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As per the documentation, abcde can make a "Flac file with embedded cue sheet" for using as a source to create other formats later.

I've managed to create that, but am struggling to get it to determine the CD information when trying to reprocess it, it just says the disc information is unknown.

There is a -X option that seems related to this, as it talks about referencing a "cue2discid" program, but it fails both with the "builtin" option and giving the Python script in the examples.

Is there an example command line that will perform this reprocessing of the generated Flac which does correctly determine the CD information for the Flac?

I'm also a little confused about the definition of the cue sheet as "embedded" - I have separate ".flac" and ".flac.cue" files, which looks like it is a separate file. Have I generated the cue file wrongly, and if so is there a way to either process the pair of files as if it is an embedded cue file, or to recombine them? When I run with the Flac files it does determine that the CD has the right number of tracks, so it looks like it has some information of the original CD structure.

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Disclaimer: I was an abcde developer from 2015-2017: sed -n 6p /usr/bin/abcde

You will of course have to first install abcde, flac and mkcue as doubtless you have already done. Then the basic method to generate a single flac file and the required cue information is to run the following:

abcde -1 -o flac -a default,cue

Running this on Carol King's 'Tapestry' CD generates the following files on my system:

Tapestry.flac  Tapestry.flac.cue

Run the following command to observe the cue information that has been embedded in the flac file (in this example I am using my own filename details of course):

metaflac --list Tapestry.flac

To then generate a different format from this single flac file (which holds all tracks from the CD) a simplified command line to convert to mp3 would be:

abcde -o mp3 -d Tapestry.flac

This should be enough to generate a suitable tagged 'rip' in mp3 format taken directly from the single big flac file. The output files will be in single tracks and will also be appropriately tagged using eyeD3.

Works very nicely on my system and should also on yours...

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