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Does Rockbox support '.cue' files for mp3's?
keytotime:
Gap's, and it make's building a tag database faster.
Llorean:
Um, there are no gaps in properly encoded LAME MP3s, and I believe wavpack is natively gapless. (If it's not, consider FLAC.) So really, the "gaps" thing isn't an argument.
As for the Tag Database, yeah there's only one file open operation instead of several, but seeking has to occur *in* the file to start at various points, which actually probably means more effort during playback.
I don't say that it won't be a good feature to have. I'm basically asking, why should it treat the different tracks as individual songs, complicating the loading because of the seek, rather than just treating them as seekpoints when you play the individual file? If you want to shuffle them, or play them out of order, why *not* make them individual files?
rykos:
If a cue sheet was accessible within rockbox as some sort of scrollable list, then could it be possible to use the list to select whatever point within the mp3 file you wished to play from?
keytotime:
I guess it's a matter of taste, I prefer having a cdimage over individual files. Also I is easier to fix up bad tag's because since it's a cd image you can get the tag's fromfreedb. Sometimes when you compress the files you get a better ratio. Burning to Cd is easier also.
rykos:
Where did you come up with all that! lol
Burning to cd is much easier using the ripped image and the accompanying cue file! Nero does ALL the work for you and puts all the track marks in place for you. Also, it means that you have a gapless wav cd when you've finished.
As for burning a data cd - by burning as one long file it means that you achieve gapless playback on any mp3 decoding hifi because it is all still ONE track.
As for tagging - the cue file would contain all the tags. You don't even need to embed the trackname information into each of the files - you can just copy and paste track info it to the text body of the cue file. What could be easier than that?!
I'm sorry, call this personal taste, but I just cannot understand why you would prefer having individual files!!! lol ::)
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