role and uses of cue sheets

i am about to (re) rip my entire cd collection onto my mac in aiff format and either aac or apple lossless and i have stumbled across cue sheets

i believe they hold info re gaps between songs as well as other stuff

am i right in thinking that these are invaluable if i want to create a cd in the future from my aiff files (particularly) when there are, say, no gaps between songs - such as in a live album?

as far as i know when playing an album, such as a live album, through itunes artificial gaps between tracks (that are not on the original cd) will not occur.

am i right in how i understand cue sheets?

do i need them for properly creating cds (ie if mine gets damaged or lost)?

does anything happen if i import them into itunes with the rest of the album?

what are the benefits, pitfalls, uses of these things

any knowledge and guidance would be great ly appreciated (before the re ripping process occurs)

cheers

peter t

iMac

Posted on Aug 1, 2013 6:08 AM

16 replies

Crows2012 Author

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Aug 3, 2013 2:28 PM in response to ed2345

I'll sus out media monkey.

I read songbird is going to be wrapped/no longer supported as of last month

I found a list of players that had trials and seemed rather inexpensive by googling best players for mac yesterday. I'm also reading up further on embedding tags within wav files as like you said a lot of people think wav and tags don't work however that might not be always the case depending on players used.

I've bookmarked a few pages too that discuss how or where to embed tags but I'll have to go back and read further

I have no major issue with aiff, or really even alac or aac but if I can rip to wav and know that on the future these can be moved with no tag headaches well that's a bonus.

Worse cones to worse i can always stick with aiff, rip to aiff and wav and I REALLY need to or even have wav files but keep a file structure myself. That last option is doable but then I'm missing out on player displays/setups/attractiveness.

No real major drama either way

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