Flac samples calculation

Question

I have a cuesheet from EAC and a FLAC file with the full album in. Im trying to make a little python script to play the file, there for i need to be able to set the position where to start in the flac file.

How do i get from the CueSheet format MM:SS:FF to samples?

Answer 1

Each minute contains 60 seconds (obviously); each second contains 75 frames; and each frame contains 588 samples.

So the calculation would be something like this...

offset = ((((minutes * 60) + seconds) * 75) + frames) * 588