OK - so I’d like to have tried to get “hcuesplitter” working…
But I found something else here :
Also - on Ubuntu - I’ve been pretty much exclusively using “pipx” to install python applets…
Had heaps of issues in the past, and whether to use python, python3, pip, pip3, python3 -m pip - blah blah blah… Why so many options its downright confusing for the casual dabbler…
But - was able to install several things successfully just using “pipx”
So - I was able to split that FLAC file with a cuesheet (seems you need to explicitly state the FLAC filename in the cuesheet - which I usually do anyway).
This text seems to have the full answer, so perhaps the Running section might clarify. If not, I understand it that nix-shell isn’t installed on most systems, so the script ending in “.bash” has a shebang that more people can use.
I haven’t heard the phrase “spit the dummy” so I’m not sure what you see sox doing, but the error you see was what my script fixed for me. I recognize that error as saying the file is WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE, which my copy of sox had no issue with. I was using sox: SoX v14.4.2
I thought that was more widely used - but seems to be a purely Australian colloquialism… basically means “got upset” - and by association “didn’t work”… “dummy” is in reference to what the Anglosphere calls a “pacifier” for babies… i.e. it’s a “dummy nipple”
I’m just recovering from Covid (2nd time around) - but I will mention - what happened when I tried “hcuesplitter.bash” - it created 6 FLAC files from the single big FLAC file - but - only one of them had any data - i.e. the other 5 were empty bytes - and the one file with data was the same size as the original FLAC file.
When I did it with the python script “ffcuesplitter” it behaved as expected…
In a few days - I will grab that big FLAC file and try again and post the results here… But the python one has resolved my issue with “unsupported format 0xfffe”…
