Good question. A big part of the .cue thing was that I started that way maybe five years ago. At the time either flac wasn't a 'thing' or I just didn't know about it. I was into mixed cd's then and gapless playback was critical.
Once in the habit, I kept ripping that way. Since, I have reinforced my thought process and still like the method for my purposes. I still have a lot of gapless music (and yes I know flac supports this) but also I keep and stream .wav files which have inferior tagging capabilities. My backup files are flacs and also a lot of my primary music. I do have a lot of separate, individual files but about 600 albums are cue/wav. A few friends with very nice systems swear they can hear the difference between wav and flac files, one even says he can hear a decompressed flac (now wav) file versus a pristine one that's never been compressed. I haven't done any careful evaluations on either count and don't have an opinion on either scenario but I do like the idea of having a copy that's 'just what's on the disc'. I also like knowing th I wouldn't re-rip my collection for the unlikely benefit, but since it's there I don't want to give it up either. I like knowing the waveform is precisely what's on the disc as far as track gaps and also EAC's offset corrections are way less important with one big file instead of individual tracks. Aside from occasional software concerns (SB Server) there really isn't a downside either. EAC and Foobar treat .cue tracks just as they would individual files. -- miklorsmith ------------------------------------------------------------------------ miklorsmith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4349 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68618 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
