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Split APE+CUE into separate APE tracks

Hello all,

I have been beating myself up over this, searching for days to find an answer.  Basically, I have a full image APE with accompanying CUE sheet.  I would like to split the APE file into separate APE files using the CUE sheet to designate each track.  Is it possible to set Foobar to generate a new CUE file referencing the newly created APE files for each track like EAC does?  I'm tired of converting to WAV first like EAC wants you to do. 

Can Foobar generate a new CUE after the APE tracks have been created?

Thanks!

Vassago

Split APE+CUE into separate APE tracks

Reply #1 –
You can use the copy command to create a simple cuesheet from a list of files, but I assume that you want to maintain INDEX 00 entries, and meta data.

The copy command code is:

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FILE "%_path%" $if($stricmp(%__codec%,MP3),MP3,$if($stricmp(%__codec%,AIFF),AIFF,WAVE))$char(10)
   TRACK $num(%_playlist_number%,2) AUDIO$char(10)
$if(%title%,    TITLE "%title%"$char(10),)
$if(%artist%,    PERFORMER "%artist%"$char(10),)
   INDEX 01 00:00:00


If you want a proper conversion I would take a look at CueTools, but this is not a foobar plugin.
I'm on a horse.

Split APE+CUE into separate APE tracks

Reply #2 –
Thanks for the reply.

Actually, I'm not terribly concerned about keeping the meta data because I don't plan on using the cue files for browsing my music, but the ape files directly, so I can read the data from the ape files.  I did find a way to create the cue sheet I was looking for using foo_cue_ex and saving the playlist as a cue sheet, however, it adds the entire path of my audio files into the cue sheet.  Do you know any way around that?

Split APE+CUE into separate APE tracks

Reply #3 –
As far as I know foo_cue_ex does no more than the copy command code I listed above.

Paste that code in as your copy command text, highlight all tracks, right-click and choose to copy the track names (or press Ctrl+C) and then paste into a new text file.

If you don't want the full file path amend the first line to:

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FILE "%_filename_ext%"

If I am still missing the point then I'm afraid that I ned to ask you to elaborate on exactly why you feel you need a cuesheet once you have split your image file into tracks.  I think I may be missing the point.  When you have track files you rarely need a cuesheet, and I'm afraid I still can't quite work out why you feel you need one.  I'm wondering whether you simply need a playlist.

Sorry for being so dim.
I'm on a horse.

Split APE+CUE into separate APE tracks

Reply #4 –
Actually, I'm the one who is dim.

I'm still learning about lossless formats, and I didn't realize that you could still burn multple ape/flac files without a cue without a pause between the tracks using Foobar.  When you do it in Nero with the FLAC plugin, it still creates pauses between the tracks, even if you check the box to exclude them.

So with Foobar, it's possible, so I guess I don't need the CUE's after all.  Thank you very much for your assistance nevertheless.  I'm really beginning to like Foobar.