CUE sheets for Live Here Now CD's

[TheBang]

If you're as annoyed as I am by the tracking on the live CD's then you might appreciate this. Here are instructions on how to re-track the shows into something logical, with the huge caveat that these instructions are for Macs, since I don't have Windows. If someone would like to write instructions for Windows, that would be great. I would guess that it would utilize something like EAC and foobar2k or CUE Splitter or something like that.


Setup
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1. Download and decompress X Lossless Decoder. You're looking for the GUI version in the Download section, probably named something like "xld-gui-2007917.tar.bz2"

2. Launch XLD and go to the "XLD" menu and choose "Preferences"

3. Select your Output format. This will be the final format of the music after you're done resplitting it. If you want a lossy format, choose MPEG-4 AAC or LAME MP3, and then click the Options button to choose your bitrate. If you want a lossless format, choose Apple Lossless or FLAC. If you want to burn it back to an audio CD, choose WAV.

4. Close the Preferences and quit XLD.

5. Download and decompress Max

6. Launch Max, and go to the "Max" menu and choose "Preferences"

7. Click the "Formats" tab.

8. Select WAVE from the "Available output formats" section and then click the + mark

9. Choose "Linear PCM, 16 bit little endian signed integer" and click OK.

10. Make sure there is a checkmark next to "WAVE (Linear PCM)" in the "Configured output formats"

11. Click on the "Ripper" tab.

12. Check the box for "Rip to a single file". If you are really paranoid about your CD ripping quality, you can change the Ripper from "Basic Ripper" to either "Comparison Ripper" or "cdparanoia".

13. Close the Preferences and quit Max.


Re-tracking instructions
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1. Launch Max

2. Insert your CD. A window for the CD should automatically pop-up in Max. Click "Select All" and then click the "Encode" button.

3. After it's done ripping and then encoding, you can quit Max. You'll need to find the WAV file on your hard drive. The file should be called "00 Multiple Tracks.wav" It's probably in the Music folder inside your Home directory, probably inside a folder called "Underworld" or "Unknown Artist".

4. Launch TextEdit.

5. In a new document, go to the "Format" menu and choose "Make Plain Text"

6. Copy a CUE sheet from below and paste it into the document.

7. Go to the "File" menu and choose "Save As..." Name the file "somefilename.cue" and save it. TextEdit will ask you to confirm that you want to use the .cue file extension.

8. Launch XLD.

9. Go to the "File" menu and choose "Open". Open up the CUE file you just saved.

10. If it asks you to "Choose file to split", navigate to the WAV file you created earlier and choose that.

11. You should now see a list of the tracks. Click "Decode" to split the tracks and encode them in the audio format you set up earlier.

12. You can now find your newly split tracks in the same folder as your WAV file. If you split them into WAVs in order to burn them back to an audio CD, make sure you set the pre-gap for each track to 0 seconds in your audio CD burning application.