[henkypenky]

Thanks. This CUE sheet solution will work for me. I’ll give it a try.

It turned out that in Kodi 18 .cue files are only considered when mka file does not contain chapter info. This was different in Kodi 17 where both were considered whereby the cue file had precedence. Opened another issue for this incident: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/16359 

CUE files work in 18 for me as I always split my files into individual songs/chapters. Easier to create playlists and choose random tracks from my iPad app. 

I guess you do with your own tool, just spotted it. This is what I was looking for a long time! Will check it out later this week. When splitting, can I keep original audio codec? What about gapless play of splitted files? I would assume it will no more play gapless unless you convert to Flac?