This tutorial will guide you through the steps required to split a single large .flac file into multiple tracks/songs.
- If you’ve downloaded an album in .flac format, and it’s one big file, you can split it into multiple tracks (songs) via the .cue file that should be included in the download. There are a number of reasons for wanting to do this, the most common is to create individual MP3s of each track, rather than one long MP3 of the entire album. Once you’re done splitting the .flac file, you can use this tutorial to convert them to MP3s.
- To get started, download and install Medieval Cue Splitter. The installation is very straight forward – you’ll click “Next” a few times and then you’re done. Launch it by double-clicking its Desktop icon, or from its entry in your Start menu.
If .cue files are already associated with a program on your PC, you’ll be prompted with a message asking if you’d like to associate all .cue files with Medieval Cue Splitter. Click Yes or No based on your needs.
- And now Medieval Cue Splitter will launch.
- From the top navigation window, select File and then Open CUE file… from the drop-down list.
- Navigate to your .cue file, select it, and click the Open button.
- Medieval Cue Splitter will populate all the fields with the appropriate information. When you’re ready to split the large .flac file into individual tracks, click the Split button in the bottom right corner of the window.
- When prompted for a location to save the .flac files, select the location of your choice. I opted to save them in the same folder as the original large flac and its .cue file. Click OK
- And now Medieval Cue Splitter will do its thing. The time it takes to split the file depends on the speed of your PC, but generally it’s a fast process. The green ’status indicator’ in the bottom right corner of the window will display the progress.
- Once completed, a small pop-up window will appear. Click OK.
- And now you’ll have each track on the album as an individual .flac file. The original .flac file will remain as well – it’s not deleted.
Great. Very Informative. I’ll try this one. Thanks for sharing.
really great tools that did great job to split big flac(s), thank you very much for sharing.
lossless the best!
Medieval Cue Splitter sux.
no CRC, incorrect track lengths, stay away with lossless files.
kislosh -
I’ve only had great experiences with Medieval Cue Splitter. It has worked perfectly for me each and every time, perfect track lengths and absolutely no instability or issues in general. Can you suggest an alternative (free or open source) tool for Windows that does the same thing?
try decoding medieval’s output
by incorrect track lengths i meant output not a multiple of 588 samples (i.e. causes sector boundary errors)
new .cue it makes is a joke, open it in text editor
Alternatives:
EAC has a image splitting tool, but only works with wavs and therefore loses tags.
Foobar2000 splits with converter, but doesn’t make new .cue.
CUETools splits, converts, makes new .cue, compares with AccurateRip database and fixes offsets.
Medieval splitter worked perfect for me.
I had a CD box set with all discs ripped into the one flac file.
I downloaded medieval splitter, installed and it done what this website said it would do.
Fast as hell – ripped a full CD and spilt it under less than a minute!
Very useful tool.
Thanks.
why should i bother??
n00bs are n00bs, let ‘em destroy their music.
Wrong (missing) advice about gaps.
They should be added an inverted (appended to previous track).
kislosh, there’s no need to get so upset over it. Nobody’s “destroying” anything. It’s really not a big deal if a few frames are placed at the beginning of one file instead of the end of the previous. Anybody who claims to be able to hear the difference is blowing hot air. Play 3 frames of any audio sample in your favorite DAW, it’s nothing more than an audible click. You need a much larger sample to make any sense out of it. And anyway, what you should be complaining about is .wma files. if you compare a .wav rip and a lossless .wma rip of the same song, you’ll notice the .wma is ~16 frames longer, making it a much more serious offender.
gracias exelente aporte!!!
pero en el punto 6 es a la IZQUIERDA y NO a la derecha jajaja
de todas formas gracias
3 samples you won’t hear, not even an audible click. But you will notice 585 (588 – 3) samples of digital silence put there by the burner to fill up a sector on a CD, specially if the album
iswas gapless.And there is also an issue of lossless archival, for which Medieval is not appropriate software (as is wmal, which nobody uses anyway).
“why should i bother??
n00bs are n00bs, let ‘em destroy their music.”
You said it man
CUEtools works beautifully, thank you kislosh
thx alot thank u so much ur simply superb !!!! woohoo !!! it works wondefully and simply magic !!!!!