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Does Rockbox support '.cue' files for mp3's?
esper256:
--- Quote from: saratoga on July 06, 2006, 08:32:36 PM ---Did you read this thread? This has been rehashed many, many times. People aren't explaining work around for CUE MP3 support for no reason. They're doing it because is simply not possible to implement CUE support for VBR MP3 files. Its great that you have a number of semi-valid reasons for wanting CUE, but unless one of them can get around the fact that CUE is not designed for use inside compressed files, they're not going to make a difference.
If you want something like CUE for MP3, I'm afraid you'll probably have to look into implementing MP4 or MKA support for MP3 files. Those containers actually support the seektables required to implement something like this in MP3. Good luck.
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Yes I read the thread. Did you read my post? Given that I said VBR support isn't important to the people who most likely want Cue/MP3 support I'm guessing you didn't.
You can call my reasons "semi-valid" and I will call your argument simply the absence of my musical tastes. If you had, then you would want cue/mp3 too. So maybe the workaround for us is to start listening to more top40 on rockbox.
Thank you for your enlightening reply.
saratoga:
--- Quote from: esper256 on July 07, 2006, 01:24:06 PM ---
--- Quote from: saratoga on July 06, 2006, 08:32:36 PM ---Did you read this thread? This has been rehashed many, many times. People aren't explaining work around for CUE MP3 support for no reason. They're doing it because is simply not possible to implement CUE support for VBR MP3 files. Its great that you have a number of semi-valid reasons for wanting CUE, but unless one of them can get around the fact that CUE is not designed for use inside compressed files, they're not going to make a difference.
If you want something like CUE for MP3, I'm afraid you'll probably have to look into implementing MP4 or MKA support for MP3 files. Those containers actually support the seektables required to implement something like this in MP3. Good luck.
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Yes I read the thread. Did you read my post? Given that I said VBR support isn't important to the people who most likely want Cue/MP3 support I'm guessing you didn't.
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It probably won't work at all for VBR files. I can't imagine theres much interest in a solution that won't work for the overwhelming majority of files. Yes, it could work for CBR, but given that it won't work most of the time, a better solution is needed IMO.
--- Quote ---You can call my reasons "semi-valid" and I will call your argument simply the absence of my musical tastes.
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Tastes have nothing to do with this. Everything you wanted can be accomplished already in Rockbox presently, though it might take some effort to set things up. Furthermore, the present situation will work for VBR files. Which is why I called your points "semi-valid".
--- Quote ---If you had, then you would want cue/mp3 too. So maybe the workaround for us is to start listening to more top40 on rockbox.
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I don't know what this means.
ted_b:
First post. I registered because I want to regoster this issue.
I have 780 FLAC files representing 780 cd's (so far). Each has been ripped with EAC and each has a related cue sheet file. I did this to easily archive and manage (rather than 10,000 files, assuming 12 songs per album), and because popular programs like Foobar2k handle flac and cue sheets out of the box. It's painless, convenient (there's that word again) and oh.....what a lot of people who have large collections do (780 represents a portion of my library, and I'm a smalltime collector).
I can't become a Rockbox user unless:
a) I listen to albums in their entirety without the ability to distinguish tracks, read track titles, and skip along based on track numbers, etc.
2) rerip 780 FLAC files into 10,000 new individual flac song files, all the while deleting the album files (unless I have an addtl few hundred gig laying around).
Seems unlikely. So I vote for cue sheet support, too. Thx
Ted
Llorean:
Don't *vote* for it. Either do it, or don't complain about lack of it.
Rockbox is not a democracy. It's a bunch of stuff that got done by people who decided they wanted it enough to actually DO it.
So, which is more inconvenient for you? Reripping your songs, or learning to program in C and writing CUE support for us? If the reripping is more inconvenient, we'd certainly welcome an effective method of CUE support.
ted_b:
your not serious, really? I assumed this was a forum for questions, help, field-initiated ideas....... and feature requests. My first post here and I'm told
"either program in C or shut up." Wow.
Bye
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