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CUE 2 Tracks - Tool for splitting audio CD image to tracks with cue sheet info.

This README based on cue2tracks v0.2.16

Usage:
  cue2tracks [options] <cue file>

Options:
  -R            : Stop testing and doing nothing - starts real work.
  -C            : Use colored messages
  -X            : Set XTerm title
  -W            : Force recode to WAV before split. Make image.{codec}.wav
  -e            : Switch to debug mode
  -L <file>     : Set log file. By default - none.
  -i <file>     : Set image file. By default its readed from cue.
  -c <codec>    : Setup output codec (flac default).
  -l <level>    : Setup level of compression of output codec (best default).
  -f <codepage> : Convert to UTF-8 from this codepage...
  -d            : Disable taging output files with info from cue.
  -A <album>    : Set album title.
  -P <performer>    : Set album performer.
  -D <date>     : Set album date.
  -G <genre>    : Set album genre.
  -I <id>       : Set album disc ID.
  -N <number>   : Set album disc number.
  -o <format string>    : Set naming scheme for output file names.
  -V            : Print version and exit.
  -n <level>    : Process niceness level of codec tools (process scheduling priority):
    -19 to 19, 0 - default.

  Options only for mp3, ogg, m4a:
  -Q <quality>  : Set quality of codec compression (4 - default).
  Quality may be:
    MP3:   0 - high,  9 - low
    M4A: 500 - high,  9 - low
    OGG:  10 - high, -1 - low
  -B <bitrate>  : Set compression bitrate in kbps (128 default).
  -M <bitrate mode>     : C - Constant, V - Variable (default).
    If choosen V - then -B specifies maximum bitrate.


Codecs:

  wav - no encode, raw wave.

  flac (default) - Free Lossless Audio Codec. You can find it at
  http://flac.sourceforge.net/ or in yours package manager.

  flake - FLAC via FFMPEG engine. Look at http://flake.sf.net

  ape - Money's Audio Codec. You can find it at
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-port.

  wv - WavPack. You can find it at http://www.wavpack.com or in yours package
  manager.

  shn - shorten. You can find it at http://shnutils.freeshell.org/shorten/ or in
  yours package manager.

  ofr - OptimFROG. You can find it at http://www.losslessaudio.org/.

  tta (only for input) - True Audio Codec. You can find it at http://tta.sourceforge.net/

  mp3 - MP3 via Lame. Package is 'lame'. Look at http://lame.sourceforge.net.

  m4a - AAC in M4A container. Package is 'faac' & 'faad2'. Look at http://www.audiocoding.com.

  ogg - OGG. Use vorbis-tools package. Look at http://www.vorbis.com/.

Compression levels:

  best or 0 - Slow processing but high compression level

  fast or 1 - Fast processing but low compression level

  mid or 2  - Middle speel processing and compression level

Codepage:

  'codepage' - any codepage of 'iconv -l' output. Used for recode CUE sheet file
  to UTF-8.

Utils:

  For correct work of cue2tracks you need these utils:

  cuetools - Most important thing. You can find it at
  http://developer.berlios.de/projects/cuetools/ or in yours package manager.

  shntool - Second important thing. you can find it at
  http://shnutils.freeshell.org/shntool/ or in yours package manager.

  file, iconv - usualy installed, but maybe you'll need check for them.

  metaflac - Tool for editing FLAC tags. Comes with flac.

  apetag - Tool for editing APEv2 tags. You can find it at
  http://muth.org/Robert/Apetag/ or in yours package manager.

  id3v2 - Tool for editing mp3 tags. Package name is the same. Look at
  http://id3v2.sourceforge.net/.

  mp4tags - Tool for editing m4a tags. Package name is mpeg4ip-utils. Look at
  http://mpeg4ip.net/.

  vorbiscomment - Tool for editing ogg tags. Comes with vorbis-tools.

Naming scheme is:

  %A - Album title"
  %P - Album performer"
  %D - Album date"
  %G - Album genre"
  %a - Album disc number"
  %t - Track title"
  %p - Track performer"
  %g - Track genre"
  %n - Track number"
  %N - Track number with leading zero"

Note:

  DISCID and DISCNUMBER tags available not for all file types...

To get some action put in console this:

    bash$ cue2tracks -o "/path/to/music/%P/%D - %A/%N" -R CDimage.cue

or

    bash$ cue2tracks -c ogg -f cp1251 -o "/path/to/music/%P/%D - The best album/Disc %a/%N" -R CDimage.cue

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