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Technically - doable.
As someone who's never had a vinyl - this would be my angle of attack:
title+remainderffmpeg could deal with cutting the file
cUrl can hit the APIs
some shell script (bash would be my choice) would tie it all together
Splitting a recording into separate tracks - Audacity Manual Super easy to do. Back in the Cool Edit days I digitized hundreds of LPs by hand, it is a bit of a chore.
That's what I'm doing atm.
MusicBrainz won't help, because every rip will have enough variance to thwart digital identification. Also, the song lengths will be off because your beginning and end times will differ from CD rips, and this will compound until you're significantly off course by the end. I'll be happy if someone posts a better method, but I'm still using Audacity and setting manual track labels.
@honk I suspect that may be pushing the bounds of what may be currently doable with Audacity unless you explore the realms of plugins or create your own, possibly worth reaching out to the developers of audacity over at GitHub? (Certainly not a "quick" thing to develop unless someone happens to be working on this already)
Only other thing I can think of may be to explore other software options such as Vinyl studio or Pure vinyl. Probably not free and whether actually worth it is debatable.
Only other option I can think of is to ask a third party (or parties) to do the work on your behalf - again likely not cheap unless you have some really good friends 😁
Of course the purists might argue that you are moving away from the sense of the original recording (one long track) but I can wholly appropriate why you want to do it. I do feel your pain though, just sorry I don't have any easier answers 😕
I recommend using the free program called CD Wave.
@honk Haven't tried myself but maybe scope to use a "label" track and export multiple? manual.audacityteam.org/man/ex…
You may have some degree of success in auto labelling depending on the audio and threshold levels bytefreaks.net/applications/au…
Labeling the parts of the song and then exporting multiple is how I currently do it.
The auto labelling actually somewhat works. The error rate is relatively high though. Set the threshold too low and the background noise of the record will make it detect nothing. Setting it too high and even small quieter parts get detected. It's far from being "automated" but it actually helps a bit. Thank you.
what would be the best method of getting cue files though. Because just creating them myself by hand would be just as tedious as just splitting the files myself.