Topic: Need something to generate cue sheets from MP3's

[ethan]

So here's what I'm doing. I put a tape in and it transfers at home onto my linux box. Since I only have 27 KBPS upstream I convert it to a mono 22 khz 24bit mp3 (saving 100x the space) and then transfer it to work where I'd like to track it and save a cue sheet so when i get home I can split the tracks. The problem is CDWave only does WAV's. Anyone know of anything else that will me to track and create a cue sheet using MP3?

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[MattD]

Why not convert the mp3 back to WAV and use that in CD Wave? After all, this is only for the purpose of generating a cue sheet (and a very good idea at that +T).

[ethan]

True I could do that but it seems a big waist to take an 8 MB file and covert it to an 800 MB file just to track.

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[MattD]

Good call ... if you're handy with making cue sheets, you can make your own and just listen to the mp3 in a player and note the spots where you want to drop tracks. I don't know of software that lets you generate cue sheets from an mp3. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

[ethan]

oh yeah that's a great idea. I could easily write a perl script with a GUI that just has a stopwatch running. and writes to a text file. It would however be difficult to handle pausing since I am at work and do have to actually work while I'm doing this.

Hmm...interesting wonder how hard it would be to mod some of the open source MP3 streaming utilities to have some kind of tracking interface.

-e