Re: need a flac utility
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 01:18:38PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On 03/05/14 11:51 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> >Frank McCormick:
> >>
> >>I need a utility to allow me to breakup a FLAC sound file. It's
> >>apparently a collection of flac files merged together.
> >>I also have a file which ends in the extension ".cue"
> >>It's a formatted listing of the individual files in
> >>the larger flac file.
> >>
> >>Is a utility available for Debian (Sid) ?
> >
> >My web search suggests that shntool can do this:
> >
> >shntool split -f $cuefile -o flac *.flac
> >
> >I didn't try it myself.
> >
>
> Installed it...and after some fiddling....it worked.
> I will have to rename the files..it didn't keep the original file
> names in the cue sheet for some reason...but I am 95% there.
You need -t option. E.g.
shntool split -f $cuefile -o flac *.flac -t %n-%a\ %t
where %n, %a and %t from man-page:
%p Performer
%a Album
%t Track title
%n Track number
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