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FLAC with CUE, converted to MP3 and gaps

Hi everyone.

OK. Here's my situation.
  • I've got an album in FLAC file with CUE sheet. It's over 40 tracks mixed into one set.
  • My MP3 player (pretty old Creative MuVo) doesn't read either FLAC format or MP3 with CUE sheet.
  • I'd like to convert my one, big FLAC file, into MP3 files (using the CUE sheet). It's much more convenient for me to navigate through the whole album when I have it divided into pieces.

So - I've imported the CUE sheet into foobar, chose the convert option. My settings are:
  • Output format: MP3 (LAME) with my encoding settings
  • Output style and file name formatting: convert each track to an individual file
  • Processing: none
  • Other: When finished: do nothing

There's only one problem. There are gaps between tracks (short silence at the end of each track when the player starts to play next song in the list)!  How can I convert this single FLAC file into multiple MP3 files but without those gaps?
Przemek "Maverick" Ryk

FLAC with CUE, converted to MP3 and gaps

Reply #1 –
are there gaps when playing the mp3 tracks in foobar? i'm guessing not.

it's more likely it's your mp3 player doesn't support gapless playback. even though you don't want one large mp3, i think that's the only way you'll get gapless playback for this set/album.

FLAC with CUE, converted to MP3 and gaps

Reply #2 –
Quote from: marc2003 on
are there gaps when playing the mp3 tracks in foobar? i'm guessing not.

it's more likely it's your mp3 player doesn't support gapless playback. even though you don't want one large mp3, i think that's the only way you'll get gapless playback for this set/album.


Foobar - no gaps
Media Player Classic Home Cinema - gaps

So it's the player's problem?
Przemek "Maverick" Ryk

FLAC with CUE, converted to MP3 and gaps

Reply #3 –
mp3 is not a gapless format.

One encoder, LAME has a few numbers it calculates and stores in the file's header so that decoders can decode LAME gaplessly, if they know to how to look for and properly use those numbers. Most decoders don't.
elevatorladylevitateme

FLAC with CUE, converted to MP3 and gaps

Reply #4 –
PrzemekRyk, you can convert single FLAC+CUE to WAV files and then use lame with --nogap switch:

lame -b 192 --nogap file1.wav file2.wav file3.wav <...>