Calum I've ripped most of my CDs to file-per-CD, and don't have any problems with it. I must admit that I didn't research it properly beforehand (unlike yourself!), but I felt that a single file with a CUE sheet was the easiest way to reproduce the original CD should I ever need to. I've done that a couple of times and can confirm that it works exactly as I'd hoped. Of course, that's not to say that the file-per-track approach wouldn't work just as well.
My other consideration at the time was that ANY other system can be generated from this most basic of schemes - eg, should I want to split the CD files into individual track files, it is a simple task. Again, that's not to say that generating a CD file from track files wouldn't be just as simple, but I've never attempted that. One fairly big advantage of the file-per-CD approach is that ALL my tagging information is in the CUE files, which are plain text and easily edited. If you are editing a large number of large files (even individual track FLACs can get quite big) over a network, then editing tag information embedded in those files can take time, simply because the files have to be rewritten. I use Foobar to edit my CUE files, and it handles them very well - when I open a CUE file it shows all the tracks exactly as if I'd opened a list of individual files. Changing the tag information 'en masse' simply involves writing a short ASCII text file back to disc. OK, so you might not expect to edit your tags very often, but I've just been through the process of tidying all my tags and it was made relatively painless by opening all my CUE files simultaneously in Foobar. In the end, I'm not sure there's much to choose between the two approaches. It seems possible that having SC open a big CD file just to get to an individual track might introduce a delay, but it's not caused me a problem. In all other respects SC handles my big files and CUE sheets flawlessly. Hope this helps. -- chill ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60945 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
