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[kitten]

Does not work properly in MC19, only the first and last files are played. ?

For example, let's say I have a CUE file representing an album with 16 songs. Double click the CUE file (associated with MC19) then MC19 opens and plays, the playlist shows 16 songs but the first song is shown (and plays!) 15 times, followed by the last song. An album with 10 songs will play the first song 9 times, and then the last song, etc.

There is nothing wrong with my CUE files and it works perfectly in MC17.

(The CUE files are generated using Recursive Cue Creator.)

The reason I want to access a CUE file in this way is I shell call it from VBA to play a file from my CUE directory at random (i.e. play a random album), since there seems to be no way to play a full album randomly within MC.

 

[kitten]

Below is an example. MC17 plays all the files in the correct order. MC19 plays "One Of These Days" five times, then "Echoes" once.



REM GENRE Albums
PERFORMER "Pink Floyd"
TITLE "1971 - Meddle"
FILE "M:\Music\Albums\Pink Floyd\1971 - Meddle\01 One of These Days.wav" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "01 One of These Days.wav"
    PERFORMER "Pink Floyd"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "M:\Music\Albums\Pink Floyd\1971 - Meddle\02 A Pillow of Winds.wav" WAVE
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "02 A Pillow of Winds.wav"
    PERFORMER "Pink Floyd"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "M:\Music\Albums\Pink Floyd\1971 - Meddle\03 Fearless.wav" WAVE
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "03 Fearless.wav"
    PERFORMER "Pink Floyd"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "M:\Music\Albums\Pink Floyd\1971 - Meddle\04 San Tropez.wav" WAVE
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "04 San Tropez.wav"
    PERFORMER "Pink Floyd"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "M:\Music\Albums\Pink Floyd\1971 - Meddle\05 Seamus.wav" WAVE
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "05 Seamus.wav"
    PERFORMER "Pink Floyd"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "M:\Music\Albums\Pink Floyd\1971 - Meddle\06 Echoes.wav" WAVE
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "06 Echoes.wav"
    PERFORMER "Pink Floyd"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

[bv1pacb]

Kitten,

All of the indexes in your example denote the same start time; I think MC is confused.  According to this artice, http://tinyurl.com/2qsbac, "INDEX 01 is required and denotes the start of the track".

[kitten]

Thanks for helping troubleshoot bv1pacb. I think the index time here is the starting position within each file (each track on the album being a separate file), i.e. each track begins at the beginning -- this syntax has worked for me for years using CPlay and more recently MC17?

Also MC19 is able to identify and play correctly the final track on any album, which like all the other tracks also shows 00:00:00 for INDEX 01?
 

[bv1pacb]

Ah, I see; I guess I can't help then.

I've always used a cue file to identify the start and name of each track within one large wave file, not with individual files.  Using JRiver finally convinced to join the herd and rip CD tracks to individual files with embedded metadata (tags).  No cue files necessary in that case.

[kitten]

I'm with you there bv1pacb. My only use for CUE files nowadays is to play an album at random. I have a shortcut on my taskbar that I hit to play 'any album' as I like to be surprised

Assuming no one can explain why the above CUE file (launched from Windows Explorer) plays with MC17 but does not play with MC19 then I'm concluding it's a bug in MC19.

[JimH]

I'm guessing that this is the problem.  You could read about the CUE standard to see whether the time should be zero.

All of the indexes in your example denote the same start time; I think MC is confused.  According to this artice, http://tinyurl.com/2qsbac, "INDEX 01 is required and denotes the start of the track".

[kstuart]

See:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=85172

[kitten]

Thank you for posting this link. It appears there is no solution so I might need to revert to using MC17.

[6233638]

there seems to be no way to play a full album randomly within MC

You can do this with a smartlist.
 
If you create a new Smartlist and select Import/Export, the following code will play a random album every time:
 

Code: ( Random Album ) [Select]

[Media Type]=[Audio] [Media Sub Type]=[Music] [Complete Album]=1 ~n=1 ~a
If you want more than one album in the playlist, increase ~n=#

[kitten]

6233638:

Thank you!

[kitten]

Okay so I created a Smartlist called "1 Random Album" and imported this:

[Media Type]=[Audio] [Complete Album]=1 ~n=1 ~a

(slightly different from the above since I don't have Media Sub Types)



It all works fine, but I want to run this from the command prompt. I looked here:

http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Media_Center_windows_messages

and the nearest thing I can find is
30007   MCC_PLAY_PLAYLIST   int nPlaylistID

so I think this is saying I need to identify the PlaylistID, which is an integer representing my Playlist titled "1 Random Album". How do I find the ID?

Knowing no better I started with number 1 hoping to get any Playlist to play and take it from there.

I've tried

MC19.exe /MCC 30007,1
MC19.exe /MCC 30007,01
all the way up to
MC19.exe /MCC 30007,0000001

but not getting anywhere

[kstuart]

I've tried

MC19.exe /MCC 30007,1
MC19.exe /MCC 30007,01
all the way up to
MC19.exe /MCC 30007,0000001

but not getting anywhere

Wrong wiki page, check this one out:

http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/The_Command_Line

[kitten]

Thank you!

Here is the syntax to play a random album from the command line:

MC19.exe /playReplace TREEPATH="Playlists\Smartlists\1 Random Album"

[drmimosa]

You can do this with a smartlist.
 
If you create a new Smartlist and select Import/Export, the following code will play a random album every time:
 

Code: ( Random Album ) [Select]

[Media Type]=[Audio] [Media Sub Type]=[Music] [Complete Album]=1 ~n=1 ~a
If you want more than one album in the playlist, increase ~n=#

Hey 623, Just discovered this from your signature, what a great smartlist for a large collection. Almost like pulling a record off the shelf...

Thank you for posting this!

[6233638]

Hey 623, Just discovered this from your signature, what a great smartlist for a large collection. Almost like pulling a record off the shelf...

Thank you for posting this!

No problem - I'm glad to hear that you found this useful.
 
Sometimes I don't know what I'm in the mood for and hitting the random button a few times is usually a good way to find something I like. (I have it set to one of the "car radio" buttons)