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Swap audio tracks in a CUE+BIN image


Lck

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Hello everyone,

today I received the "gold" master of the album my band has been recording during the last months. Unfortunately, the producer messed up and swapped the order of the two last tracks. Now... before sending the disc for duplication, I'd like to somehow swap the two tracks back in the right order but I am not sure about how to proceed.

 

I ripped the whole disc as a CUE+BIN image. The original CUE is:

FILE "Final Mix.bin" BINARY
 TRACK 01 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
 TRACK 02 AUDIO
INDEX 01 03:07:03
 TRACK 03 AUDIO
INDEX 01 05:51:49
 TRACK 04 AUDIO
INDEX 01 10:01:71
 TRACK 05 AUDIO
INDEX 01 14:13:06
 TRACK 06 AUDIO
INDEX 01 19:58:59

 

Simply swapping track 5 and 6 doesn't work, since the indexes would not be incremental anymore in that case. I found an alternative way to make it "acceptable" to ImgBurn:

FILE "Final Mix.bin" BINARY
 TRACK 01 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
 TRACK 02 AUDIO
INDEX 01 03:07:03
 TRACK 03 AUDIO
INDEX 01 05:51:49
 TRACK 04 AUDIO
INDEX 01 10:01:71

FILE "Final Mix.bin" BINARY
 TRACK 05 AUDIO
INDEX 01 19:58:59

FILE "Final Mix.bin" BINARY
 TRACK 06 AUDIO
INDEX 01 14:13:06

But this isn't correct either because the CUE syntax misses a command to specify a track's length: therefore track 04 will actually include track 4-5-6 in a single track, track 05 will be correct, and track 06 will again merge track 5 and 6.

 

A possible solution I tought out would be to rip all tracks as a separate binary file and then merge them with a hand made CUE file, listing all separate files in their correct order. Something like this:

FILE "Final Mix 01.bin" BINARY
 TRACK 01 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "Final Mix 02.bin" BINARY
 TRACK 01 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "Final Mix 03.bin" BINARY
 TRACK 01 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
...

 

Is this possible somehow? How do I selectively rip a single track from an audio CD using ImgBurn?

 

Thanks a lot! :)

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