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] <cue file>
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 <file> : Set log file. By default - none.
-i <file> : Set image file. By default its readed from cue.
-c <codec> : Setup output codec (flac default).
-l <level> : Setup level of compression of output codec (best default).
-f <codepage> : Convert to UTF-8 from this codepage...
-d : Disable taging output files with info from cue.
-A <album> : Set album title.
-P <performer> : Set album performer.
-D <date> : Set album date.
-G <genre> : Set album genre.
-I <id> : Set album disc ID.
-N <number> : Set album disc number.
-o <format string> : Set naming scheme for output file names.
-V : Print version and exit.
-n <level> : Process niceness level of codec tools (process scheduling priority):
-19 to 19, 0 - default.
Options only for mp3, ogg, m4a:
-Q <quality> : 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 <bitrate> : Set compression bitrate in kbps (128 default).
-M <bitrate mode> : 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