EAC & CUE sheets help!

I’m using EAC to archives my out of print CDs, for these I wish to have a CUE sheet so that any copy will be exact.

I’ve not previously bothered with a CUE sheet as I know sound wise it doesn’t make any difference.

Ive set EAC per http://blowfish.be/eac/Setup/setup3.html#no3g and double checked all setting are correct. In file naming I’ve used %N - %T and placed the sheet in the folder along with the tracks (FLAC) and the M3U file.

However when I attempt to load the CUE sheet in EAC I get a message like this each time, although the file and line number will be different.

Error in CUE sheet

File does not exist in line 4

The CUE sheet looks like this

REM GENRE Reggae
REM DISCID DA0A6610
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb4"
FILE "01 - Expo 67.wav" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:01
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "02 - You Don't Need Me.wav" WAVE
TRACK 02 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 03 AUDIO
INDEX 00 00:00:00
FILE "03 - I'll Get Along Without You.wav" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 04 AUDIO
INDEX 00 07:51:36
FILE "04 - Swing And Dine.wav" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 05 AUDIO
INDEX 00 04:48:00
FILE "05 - Come On Little Girl.wav" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 06 AUDIO
INDEX 00 01:39:37
FILE "06 - I'll Take You Where The Music's Playing.wav" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 07 AUDIO
INDEX 00 99:12:74
FILE "07 - Far Away Love.wav" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 08 AUDIO
INDEX 00 96:01:00
FILE "08 - Lonely Days (Take One).wav" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 09 AUDIO
INDEX 00 92:54:37
FILE "09 - You Have Caught Me.wav" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 10 AUDIO
INDEX 00 80:04:00
FILE "10 - What More Can I Say.wav" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00

I can’t work out what the problem is, can’t see why I’d need to edit the CUE as I’ve not set up a separate directory for CUE sheets.

Any help will be much appreciated, taking into account, I’m not technical with these issues

 

The problem is that the actual files are FLAC and the filenames in the cue-sheet are WAV.

FILE "01 - Expo 67.flac" WAVE etc. would work.

 

Yup.

 

Thanks produced the CUE sheet

REM GENRE Reggae
REM DISCID DA0A6610
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb4"
FILE "01 - Expo 67.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:01
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "02 - You Don't Need Me.flac" WAVE
TRACK 02 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 03 AUDIO
INDEX 00 00:00:00
FILE "03 - I'll Get Along Without You.flac" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 04 AUDIO
INDEX 00 07:51:36
FILE "04 - Swing And Dine.flac" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 05 AUDIO
INDEX 00 04:48:00
FILE "05 - Come On Little Girl.flac" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 06 AUDIO
INDEX 00 01:39:37
FILE "06 - I'll Take You Where The Music's Playing.flac" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 07 AUDIO
INDEX 00 99:12:74
FILE "07 - Far Away Love.flac" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 08 AUDIO
INDEX 00 96:01:00
FILE "08 - Lonely Days (Take One).flac" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 09 AUDIO
INDEX 00 92:54:37
FILE "09 - You Have Caught Me.flac" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 10 AUDIO
INDEX 00 80:04:00
FILE "10 - What More Can I Say.flac" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 11 AUDIO
INDEX 00 86:50:37
FILE "11 - It's All In The Family.flac" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 12 AUDIO
INDEX 00 84:49:37
FILE "12 - Little Nut Tree.flac" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 13 AUDIO
INDEX 00 82:10:36
FILE "13 - Hey Girl.flac" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 14 AUDIO
INDEX 00 79:42:00
FILE "14 - No, No, Lola (Take Two).flac" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 15 AUDIO
INDEX 00 77:16:37
FILE "15 - Love Is A Doggone Good Thing.flac" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 16 AUDIO
INDEX 00 74:18:37
FILE "16 - Daphne Walking.flac" WAVE
INDEX 01 00:00:00

But this message now

Error in CUE sheet

File type not supported in line 4.

All the files in the folder are FLAC, just double checked this.

Sorry if this is really stupid.

 

yes, this is the problem but don't know if EAC decompress the .flacs to wav and burn at the same time...even if EAC do that is not a big deal.

stephen@hennefer,
decompress the .flacs to wav first using eac3to, a.audition(for example) and burn the waves using the same .cue in EAC that you posted.

cheers!

 

Also to note, although this may not be "your" issue. Eac does not like punctuation. I had trouble with tracks like that have words like "Don't". Editing the file names and cue files to remove the apostrophe worked for me.

 

i never had this kind of problems Bass, even ripping some Russians classics.
no need changes in the names or ponctuations, the issue is the audio format.
EAC don't burn .flacs!

 

Thank you



Converting files to WAV, solved the problem.

 

you're very welcome!

 

Hi, what you tried in post #4 would have worked with burning software that supports flac. Most programs need an additional plug-in installed, that you have to locate, to do it.

 

Sorry for the confusion. I didn't remember that EAC doesn't burn from FLAC directly. Here's a little tool you may find useful:

http://www.legroom.net/software/autoflac

 

very interesting Herman.
'The installer will automatically install the application and optionally integrate with the Windows Explorer context menu.'

cheers!