So, for me, a combination of CueRipper (to rip the CD image) and Audacity (to edit the pregap track from the CD image) the seems to be the way to go. CueTools (V2.1.4), however, crashed when asked to create separate tracks from the Cue file & WAV. The Cue sheet shows track 1 as Please Forgive Me, starting at 00:00 and ending at 02:01. I tried ripping the CD in Image mode but EAC hung with a ‘Detecting pre-gap tracks’ message.ĬueRipper (V2.1.4) did produce a WAV image of the whole CD, including the pregap track, and a Cue sheet.
#Cue splitter include pregap audio install#
My install of EAC (V1.0 Beta 3) shows the start time of the first track at 02:01 but doesn’t rip the pre-gap track. Not at all, but the hard part is getting the pre-gap track to rip in the first place!īecause I am very dull, I have tried it with my copy of David Gray’s ‘White Ladder’, which features 2 minute 1 second long pregap track ‘Through to Myself’. Minor upgrades are apparently free once it’s registered (and paid for) but presumably major version upgrades require further payments. FLAC files use a different size of frame than CDs do, so they cannot be split without re-encoding, at least without running into other issues such as incorrect resulting lengths or corrupted destination files.
#Cue splitter include pregap audio full version#
The free version is quite severely limited compared to the full version and apart from this one ability there appears to be nothing here that isn’t in EAC. Not yet sure whether I want to pay £30 for the software. Less seriously, by default the tags for ripped hidden tracks have “(ability to rip depends on CD drive)” appended to the track title, which to my mind is a bit sloppy. The “Path” file requester for where the ripped files go does not recognise anything else on my network. I suspect this is deliberate, because each installation is limited to just a single computer and the Family version they sell for up to 5 computers costs £20 more. Most seriously, it doesn’t recognise the existence of the network drive that I store all my music on, so I have to rip to the Windows default “Music” folder and then move the created album folders to where I want them afterwards. Artwork is automatically located and added in good resolution but this too is not that crucial to me. A bit quicker to rip to FLAC than EAC is but that is of no particular importance to me. The drive in my Toshiba laptop can do it, so that’s good.
Just installed and tried out the 21-day evaluation version of DBPoweramp (An Apple version is available) and it does indeed see pre-tracks and make them available (subject to the drive you’re using being able to read them).
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