Splitting .ape / .cue files

[cniall]

I've got around 6 .ape files with accompanying .cue files that I would like to split into individual tracks -- how would I do this? It wouldn't be a problem to do it manually (since I already know the precise times at which it changes from one track to another) but I don't have any idea as to what program I might use for the editing.

[Jaglover]

I did it long time ago, all I remember I had to install cuetools and shntool.

[cniall]

If it helps, I'm really not too bothered about the conservation of tags, metadata and the like; all I need to do is split the file up. Might Audacity be able to break the .ape file into several smaller (.flac, .mp3 or .ogg, ideally) files?

[cniall]

For the record, I solved this by first converting the .ape files to .flac and then splitting the .flac files according to the .cue file with 'cuebreakpoints cuefile.cue | shnsplit audio.flac'. Tags and metadata weren't conserved, but the metadata was wrong anyway -- now I just need to find a way of modifying the metadata of music files in bulk.

[Martux]

now I just need to find a way of modifying the metadata of music files in bulk.

Check out easytag for that.

[keenblade]

Read the Split ape with cue.
Use the cueape.sh script on that page. I did it successfully with it. It even writes the tags into the splitted mp3 files.
Firstly emerge mac mp3splt and lame or oggenc.
For id3tag-v2, I just needed to add '-2' to the cueape.sh script:
It was:

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out="$(mp3splt -f -c "$(basename "$2")" -o "@n+-+@t" "$tm.mp3")"

I changed it like:

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out="$(mp3splt -f -c "$(basename "$2")" -o "@n+-+@t" -2 "$tm.mp3")"

Then you can split into mp3 with like this:

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cueape.sh CDImage.ape CDImage.cue -m