cue file that seems not working right

[Josef K.]

I've this flac file with an entire album inside
the procedure I'd use is
1. convert file->open the flac file that contain x songs
2. open file->open the embedded cue file to get the list of all x songs
3. select all songs
4. start conversion
5. got x mp3
but sometimes I can't find in embedded cue file information about single songs (seems like there's no information in the cue file), so I cannot split album songs
what should I do in such case?

[krmathis]

Re-rip from the CD directly to separate files.

[sbooth]

Have you verified using the metaflac command line tool that the file contains an embedded cue sheet?

[Josef K.]

is this metaflac a tool inside max? how does it work (I'm on macosx) ?