Bug#301892: ITP: cuetools -- tools for manipulating CUE/TOC files

[David Pashley <david@davidpashley.com>]

On Mar 29, 2005 at 01:07, Joshua Kwan praised the llamas by saying:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>
> 
> * Package name    : cuetools
>   Version         : 1.3
>   Upstream Author : Svend Sorenson <sorenson@users.berlios.de>
> * URL             : http://developer.berlios.de/projects/cuetools/
> * License         : GPL
>   Description     : tools for manipulating CUE/TOC files
> 
> cuetools is a set of programs that are useful for manipulating CUE sheet
> (cue) files and Table of Contents (toc) files. The package includes these
> utilities:
> 
>    - cueconvert: convert between CUE and TOC formats
>    - cuebreakpoints: print the breakpoints from a CUE or TOC file
>    - cueprint: print disc and track information for a CUE or TOC file
> 
> Probably the most popular use is to split a large audio file into many
> small files according to a CUE or TOC, for example:
> 
> cuebreakpoints disc.cue | shntool split disc.wav
> 
> I've prepared packages at http://people.debian.org/~joshk/cuetools/.
> 

What are CUE and TOC files? What are they used for? It would be useful
if you say a little bit more about them.

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David Pashley
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