[Flac] Archiving CDs w/ Flac on Linux (and subsequent re-encoding)
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at sandeen.net
Sat Sep 11 19:04:57 PDT 2004
This must be possible; not sure how to do it yet. :)
After facing the thought of going through my cd collection for a 3rd
time for re-encoding, it occurred to me that I should just flac the
whole CD and add a cue sheet, and then back up to DVDs. That way -next-
time I need to re-encode to any format, I can handle ~1/20th the discs,
compared to my whole cd collection. :)
Wondering if anyone has a good way to do this; my primary questions are:
1) how to generate a cue sheet to store in the flac file (on linux?)
I've seen cddb2cue, is this a decent way? or cdrdao can generate
a toc file, then convert that to a cue sheet....
2) after I've got a full-CD flac file with a cue sheet and seek points,
how to re-encode this track-by-track, to ogg or mp3? I don't see
any command-line flac decoder that can say "play from seek point
3 to seek point 4"... looks like the flac executable itself can only
seek based on nr of samples, or hh:mm:ss?
3) Finally, can vorbis comments in a flac file store binary data, such
as album art?
Thanks for any info & pointers (and I hope this reaches a person or two,
what with the recent mailing list hosting change....)
-Eric
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