how to show song titles of in CUE file

Posted by: KC14 on 05 January 2013

Have ripped entire CD into one single FLAC/ WAV file with song titles in a separate CUE file. How can I see the song titles on iPad/ iPhone?

Posted on: 05 January 2013 by Bart
Originally Posted by KC14:

Have ripped entire CD into one single FLAC/ WAV file with song titles in a separate CUE file. How can I see the song titles on iPad/ iPhone?

Absent additional software, your iOS devices' version of iTunes won't play flac files.  In any event, the one big file format is going to be a problem.  I would split it up into separate files for each track.  I would also use a format that supports tags in a much more iOS friendly way, such as Apple Lossless (or mp3 or aac if you can live with lossy files).

Posted on: 06 January 2013 by Simon-in-Suffolk

KC14, interesting you are using cue tags in a WAV file to index the media, usually this is the  domain of the pros for music production and AV editing, alas I don't think much consumer music replay software recognises them, and Apple is probably worst than most in its support of WAVcapabilities, being limited to just the header and data chunk IME. As Bart says if Apple is your poison best use a more Apple centric file format such as AIF or Apple lossless.

Posted on: 06 January 2013 by Guido Fawkes

it is easy on a Mac .. XLD will process your cue file and create ALACs or AIFF or AACs from your FLAC for each song with the details in your cue embedded as Tags ... I have XLD as the default for opening cue files on my Mac; like most things Apple, it just works.   

 

The latest version of PM for iTunes 11 will transcode DSD to PCM in real time for the Naim DAC and I can also apply a room correction plug-in ... perfect sound forever is just around the corner. 

 

Posted on: 12 January 2013 by KC14
Originally Posted by Guido Fawkes:

it is easy on a Mac .. XLD will process your cue file and create ALACs or AIFF or AACs from your FLAC for each song with the details in your cue embedded as Tags ... I have XLD as the default for opening cue files on my Mac; like most things Apple, it just works.   

 

The latest version of PM for iTunes 11 will transcode DSD to PCM in real time for the Naim DAC and I can also apply a room correction plug-in ... perfect sound forever is just around the corner. 

 

Thanks Guido (and also Bart & Simon)! In fact, it's not my intention to have one huge file for the entire CD. It's because I have too many that spliting into individual tracks will mean thousands of files to manage. I'm using Windows 7 so I guess this create some things that seem most of you do not come across with Mac. I'm using foobar3000 on Windows 7 and it works perfectly with CUE file. Anyway, will try to look for XLD if there is one available in the Windows world. BTW, I need support of Chinese (traditional & simplified characters), Japanese and English file names, tags (and hopefully lyrics). Am I expecting too much? That's the reality in this part of the world called Asia..... Thanks again and Happy Day!