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   Boosty Collins (ieure@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 04:29:21 JST Boosty Collins

   I have some FLAC files of The Hitchhiker's Guide radio series. These are ripped directly from my CDs, which have the episodes broken into multiple tracks.

   I want one FLAC per episode, *but* I also want the track splits to be chapter stops within that.

   Is there a tool out there that does this already, or do I get to write one?

   Concatenating *without* adding chapter stops / metadata is trivial, and I know how to do that already.

   (Answers/boosts appreciated)

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     Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 04:29:20 JST Annika Backstrom

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     @ieure ok I messed with this a bunch and I can only get VLC and ffprobe to detect chapter markers in FLAC when it's in a matroska container

     The same command did not generate working chapter markers when writing to a FLAC or OGG container

     i can share what i did if that's at all useful 🤷♀️

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     Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 04:45:22 JST Annika Backstrom

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     @ieure This is a little gnarly, but there's a command to create chapter markers (text file) from some input flac, then a couple commands to concatenate the files. I hope some part of it is useful! http://wiki.sixohthree.com/concatenating-flac-files-with-chapter-markers.html

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     Boosty Collins (ieure@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 04:45:23 JST Boosty Collins

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     • Annika Backstrom

     @annika Yes, sounds helpful!

     Based on what I was reading last night, it seems like the two options for FLAC-with-chapters is .flac file with embedded cue sheet, or FLAC stream in m4b container. The latter seems more promising.