[Flac] Archiving CDs w/ Flac on Linux (and subsequent re-encoding)

[Josh Coalson]

--- Eric Sandeen <sandeen at sandeen.net> wrote:
> 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....

I think whatever provides cdrdao also provides toc2cue which
will convert.  one of the flac TODOs is to take cdrdao toc files
as input.

> 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?

the upcoming flac 1.1.1 release has a new option called --cue, e.g.

$ flac -d --cue 4 -c file.flac | lame ...

will pipe track 4 to stdout.

> 3) Finally, can vorbis comments in a flac file store binary data,
> such
>     as album art?

no, comment values are UTF-8.  better to put it in an APPLICATION
block if you have to have it.

Josh


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