.cue interpreter for .ape files

[Shapeshifter]

First of all, I think Subsonic is a great project and it works nicely as soon as you set it up properly. I am very pleased I found this incredible program.

However, I think a .cue interpreter for .ape files should be added. I'll briefly explain for people who are not familiar with lossless audio.

APE is a method to compress an audio source (i.e. a CD) to .ape files.
What's so special here is that these .ape files do not lose any quality, but are however compressed. This is called lossless encoding, as opposed to lossy encoding (such as mp3). There are two general methods to do this:

1. The audio source is converted to individual .ape files, where each .ape file is a single track which you can play in you favourite music player (I use Foobar).
2. The audio source is converted to one big .ape file in which all tracks are contained. To listen to individual tracks a .cue file with track timing information is generated. Your favourite music player (again, Foobar) can read this .cue file and load the single big .ape file. However, in the playlist you get seperated tracks, because Foobar reads the .cue file, so it knows when a specific track starts and when it ends.

Subsonic however sees a big .ape file as a single track and since you can't wind through a transcoded track, you are forced to listen to the entire CD.

My request here is a routine that reads the .cue file and displays seperate tracks in the "Playing" screen, so that you can select individual tracks instead of just one big .ape file.

If something is unclear about what I mean, please reply and I will explain more clearly.

[eradumvelhinho]

This is also a "problem" with me. I have many .cue files.
Also the program does not recognize .apl files.

[cooperdude]

I agree on the cue files, but not just for APE, mp3 too. I have quite a few collections that it would be helpful.

[the_slain_man]

Any news on this?

[Zygorator]

Would love to get this fixed, or hear some news about this.

About half of my music collection is in single .flac or .ape files with external cue sheets holding the individual song info. Any of those albums are just shown as a single song with the length of the entire album.
If Subsonic would read .cue files like any other media player i'd be incredibly happy.

[sparkcom]

I would love that as well.

for now I have to break down the cd image into mp3 files on server. There is a batch script here:

http://gimpel.gi.funpic.de/wiki/index.p ... g_on_Linux

I don't think you can just use the transcode feature to work out the cue sheet. the cd image needs to be split into individual files so that you can play each track and can skip the playing

Ben
http://www.sparkcomputing.co.uk

[tahu]

+1

[horsesam]

+1 here too

If developer needs samples, I can give him permission to access my server or send some samples to him.

[HJk]

would be nice to see this feature implemented. Converting 1TB of CUE+TTA to split files is tough you know.

[stratosrv]

+1 Here
Nice Idea.

[hopo]

+1
... and for FLACs

[wikke]

+1
... and for FLACs

+1

Sent from my Nexus 4

[Noel Hibbard]

+1

I have lots of DJ sets that could benefit from CUE files. Another thing that bugs me about Subsonic is that the album art comes from the first track in a folder. So if you have a folder full of mixes and each file has it's own album art, they all get the art from the first file.

[hopo]

Still like to have this basic function for APE and FLAC images.