Originally Posted by
GBrown
I also use the rip as 1 method for these split and hidden tracks, Using Audacity to identify and create the split points. But it does lose the Accurate rip info at that point.
As long as you split the segments accurately and keep all of them it's trivial to generate a CUE sheet to ensure the album still verifies (I don't think PerfectTunes uses CUE sheets but CUETools does and uses them by default if they exist).
Using the example in the first post, I'd split track 11 into the component parts using sox:
Code:
sox 01.11.flac 01.11.%2n.flac trim =00:00:00.00 =00:03:01.00 : newfile : trim =00:00:00.00 =00:03:34.00 : newfile : trim =00:00:00.00
then create a CUE sheet to bring them all together for verification.
For the first 10 tracks you'd use:
Code:
FILE "01.01.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "01.02.flac" WAVE
TRACK 02 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "01.03.flac" WAVE
TRACK 03 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "01.04.flac" WAVE
TRACK 04 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "01.05.flac" WAVE
TRACK 05 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "01.06.flac" WAVE
TRACK 06 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "01.07.flac" WAVE
TRACK 07 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "01.08.flac" WAVE
TRACK 08 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "01.09.flac" WAVE
TRACK 09 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "01.10.flac" WAVE
TRACK 10 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
And for the 11th track that's now split into 3, instead of:
Code:
FILE "01.11.flac" WAVE
TRACK 11 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
You'd use:
Code:
FILE "01.11.01.flac" WAVE
TRACK 11 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "01.11.02.flac" WAVE
INDEX 02 00:00:00
FILE "01.11.03.flac" WAVE
INDEX 03 00:00:00
If I'm splitting to avoid silence I name the silent track with a .silent.flac suffix so that I can exclude it from being indexed by other tools e.g. foobar, MinimServer e.t.c.