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Old 2008-11-12, 05:15 PM
landesm landesm is offline
 
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splitting files

Hi,
it's been a while.
I just downloaded a cd as a single ape file. I notice this kind of thing is
offered fairly often. I've been told the file can be split up using foobar.
Here is where I am:

I downloaded foobar.
In foobar, I opened the .cue file for the corresponding ape file.
The indexing for the individual tracks appeared in the Foobar window.
I then selected the whole lot and right clicked.
A menu appeared with the option "convert" at the bottom.
I selected "convert"
and sure enough I was asked what new format I wanted to change the
files to and where to store them. I presume the new version will be in the form of the subfiles/tracks as listed. But I only presume because I
haven'te done yet.
That is because when I opted to convert to .flac, a flag came up
advising me that although I was converting from a lossy format to a
lossless format, the quality wouldn't improve, the files would merely
take up more space. .......But the original master file for the cd
was ape, which I understand to be lossless. Is this flag merely a
glitch in present version of Foobar, or am I missing something?
thanks for allways being THE place to go when I'm confused.
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