CUE Sheet Settings

[thejamesjr]

I first rip my CD's to FLAC and encode to Lossless Level 5. Than I rip a second time to [CUE Sheet Image], but do I encode to [CUE Sheet Image], FLAC, or Wave?

[dbfan]

Re: CUE Sheet Settings

Your choice

[thejamesjr]

Re: CUE Sheet Settings

What are the 3 differences though?

[Spoon]

Re: CUE Sheet Settings

If you are asking these questions, you really do not need to rip to cuesheet

Ripping to FLAC would be enough, if you must rip to cuesheet, select also FLAC in cuesheet.

[thejamesjr]

Re: CUE Sheet Settings

But if I burn an album (Wave format) to CD, than I would need the Cue Sheets to be encoding in Wave, correct?

[BrodyBoy]

Re: CUE Sheet Settings

FLAC is a lossless format, so if that need ever arises, you can easily convert the FLAC file to WAV for the CD.

You're essentially talking about archiving your music, right? WAV files are huge compared to FLAC, so your archive would take up an unnecessary amount of space if you saved it all in WAV.

Just saving a copy of your ripped FLAC files is a perfectly adequate and complete way to archive your music. There's really no need for the second rip and the CUE sheet and all that, but if you really want to back up your music that way, just save the FLAC files with a FLAC CUE sheet.

A CUE sheet, BTW, is just a text fie. Should you ever need to change it to use with a different audio format, it's a quick edit. You don't have to try and anticipate every potential way that you might ever use the file. Since you'll have a perfect, lossless copy of your music, you can always convert between lossless formats and or edit a CUE sheet should the need arise.

[thejamesjr]

Re: CUE Sheet Settings

Yes, I'm archiving my music to FLAC. I'll probably never have the need for a CUE Sheet, just figured I'd rip a copy just in case.

Thanks for the advice.