How to split flac files by cue and convert to alac on Mac OS X
1. Install required packages
$ brew install cuetools flac ffmpeg shntool
*2. Split flac file by cue *
$ shnsplit -o flac -f file.cue file.flac
3. Download cuetag.sh from https://github.com/gumayunov/split-cue/blob/master/cuetag and fill meta-info for the resulting flac files
$ cuetag file.cue split-track*.flac
4. Convert flac files to alac
$ for i in *.flac; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -acodec alac "`basename "$i" .flac`.m4a"; done;
Written by Кирилл Сумороков
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I use iDealshare VideoGo to split flac files by cue and convert to alac on Mac OS X
Step by step guide at http://www.idealshare.net/audio-converter/cue-splitter-for-mac-windows.html
It also helps to split WAV, APE, MP3, AIFF, M4A, and etc.
over 1 year ago
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This is a great tuto on how to convert flac to m4a files. @muchbetterbig, why the hell do you need a program? Just change the file extension and ffmpeg will take care.
over 1 year ago
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