GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 534644
lossless audio - cue sheet support and on the fly conversion/splitting to mp3 on drag&drop to ipod
Last modified: 2018-05-24 13:22:06 UTC
Most of my collection is in lossless format (ape/cue, flac/cue, wv/cue), sometimes single-file lossless, sometimes the lossless content is split into tracks. I'd like to use rhythmbox to: a) handle my lossless collection. rythmbox would need to understand how to read the .cues, extract and index the track information, and omit the referenced .ape/.flac/.wv etc. Somewhat closely related if the above is implemented: b) be able to drag and drop tracks contained in my media library in .cues to my ipod. this would require on-the-fly lossless to mp3 conversion/splitting when necessary
*** Bug 441642 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Yes, I extremely need this feature.
Some additional information on cue sheets: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Cue_sheet There should be added support for media/cue as two files, but support for embedded cue sheets in FLAC files is also useful. Support for a cue sheet compatible player is a feature requested by many Linux users because it reduces the need for foobar2000 running through Wine.
I, too, would greatly benefit from this feature. I currently use RubyRipper to rip my cd's to single file flac image files with cue sheets. I then must use K3B to split and transcode these images to other formats for playback, as well as to write the files back to cd (to recreate the original). A gnome solution would be much better for me. I think the best place for this to be directed would be the gstreamer team. If gstreamer was made cue sheet aware, we should be able to use soundconverter to split and encode like was mentioned above, players like Rhythmbox would be able to playback, and CD writing/authoring/burning applications like Brasero and GnomeBaker would then be able write these image/cue sheet files to cd's (thus recreating the original cd). This seems to me to be the most logical fix. Regardless of where the work goes though, I would really like to see this capability implemented.
I just filed "Bug 572049 – GStreamer should be made cue sheet aware" over at GStreamer's bugzilla (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572049). Perhaps this should continue there?
The original CDRWin documentation does not include support for file types that are not compatible with the file type mentioned in the .cue file. In adition, cdrdao does not implement the best bin/cue implementation on the planet. Recent cdrecord versions implement much better .cue support. BTW: If you find a verification that this kind of usage is officially supported by cdrwin, I am willing to implement support in cdrecord.
*** Bug 588278 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Waiting for this feature, 'cause it's very needed. Most of my collection is flacs with cuesheet...
Has this feature been implemented into a plugin? I am still looking for a simple solution to play my flac files that have cue track definitions with Rhythmbox and I don't want to convert all my flac files to separate tracks...
I also need cue sheet support. MP3 does not support gapeless playback so I encoded many of my albums as one MP3-file. It is free of sense to split them with Mp3splt or re-encode them to a new format. With this feature there is not only direct access to a certain track but there will be also real scrobbling with the last.fm plugin. I would like to drag and drop (import) the cue-file into Rhythmbox and it would treat the cue-informations like many files I would import: Rhythmbox imports the tracks into the database and the current playlist. Internally it would skip within the referenced audio file to the right position (and stop and play other file or other position like it has been set in the playlist). On cue-points it would switch the name of played track... This feature was in the old Amarok since 1.3 but i don't like using KDE software with GNOME and Rhythmbox became my favourite. Rockbox on my Sansa portable player has also cue sheet support. Thank you all for Rhythmbox. I know there might be better things in the to-do-list but this feature would be awesome. I guess for me this is the right moment to learn how to write some code ;-)
if we can centralize this discussion maybe developers would see us. there is a conversation on launchpad bug 608537.
and why status is UNCONFIRMED?? what confirmation does it need?
Hi, Can I/we hope to support the cue sheet (.cue file) in Rhythmbox? I like Rhythmbox, but this is very restrictive. I think, it is bug. :) Thanks Best regards JJ
(In reply to comment #12) > and why status is UNCONFIRMED?? what confirmation does it need? UNCONFIRMED is the default status when a new bug is opened. In most projects (including rhythmbox), this status is as good as a NEW status on a bug, don't worry about it.
The above-mentioned Gstreamer bug (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572049) was closed as a duplicate of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540890 -- the latter is RESOLVED FIXED for 0.10.37. What's the next step to getting this into Rhythmbox, now?
At some point, someone who knows things about cue sheets and has some idea of how they should work in rhythmbox will have to write some code.
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