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Re: Final Questions before ripping my CD col.- Single wave w/cue or Multiple waves w/cue and naming

Posted by andy_c on April 14, 2007 at 17:25:51

In Reply to: Re: Final Questions before ripping my CD col.- Single wave w/cue or Multiple waves w/cue and naming posted by Dawnrazor on April 14, 2007 at 14:22:31:

I thought the advantage of the cue sheet was that it could recreate an album, where as individual files would just show up as well, individual files?

For file formats like FLAC that support tags, the cue sheet isn't necessary. Here's why. The tags in each file might look like this:

Artist = Allman Brothers Band, The
Track number = 3
Album = Eat A Peach
Title = Melissa

When the playback software scans a collection, it retrieves all of this information into its own database, along with the full path name of each corresponding file. Picture this database as a spreadsheet, where each row is a file (song). Each column might correspond to a tag field above, such as album, artist, etc. with an additional column for the full path of the file name. If you were to sort the spreadsheet by artist name, then by album name, then by track number, the files corresponding to each album would be in consecutive rows of the spreadsheet, with track number 1 first, track number 2 second and so on.

This probably isn't exactly how an actual database is implemented, but you can see how this can easily work. And indeed it does work, both in Foobar and in SlimServer as my collection shows.

The cue sheets may be necessary for untagged WAV files though. I haven't messed with that.

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