I'm starting to organize all the stuff I've downloaded over the years. Some of the lossless OSTs I downloaded (APE/FLAC/TTA) come in a single huge file, without a cue sheet. Since I prefer having individual tracks, I resort to the following procedures:
- Decode the huge APE/FLAC file into WAV
- Search freedb for suitable entries, which can be converted to a cue sheet with any number of applications
- If huge WAV total playtime does not equal cue sheet playtime:
- Play huge WAV, and try to match up tracks against cue sheets.
- Manually edit cue sheet track times in Notepad
- Mount WAV file as Audio CD in Alcohol 120%
- Confirm accuracy of (modified) freedb cuesheet by cross-checking with GraceNote's CDDB (using Winamp)
- Rip the mounted CD with Exact Audio Copy, using AUTOFLAC script
- Run METAFLAC on converted files to generate Album ReplayGain
- Open FLAC files in Tag and Rename, and tag/rename as necessary
While this process works for me, it is rather time consuming. I was wondering if you fellows have any alternate procedures which are more... painless?
Thanks in advance!
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