How do I stop loaded files from being listed and treated as multiple files?

[atimholt]

I have 27 flac files carefully and painstakingly assembled from ~50 hours of audio that were originally split into ~3 minute tracks on CDs (this is an audiobook backup/conversion project). Now that I've got my long-term, well organized flac "masters", I want to convert to a more practical format (opus, incidentally). However, the moment I load my 27 tracks into the joblist, the old track metadata is pulled up, unwanted—re-splitting the entire project into its (several hundred) original files. The whole point of combining the files was to end up with combined files. How do I treat combined files as combined files?

(I tried searching for this topic, but I might very easily have just not come up with the right key words for a proper search.)

[enzo1982]

The original CD track boundaries appear to be included in the FLAC metadata as chapter marks.

You can configure fre:ac to ignore chapters when loading files:

• In the configuration dialog, open the Tags page.
• On the Tags page, change to the Other tab.
• Uncheck the Read chapters from files option there.

These instructions are for fre:ac 1.1.6. In recent continuous builds, the option was moved to the Metadata->Tag fields page of the configuration dialog.

[fairking]

the option was moved to the Metadata -> Tag fields -> Read chapters from files of the configuration dialog.

Thanks @enzo1982 . Question. If I Uncheck Read chapters from files would then the converted file contain chapters? Or they will be gone?
I would like to convert one single file which is an album, but to keep chapters. Would it work like that? I mean I have many such files.