data.

So:
I want to copy my CDs to FLAC files containing the entire CD and a
cue-sheet, as the FLAC people has described it on the sourceforge
page.  But I cannot figure out how to do this.  It's no problem
ripping CDs in Ubuntu and end up with one FLAC or OGG file per song.
Does anybody have any input on how to do it with whole albums?  With
cue-sheet metadata?


Regards,
Bjørn Ingmar

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