[Voyage-linux] question on cue support in MPD

[Joseph Chu]

Hello Jeff,
thanks your sharing.
i tried different mpd client software and apps, then i found the gmpc in
ubuntu. i can add the cue file into play queue from database. it also
cannot display the track info before i add cue file in to queue. once in
the queue, it can display the track information correctly and i can select
which track to play.
in that sense, i think the mpd has no problem to play individual track
according to the cue file but clients (i am using mpod in iphone) just
didn't have the user interface to show the individual track and send to mpd
play queue.
i really don't understand why they don't do that....
Joseph


On 6 November 2013 03:22, Jeff Mai <jmai at iinet.net.au> wrote:

>  Hi Joseph,
>
> I ran into this problem in 2008 or 2009.  Soon after cue sheet support was
> added for a while, but then it was broken in an update of mpd around 2011.
> I asked around on some of the forums, but I don't think the developers
> agreed with the way it was implemented and didn't intend to fix it.
>
> I needed some of the new updates to mpd to support new playback hardware.
>
> In the end I used the Windows program CueTools to split all of my flac
> files into separate tracks.  It names and tags them according to the cue
> sheet too.  It handled everything as a batch once it was set up so it was
> less work than I thought, but it took an entire weekend.
>
> Probably not what you want to hear - I didn't in 2011, but after I split
> my files I haven't looked back.  mpd handles gapless playback perfectly
> with the split files in my set up and that was my main concern.
>
> Cheers
> Jeff
>
>
> On 06/11/13 01:37, Joseph Chu wrote:
>
>   Hello,
>
>  i am new to use mpd. i was told mpd cannot handle a single flac file with
> a cue file and i have to split the flac file into separated flac files
> according to the cue file.  but i don't believe it.
>
>  so i read around internet, mpd should be able to handle cue file
> (right?), and i saw in voyage mpd version information it has cue plugin.
>
> what is this cue plugin can do? i tried to put a single flac file and cue
> file in a directory but in my mpdclient i cannot play the individual track
> in that flac file. it just treats it as 1 track :(
>
>  i would like to know why and how can i make mpd to read the cue file.
>
>  thanks!
>
>  Joseph
>
>
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