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Title: Enhancement Request: FLAC + Embedded Artwork and CUESHEET export
Post by: whitenoise on March 31, 2021, 05:44:40 PM
First off - what a wonderful find this kit is. Priceless, and fast. Correction algorithms are astoundingly efficient (I've used tools by Magix and others over the years, nothing compares).

Now, onto my question: I use a vinyl-to-digital flow that I don't believe is directly covered in VinylStudio - the final format of my encoding efforts is FLAC, with embedded artwork/album details and CUESHEET, as my playback environment supports such an image, and it's the best way of preserving an album for eventual re-splitting (tools like AIMP's converter do it in a flash).

It would be great to be able to export such a combination in one operation; I currently export the cuesheet and save a copy of the corrected recording to an external FLAC file and combine all through AIMP's Tag Editor.

Thanks,
jeff
Title: Re: Enhancement Request: FLAC + Embedded Artwork and CUESHEET export
Post by: Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) on March 31, 2021, 09:35:02 PM
Hi,

Yes, there's no way of doing that in a single operation.  Why do you need to save separate files for each track AND a CUE sheet?  The CUE sheet holds track breaks (and names) for the recording as a whole.
Title: Re: Enhancement Request: FLAC + Embedded Artwork and CUESHEET export
Post by: whitenoise on April 01, 2021, 04:54:59 PM
Thank you for answering, Paul.

I think I've been a little unclear - indeed, the target is a single FLAC + CUESHEET playable archive of the entire vinyl record.

In some cases (DJ singles), software playback kits (such as Traktor DJ, which I use) don't handle FLAC archives, so the I use the FLAC file for safekeeping/storage and split the file using the cuesheet to gain individual FLAC tracks than can be played.

So my real question was - could exporting the resulting VinylStudio project into FLAC + cuesheet be eventually possible?
Title: Re: Enhancement Request: FLAC + Embedded Artwork and CUESHEET export
Post by: Paul Sanders (AlpineSoft) on April 01, 2021, 08:49:57 PM
Hi,

If you record to FLAC then no export is needed - just generate the CUE sheet.  VinylStudio can do this for several albums at a time in the Batch window.