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Given a single lossless audio file (wav, flac, ape, wv, etc.) <code>foo</code> and corresponding cue sheet <code>foo.cue</code>, we can split it into separate tracks (compressed by flac) by the following command:<pre>$ shnsplit -f foo.cue -o "flac flac --verify --best -o %f -" -t "%n-%p-%t" -m " _" foo</pre>
Given a single lossless audio file (wav, flac, ape, wv, etc.) <code>foo</code> and corresponding cue sheet <code>foo.cue</code>, we can split it into separate tracks (compressed by flac) by the following command:<pre>$ shnsplit -f foo.cue -o "flac flac --verify --best -o %f -" -t "%n-%p-%t" -m " _" foo</pre>


See <code>man 1 shntool</code> for more options.
See <code>shntool(1)</code> for more options.


Note that the cue sheet file may require removing trailing spaces.
Note that the cue sheet file may require removing trailing spaces.

Revision as of 13:03, 23 September 2011

Given a single lossless audio file (wav, flac, ape, wv, etc.) foo and corresponding cue sheet foo.cue, we can split it into separate tracks (compressed by flac) by the following command:

$ shnsplit -f foo.cue -o "flac flac --verify --best -o %f -" -t "%n-%p-%t" -m " _" foo

See shntool(1) for more options.

Note that the cue sheet file may require removing trailing spaces.

Split points in cue sheet are often specified in the form mm:ss:ff (minutes:seconds:frames). There are 75 frames per second, so ff ranges from 00 to 74. shnsplit accepts this format only for CD‐quality (i.e., 16/44.1) audio files. For other files (e.g., 24/192) the split points must be given in the form mm:ss.nnn (minutes:seconds:milliseconds). We can set

nnn=floor(13.333ff)