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State of linux media players for single FLAC + cuesheet support

Just to ask the informed hydrogenaudio / linux fans, if there is any promising player (new project, or new plugin development for established players) with good cuesheet support to play single-file flacs + cue.

I've migrated to linux years ago and my whole 600 cd colection is in single file flac+cue.

These days I'm using Audacious 1.5.1 but I had to de-activate the cuesheet plugin as it is broken in the 64-bit question.

For the last year or so, I just playback the whole flacs without getting any track information. Not too cool but works - although I'd like something better, it's about time. Even when it worked, audacious cuesheet plugin didn't do its job well (it had problems with track length), and opening a folder with audacious that contained flac+cue added the image in the playlist twice.

On top of that audacious development seems to be dead for the most part.

I know Amarok has some flac+cuesheet support but I don't like amarok. I don't like windows applications either (ie foobar under wine).

I was wondering if folks know about some new initiative or development to help linux-based audiophiles to playback their collections the right way...

State of linux media players for single FLAC + cuesheet support

Reply #2 –
I have compiled audacious svn 1.9.0 (audacious2).
And it works with flac+cue well.

State of linux media players for single FLAC + cuesheet support

Reply #3 –
Quote from: SuperBo on
I have compiled audacious svn 1.9.0 (audacious2).
And it works with flac+cue well.


This sounds very interesting. In the audacious project page I haven't seen any updates since about a year ago. Also no references to development news or about audacious2 SVN branch. Can you post the link to audacious2 page if there is such? if it doesnt exist, would you mind posting a mini howto on audacious2 svn compilation - that would be nice

I thought that the project went dead.

Can it handle cuesheets well now? Is the cuesheet-originated track length right now? (this was a long standing problem with audacious 1.x)

State of linux media players for single FLAC + cuesheet support

Reply #4 –
Quote from: jcoalson on
you might try http://audioplayer51.org/


thanks for the pointer. It is not trivial to get this thing to work though. It seems ubuntu 8.10 repos do not have the requried libraries (audiere, mutagen, and some of the python ones). Still trying to figure out a workaround. also audioplayer51 doesn't seem to have any support or active development... but if it can get the job done...

State of linux media players for single FLAC + cuesheet support

Reply #5 –
Quote from: katraska on
This sounds very interesting. In the audacious project page I haven't seen any updates since about a year ago. Also no references to development news or about audacious2 SVN branch. Can you post the link to audacious2 page if there is such? if it doesnt exist, would you mind posting a mini howto on audacious2 svn compilation - that would be nice

You can try this tut
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=425558

State of linux media players for single FLAC + cuesheet support

Reply #6 –
You can also try QMMP:

http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/index_en.php

If compiled from SVN it can play FLAC+CUE, even with cuesheet embedded. It can even play APE+CUE using FFMPEG and certainly the more popular lossy formats. I've been using it for some time and it looks very promising. The development is ongoing.

State of linux media players for single FLAC + cuesheet support

Reply #7 –
foobar2000 works flawless via wine for me

State of linux media players for single FLAC + cuesheet support

Reply #8 –
Quote from: SuperBo on
I have compiled audacious svn 1.9.0 (audacious2).
And it works with flac+cue well.


SuperBo: after some fiddling I got audacious2 to build and run. It can indeed handle cuesheets much better than before, problem is: when I open a folder containing cue+single-file-flac  with audacious2, the playlist includes the tracks and also the single-file flac. Is there any workaround for this?

State of linux media players for single FLAC + cuesheet support

Reply #9 –
Quote from: TheReg on
You can also try QMMP:

http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/index_en.php

If compiled from SVN it can play FLAC+CUE, even with cuesheet embedded. It can even play APE+CUE using FFMPEG and certainly the more popular lossy formats. I've been using it for some time and it looks very promising. The development is ongoing.



Promising indeed. A few outstanding issues when playing single-file-per-album flacs + external cuesheets, but surely will be fixed soon. Not usable for my collection due to this, yet.

The dev provides ubuntu deb packages, not easy to find, they are here:

http://code.google.com/p/qmmp/issues/detail?id=53&can=1

State of linux media players for single FLAC + cuesheet support

Reply #10 –
i use xmms (1) plus xmms-flac and xmms-cue


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