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In Reply to: Re: Final Questions before ripping my CD col.- Single wave w/cue or Multiple waves w/cue and naming posted by andy_c on April 14, 2007 at 10:54:33:
If you rip to individual files (one file per song instead of one file per CD), the cue sheet becomes unnecessaryI thought the advantage of the cue sheet was that it could recreate an album, where as individual files would just show up as well, individual files?
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I thought the advantage of the cue sheet was that it could recreate an album, where as individual files would just show up as well, individual files?For file formats like FLAC that support tags, the cue sheet isn't necessary. Here's why. The tags in each file might look like this:
Artist = Allman Brothers Band, The
Track number = 3
Album = Eat A Peach
Title = MelissaWhen the playback software scans a collection, it retrieves all of this information into its own database, along with the full path name of each corresponding file. Picture this database as a spreadsheet, where each row is a file (song). Each column might correspond to a tag field above, such as album, artist, etc. with an additional column for the full path of the file name. If you were to sort the spreadsheet by artist name, then by album name, then by track number, the files corresponding to each album would be in consecutive rows of the spreadsheet, with track number 1 first, track number 2 second and so on.
This probably isn't exactly how an actual database is implemented, but you can see how this can easily work. And indeed it does work, both in Foobar and in SlimServer as my collection shows.
The cue sheets may be necessary for untagged WAV files though. I haven't messed with that.
Hey,You are right about the need for them with .wavs.
One nice thing is that with cue sheets, you can just show the artist and album, not the 10 songs:
-Rem Document
-Rem MurmurAns still have a drop down if you want to see the songs too.
As opposed to the none cue sheet option that I am guesing looks something like this:
Rem Document Finest Worksong
Rem Document Welcome to the occupation
Rem Document Exhuming McCarthyWhich appears to be the norm of most players. Song based vs. album based.
I think the restrictions you're referring to only apply to WAV files though. My collection is FLAC, and all the cue sheets I have point to nonexistent files (the original WAVs that were deleted after the conversion to FLAC). Here is a screen capture of a portion of my library. The full hierarchy is there.
I don't use Foobar much though. Since I have SlimServer, I usually just use SoftSqueeze to play music over my dinky computer speakers.
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