Splitting WAVs into MP3

[Clive]

I have a load of WAV and CUE files which work fine on Foobar. I also have them as FLACs. The WAVs, CUEs and FLACs are all one file per album, not per track.

I want to convert the WAVs or FLACs to MP3 for the media player on my phone. I have no problem converting whole albums into single MP3 files, the only issue of course is that I can't the pick or skip individual tracks.

I've tried a few ways to split and convert these single image files into one file per track - and retain them as albums. So far I've not found a simple way to do this. I can split the WAV files in Foobar and have a CUE file, then I need to convert to MP3 but I loose the CUE files so the tracks are not arranged as an album.

If you've followed me this far I hope you have some advice for me! Ideally splitting and converting to MP3 in one operation.....

Cheers!

[keiths]

http://www.cuetools.net/wiki/CUETools_Download

[Clive]

http://www.cuetools.net/wiki/CUETools_Download

I've had a play with Cue Tools, how can I automatically arrange the resulting MP3s into albums?

[keiths]

Clive, what does the music player on the phone use to determine which album tracks are part of - directory structure or meta-data?

[Clive]

Clive, what does the music player on the phone use to determine which album tracks are part of - directory structure or meta-data?

It's a Blackberry, I really don't know what it expects......I'll have to research it. Probably meta-data.

I also have a Sony MP3/ATRAC player so I suppose I'm after a universal solution but I don't expect one exists.

[keiths]

Have you checked using MP3Tag or whatever that the Album name etc is the same in the meta-data of all the split tracks?

[Clive]

Have you checked using MP3Tag or whatever that the Album name etc is the same in the meta-data of all the split tracks?

I'll try to gather up the energy........I almost always listen to albums anyway, without a simple solution I may just stick with single files. But I will research it when bored in hotels!

Thanks.

[keiths]

Looks like it may well be a meta-data issue:

http://www.blackberryforums.com/gene...e-problem.html

[Clive]

Thanks Keith for looking, I have used mp3tag and will investigate further but the work involved sounds like a lot of work for 500 CDs.

[Stratmangler]

Use Foobar to split the files using the cue sheets - if the cue sheets have the track titles then it will embed the titles etc as metadata.
If your cue sheets just say track 1, track 2 etc. then you're buggered

If you want to convert to MP3 then you might have to instal the LAME plugin to Foobar.

If you're unsure whether or not the track titles are embedded in the cue sheet you can use wordpad to read it.