Originally Posted by
garym
1. yes. I have many (live cds, dark side of the mood, abbey road, etc.). All play perfectly gapless (ripped as individual tracks) in computer players such as Foobar2000, winamp, and many others. I really think you're barking up the wrong tree with your interest in CUE SHEETs. This approach (and use of WAV) was useful maybe 10 or 15 years ago when we had crappy mp3 codecs, players that couldn't do gapless, etc. But that's all ancient history now.
2. I don't rip using CUE SHEETs so I have no idea about any of this. I've ripped over 5,000 CDs to FLAC and never had the need to use CUE sheets. (and why would you want to use WAV. A FLAC file is lossless, just like a WAV, but takes up less space. And more importantly, FLAC files use standard tagging that most (all?) players read. Not so with WAV. And FLAC files contain selfchecking CRC within the files (WAV do not). So it is trivial to check the integrity of all your FLAC files after, say, copying them to a new HDD. Not so with WAV files. (and don't fall for some of the nonsense on the internet that WAV "sounds" different than FLAC. Unless you have a really old system (decades) and or a broken player, this is certainly not true.
3. Yes, the individual FLAC files could be burned to a CD (which is PCM I think rather than WAV), but in any case, yes, a burned CD from FLAC files would be gapless. (Of course after ripping my CDs I have *never* felt the need to use them again other than as digital files. I use foobar2000 as my windows computer player. I use Squeezebox network music players (and logitech media server) for serving the FLaC files to my main stereo at home and other home locations (bedrooms, kitchen, etc.), and in the car I have simply play via my iphone (bluetooth or a cable). For my portables, I do use an mp3 mirror of my FLAC files, which I easily created with a few mouse clicks using dbpa file converter.
You seem to be moving in the direction of DLNA/upnp network music player. Some are OK in terms of how they work (gapless, etc.) and some are terrible. Not clear that they all would handle cue sheets even if you wanted those. Depends on the control and the renderer and the player.Illustrate has ASSET which people seem to like. I prefer my squeezeboxes and logitech media server as they are much more advanced in the handling of music, tagging, etc. as a player over DLNA players. But many are happy with DLNA, particulary those that use Illustrate's ASSET it seems. But this is all irrelevant for now because no matter what you use as a playback system, you'll want securely ripped FLAC files with good metadata (tagging) and artwork. and dbpa can do that for you.