Command line

The same splitter in a terminal, with the same review keys and saved cuts. Recording is in the app only.

Download

• macOS: Apple Silicon or Intel (Apple menu → About This Mac shows which chip you have)
• Linux: x86-64 or Arm64. Needs glibc 2.34 or newer (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12 or later) and libasound2.
• Windows: x86-64. Unzip and run groovecutter.exe from a terminal.

Install on macOS

tar xzf groovecutter-macos-apple-silicon.tar.gz
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine groovecutter   # unsigned; once
sudo mv groovecutter /usr/local/bin/          # optional
groovecutter --help

"Cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified" means the xattr step was skipped. Right-click → Open also works.

Use

1. Set the Discogs token (the first run asks for it):

   groovecutter config set discogs-token <token>

2. Split. Point it at the release, or let it search:

   groovecutter split --release 4570366 side-*.wav
   groovecutter split --search "Daft Punk - Random Access Memories" side-*.wav
   groovecutter split --barcode "8 88837-16861 8" side-*.wav
   groovecutter split side-*.wav   # guesses from the names

3. The review opens in the terminal, with the same keys as the app.

   

4. Tagged files land next to the recordings, or in --out.

No review, FLAC, normalized to -1 dBFS:

groovecutter split --auto --normalize --release 4570366 --out ~/Music side-*.wav

Just look at a release first:

groovecutter identify --release 4570366