Re: need a flac utility

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 04/05/14 12:18 AM, Артур Истомин wrote:
> 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

  That's good to know, and IF I had rtfm I would have discovered that :)

  I was in a hurry to get this done ( for my wife who was waiting 
impatiently )...so I fiddled just long enough to get he files
extracted.

Thanks for that.



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