How to split a single FLAC file into separate tracks

This guide will cover how to split a large single .flac file into multiple tracks using CUETools.

Make sure you have the following ready before starting:

• A lossless image file (FLAC, Wave, APE, WavePack, etc…)
• The corresponding .cue file
• The CUETools program – Download free from HERE

Load up CUETools and then click the “Settings” icon which is a small cog in the top right corner.

In the settings menu click on the “Tagging” tab and then disable the following:

• Extract log file
• Copy album art tags
• Embed Folder.jpg

The settings should like the like screenshot below.

Now in the main window click on the down arrow next to “Output” and select “Use template“.

In the template field enter the following:

[%directoryname%\]Re-Encode\%filename%.cue

This will put the newly created split files and the new cue sheet into a subfolder called “Re-Encode“

You can change the name of the subfolder to whatever you like.

Next it is time to select the file to split into separate tracks.

1. Click on “Input” and browse to the .cue file.
2. For the “Action” click on “Encode“.
3. For the “Mode” click on “Tracks“
4. For “Audio Output” click on “Lossless” and pick “flac” in the top box and “libFLAC” underneath.
5. Use the slider and set the compression to “8”
6. Click on “Go” to start.

Below shows the window setup ready to start.

After clicking “Go” CUETools will start to split the file into separate files. The progress can be seen at the bottom of the window as shown below.

The new files will be saved in the folder that was specified above. In this example a subfolder named “Re-Encode”.

Make sure to copy the original .log file to the new folder with the split tracks for safe keeping.