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Merging subsongs?

I've got some Ogg Vorbis files which are split into subsongs. However, I'd prefer them to be merged into a single song. Is this possible, and if so, how would I go about it? Failing that, does anyone know if it's possible to 'hide' the subsongs in Foobar so that only one track is displayed?

Merging subsongs?

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I've got some Ogg Vorbis files which are split into subsongs. However, I'd prefer them to be merged into a single song. Is this possible, and if so, how would I go about it?
FooBar2000 has the ability to create a single seemless track of audio for you. There is a plugin foo_cuesheet_creator [0.4.3a] that will almost make the proper CUE you need. You will have to edit it with NotePad to remove all needless FILE paths. Otherwise, it will put the correct minute, second, and frame of each track as if it were part of a seemless track.

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...does anyone know if it's possible to 'hide' the sub-songs in FB2K so that only one track is displayed?
Not quite sure what you mean, but once you make a single file, you can edit the CUE so that multiple, adjacent songs are shown as one.
OP can't edit initial post when a solution is determined  :'-(

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Currently, each track is a single file. The problem, though, is that internally, the Ogg Vorbis files are split into 'subsongs'. They play seamlessly, it's just annoying to have each song show up multiple times in my playlist (each track is split into 3 subsongs, intro, middle, and outro). They're fine in a standard file browser, 1 song per file, but when I add them to FB2K, it reads the subsong data inside the ogg files and shows each song as 3 parts. My guess is that the actual song is stored contiguously in the Ogg Vorbis file, but there must be some metadata within the file that tells a media player to show the file as 3 songs, kind of like a cue file, but stored within the ogg file. I just need a way to remove this metadata.

Edit: Actually, I might be wrong about the metadata thing. The Ogg Vorbis files were originally 3 separate files, which were later concatenated. I couldn't find much information about this, but it appears that this will cause subsongs to be created in the merged file. Something to do with 'chapters' I think, if that's any help.

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I don't think there's any way to make foobar2000 not show all the chains as separate tracks.