how to burn music to CD using .cue and .flac files

Question

I want to archive my cd collection using Rubyripper, but I am unable to burn the music back to disc using the .cue files Rubyripper generates. The previous post on SE - here - dodges the ability to recreate an accurate copy of the original disc. I have tried using K3b, but it does not recognize the .cue files as valid. I have tried Brasero, but it creates a disc filled with white noise, and I have tried cdrdao, and it also creates a disc with white noise. Does anyone know how to burn a .cue sheet associated with .flac files for each cd track back to disc? Is there an alternative besides using EAC on Wine?

Solution 1

Have you looked into the cdrecord command line utilitity?

It has a cuefile parameter for CDRWIN compliant CUE sheets. You will have to convert the FLAC file(s) back to WAV (and fix the file naming inside the cue sheet).

Solution 2

To burn a folder containing .flac files for individual tracks and a .cue sheet with info for the space between tracks, I used Soundconverter to convert the .flac files to .wav. I then changed all instances of ".flac" in the .cue file with ".wav." Brasero was then able to read the .cue file and burn the image to cd audio.

Comments

[d1bro]

perhaps add some commands how it really is done, so a driveby noob might find help too

[eric s]

I installed those packages, but now I get this error: Unable to handle the following files due to an unsupported format: You may manually convert these audio files to wave using another application supporting the audio format and then add the wave files to the K3b project. album.cue So perhaps I need to introduce an additional step to convert the flac to WAVE.

[kyodake]

@eric s: post edited.

[eric s]

Asunder is for ripping only. My problem is burning related.

[eric s]

Thanks for pointing to Soundconverter. I want to use .flac, not .ape, so I used Soundcoverter to change the .flac to .wav and replace ".flac" with ".wav" in the .cue file. K3b still would not recognize the .cue file, but Brasero was able to burn from the .cue file.