CUE 2 Tracks - Tool for splitting audio CD image to tracks with cue sheet info.

This README based on cue2tracks v0.2.16

Usage: cue2tracks [options]

Options: -R : Stop testing and doing nothing - starts real work. -C : Use colored messages -X : Set XTerm title -W : Force recode to WAV before split. Make image.{codec}.wav -e : Switch to debug mode -L : Set log file. By default - none. -i : Set image file. By default its readed from cue. -c : Setup output codec (flac default). -l : Setup level of compression of output codec (best default). -f : Convert to UTF-8 from this codepage... -d : Disable taging output files with info from cue. -A : Set album title. -P : Set album performer. -D : Set album date. -G : Set album genre. -I : Set album disc ID. -N : Set album disc number. -o : Set naming scheme for output file names. -V : Print version and exit. -n : Process niceness level of codec tools (process scheduling priority): -19 to 19, 0 - default.

Options only for mp3, ogg, m4a: -Q : Set quality of codec compression (4 - default). Quality may be: MP3: 0 - high, 9 - low M4A: 500 - high, 9 - low OGG: 10 - high, -1 - low -B : Set compression bitrate in kbps (128 default). -M : C - Constant, V - Variable (default). If choosen V - then -B specifies maximum bitrate.

Codecs:

wav - no encode, raw wave.

flac (default) - Free Lossless Audio Codec. You can find it at http://flac.sourceforge.net/ or in yours package manager.

flake - FLAC via FFMPEG engine. Look at http://flake.sf.net

ape - Money's Audio Codec. You can find it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-port.

wv - WavPack. You can find it at http://www.wavpack.com or in yours package manager.

shn - shorten. You can find it at http://shnutils.freeshell.org/shorten/ or in yours package manager.

ofr - OptimFROG. You can find it at http://www.losslessaudio.org/.

tta (only for input) - True Audio Codec. You can find it at http://tta.sourceforge.net/

mp3 - MP3 via Lame. Package is 'lame'. Look at http://lame.sourceforge.net.

m4a - AAC in M4A container. Package is 'faac' & 'faad2'. Look at http://www.audiocoding.com.

ogg - OGG. Use vorbis-tools package. Look at http://www.vorbis.com/.

Compression levels:

best or 0 - Slow processing but high compression level

fast or 1 - Fast processing but low compression level

mid or 2 - Middle speel processing and compression level

Codepage:

'codepage' - any codepage of 'iconv -l' output. Used for recode CUE sheet file to UTF-8.

Utils:

For correct work of cue2tracks you need these utils:

cuetools - Most important thing. You can find it at http://developer.berlios.de/projects/cuetools/ or in yours package manager.

shntool - Second important thing. you can find it at http://shnutils.freeshell.org/shntool/ or in yours package manager.

file, iconv - usualy installed, but maybe you'll need check for them.

metaflac - Tool for editing FLAC tags. Comes with flac.

apetag - Tool for editing APEv2 tags. You can find it at http://muth.org/Robert/Apetag/ or in yours package manager.

id3v2 - Tool for editing mp3 tags. Package name is the same. Look at http://id3v2.sourceforge.net/.

mp4tags - Tool for editing m4a tags. Package name is mpeg4ip-utils. Look at http://mpeg4ip.net/.

vorbiscomment - Tool for editing ogg tags. Comes with vorbis-tools.

Naming scheme is:

%A - Album title" %P - Album performer" %D - Album date" %G - Album genre" %a - Album disc number" %t - Track title" %p - Track performer" %g - Track genre" %n - Track number" %N - Track number with leading zero"

Note:

DISCID and DISCNUMBER tags available not for all file types...

To get some action put in console this:

bash$ cue2tracks -o "/path/to/music/%P/%D - %A/%N" -R CDimage.cue

or

bash$ cue2tracks -c ogg -f cp1251 -o "/path/to/music/%P/%D - The best album/Disc %a/%N" -R CDimage.cue