Help please. How to split a long 5.1 wav with cue sheet into separate tracks?

Simon A said:

Hi everyone,

I have a few albums which have been converted as one long 5.1 wav file which uses a cue sheet. When I import it into Audacity, it gives me two tracks with white noise.

What am I doing wrong? I'm not experienced in this so any help is appreciated.

Thank you!

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rtbluray said:

Is it a DTSWAV file? If so, that would explain the white noise as the file would need to be decoded by a DTS decoder. Audacity probably thinks it's a standard LPCM stereo file, hence the white noise.

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ubertrout said:

Be sure the CUE file correctly references the WAV file, drag the CUE file into foobar. It should recognize the tracks. Then have it convert to individual WAV files. Be sure the DTS plugin for foobar is not installed, otherwise it will output the files as (giant) multichannel WAV files.

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ubertrout said:

Did you open the CUE file in a text editor (like notepad) and confirm it refers to the proper filename and location for the WAV file? And then is the location you specified in a location on your hard drive?

Man this computer audiophile stuff is geeky.

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JanBakker said:

you need it to convert dts.wav files.

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LuvMyQuad said:

I have done what you are trying to do many times.

I use cuetools to split the single dts .wav into separate tracks. To do that you will need a valid cue sheet. This will produce separate dts.wav files. You can stop there if you like and play them back as dts files through a proper decoder.

OR...

You can then load the separate tracks into Foobar 2000 and convert them to flac. Foobar will recognize that they are dts and perform the conversion.

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LuvMyQuad said:

I have done what you are trying to do many times.

I use cuetools to split the single dts .wav into separate tracks. To do that you will need a valid cue sheet. This will produce separate dts.wav files. You can stop there if you like and play them back as dts files through a proper decoder.

OR...

You can then load the separate tracks into Foobar 2000 and convert them to flac. Foobar will recognize that they are dts and perform the conversion.

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JanBakker said:

That's also an option but Foobar can do it in one go, to wav or flac. I also did that many times .

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Simon A said:

So far I've tries with both programs and I still get error messages. I guess there's something I'm not yet doing correctly. Talk about a learning curve.

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LuvMyQuad said:

What error are you getting from cuetools?

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