cuemaker v1.0 - Readme 0. License GPL version 2.0 or later 1. The Why Well, both Nero and EAC (Exact Audio Copy) are complete arses when it comes to supporting cue files. I mean, come on, EAC could generate cue data in a LOGICAL Nero compatible way, and Nero could be a lot more forgiving about the order of data in each section. Ego idiots! So, to take over the pain of having to enter all the CD-Text information, when it's already present in the audio filenames, I created cuemaker. It is also super-convenient when you want to create your own compilations. 2. The How Well, let's say you have the following files in your directory (And yes, I DO own an original copy of that CD!): -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 01 - Amber Waves.flac Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 02 - A Sorta Fairytale.flac Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 03 - Wednesday.flac Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 04 - Strange.flac Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 05 - Carbon.flac Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 06 - Crazy.flac Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 07 - Wampum Prayer.flac Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 08 - Don't Make Me Come To Vegas.flac Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 09 - Sweet Sangria.flac Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 10 - Your Cloud.flac Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 11 - Pancake.flac Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 12 - I Can't See New York.flac Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 13 - Mrs. Jesus.flac Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 14 - Taxi Ride.flac Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 15 - Another Girl's Paradise.flac Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 16 - Scarlet's Walk.flac Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 17 - Virginia.flac Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 18 - Gold Dust.flac -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Then, after you copied over cuemaker to that directory, you would use: cuemaker "%P - %S %A - %N - %T" > mycue.cue And lo and behold, you have generatd the perfect CUE Sheet: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REM COMMENT "Generated by CueMaker v1.0" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" TITLE "Scarlet's Walk" FILE "Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 01 - Amber Waves.wav" WAVE TRACK 01 AUDIO TITLE "Amber Waves" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" PREGAP 00:02:00 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 02 - A Sorta Fairytale.wav" WAVE TRACK 02 AUDIO TITLE "A Sorta Fairytale" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 03 - Wednesday.wav" WAVE TRACK 03 AUDIO TITLE "Wednesday" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 04 - Strange.wav" WAVE TRACK 04 AUDIO TITLE "Strange" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 05 - Carbon.wav" WAVE TRACK 05 AUDIO TITLE "Carbon" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 06 - Crazy.wav" WAVE TRACK 06 AUDIO TITLE "Crazy" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 07 - Wampum Prayer.wav" WAVE TRACK 07 AUDIO TITLE "Wampum Prayer" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 08 - Don't Make Me Come To Vegas.wav" WAVE TRACK 08 AUDIO TITLE "Don't Make Me Come To Vegas" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 09 - Sweet Sangria.wav" WAVE TRACK 09 AUDIO TITLE "Sweet Sangria" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 10 - Your Cloud.wav" WAVE TRACK 10 AUDIO TITLE "Your Cloud" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 11 - Pancake.wav" WAVE TRACK 11 AUDIO TITLE "Pancake" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 12 - I Can't See New York.wav" WAVE TRACK 12 AUDIO TITLE "I Can't See New York" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 13 - Mrs. Jesus.wav" WAVE TRACK 13 AUDIO TITLE "Mrs. Jesus" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 14 - Taxi Ride.wav" WAVE TRACK 14 AUDIO TITLE "Taxi Ride" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 15 - Another Girl's Paradise.wav" WAVE TRACK 15 AUDIO TITLE "Another Girl's Paradise" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 16 - Scarlet's Walk.wav" WAVE TRACK 16 AUDIO TITLE "Scarlet's Walk" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 17 - Virginia.wav" WAVE TRACK 17 AUDIO TITLE "Virginia" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "Tori Amos - Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk - 18 - Gold Dust.wav" WAVE TRACK 18 AUDIO TITLE "Gold Dust" PERFORMER "Tori Amos" INDEX 01 00:00:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All you have to do then is decompress the FLAC files to WAV and feed the cue to your favorite CD buring program. 3. Additional comments: - Remember: PANTS! ([P]erformer, [A]lbum title, track [N]umber, track [T]itle or [S]uppress) - "Redirection: it's more powerful than you!" Why would I waste my time asking for an output filename, when you can simply redirect? By the way, anything that's non cue data goes to stderr, and will NOT be redirected. - Option -g will add a 2 seconds pregap on all tracks. And no, I have no plans to add an option to modify the pregap time for OBVIOUS reasons. And before you ask, there is ALWAYS a 2 seconds pregap before the first track. It's the specs, and if it's not in the cue sheet, most CD burning apps will add it anyway, so I will darn well add it by default! - Automatic track numbers will be generated if none are present in the filenames - The performer given with -p overrides the Album Performer but NOT the Track Performer(s), again for obvious reasons. If you really want to override Track Performers, just suppress it with option %S - Additional matching pattern options %d (repetition of digits) and %w (repetition of word characters, i.e [a-zA-Z0-9_]) can be used to SUPPRESS data All other patterns resolve to Perl's '(.*)' - Supported extensions are flac, ape, wav, mp3 - This is a VC++ Executable compressed with UPX. 4. Dependencies and thanks: - PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (http://www.pcre.org/) You need the pcre library to recompile. This was compiled with the static version (provided)