

To convert a large FLAC file intro multiple FLAC files (songs), the same as above, navigate using the terminal to the folder where the FLAC file is located and run this in the terminal:Ĭuebreakpoints *.cue | shnsplit -o flac *.flac Īs you can see, the output file format is specified via the "-o" option. flac files), use the terminal to navigate to the folder where the APE file is located and type this in the terminal:Ĭuebreakpoints *.cue | shnsplit -o flac *.ape Splitting the APE and FLAC filesNow, to split an APE file into multiple FLAC files (without the need to type the name of the. Conveniently, cuebreakpoints (part of cuetools) prints the break-points from a cue or toc file in a format that can be used by shnsplit. Shnsplit requires a list of break-points with which to split an audio file. This isn't in any repositories, but you can download a deb file from here.ī) For FLAC and WAV you need to install "flac" and "wavpack", so paste this in a terminal: You need "cuebreakpoints" (part of "cuetools") and "shnsplit" (which is part of the "shntool"), so open a terminal and paste this:Ī) For APE files, you need to install the "Mac" package. What you need to split APE and FLAC files by Cue file1. But you can split the files into multiple songs exactly like in the cue file (each song's start and end time are saved in the cue file, so we'll know where to cut the big file). Did you ever downloaded a single APE or FLAC file consisting of multiple songs? If so, it's quite annoying to try and listen to only one song.
