How to split album into different flac and tag them under Gentoo Linux
Install CLI tools
# mac to support ape
sudo USE="alac flac mac shorten sox wavpack" emerge media-sound/shntool
sudo emerge cuetools
Download script
See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=58766 for the source of bash script.
Here is the full content of the bash script:
#!/bin/bash
# split image file (flac, ape, wav, etc.) according to cue-file
if [ -f "$1" ]; then
i=0
for cuefile in *.cue; do
i=$(($i + 1))
done
if [ $i -eq 1 ]; then
# precies 1 cuesheet gevonden
if grep -q "INDEX 01 00:00:00" *.cue ; then
nice shntool split -t "%n %t" -f *.cue "$1"
else
echo "The first track has a pre-gap. Shntool will cut that off and put it in a seperate file."
echo "You don't want that. Please modify the cuesheet from:"
grep -m1 "INDEX 00" *.cue
grep -m1 "INDEX 01" *.cue
echo "to:"
echo " INDEX 01 00:00:00"
exit 1
fi
elif [ $i -eq 0 ]; then
echo "No cuesheet found in the current directory."
exit 1
elif [ $i -gt 1 ]; then
echo "$i cuesheets found in the current directory. Please remove the superfluous cuesheets."
exit 1
fi
else
echo "Split image file (flac, ape, wav, etc.) according to cue-file."
echo "Output files are in FLAC."
echo "Usage: `basename $0` <image-file>"
exit 1
fi
echo
album=`grep -m 1 TITLE *.cue | cut -d\" -f2`
artist=`grep -m 1 PERFORMER *.cue | cut -d\" -f2`
for file in [0-9]*.wav; do
echo "Encoding $file"
if [[ ${file:0:1} == 0 ]] ; then
tracknr=${file:1:1}
else
tracknr=${file:0:2}
fi
title=`echo ${file:2} | sed -e "s/.wav$//"`
nice flac -s -T "artist=$artist" -T "album=$album" -T "title=$title" \
-T "tracknumber=$tracknr" "$file" && rm "$file"
done
Put the script somewhere and name it to cue2flac
Start conversion
# convert the ape to corresponding wav file, for example, "a.ape" is converted to "a.ape.wav"
find . -name '*.ape'|xargs -I {} ffmpeg -i {} {}.wav
# split wav and convert it to flac, make sure the *.cue exists in current directory
cue2flac a.ape.wav
# do the cleaning (OPTIONAL)
rm *.ape *.wav