Thanks for the answers Alex B
- Is it possible to right-click a track in the cue and send to playing now ? To take it further is it possible to select tracks from different cue files and send to playing now. What is playback performance like ?
Yes and the performance is OK with a P4. There is no difference if you play a file directly or by a CUE file. Actually CUE files are needed only at the import stage. MC does not use them after that. All information is kept in the library.
OK, lets take it a bt further, try picking tracks that are at least half way down or near the end of a cue. How is the performance now ?
I'm impressed there are no adverse effects since MC has to read the mp3s up to the point where the desired track starts.
CD burning
The duration of the Audio CD burning list stays at zero, because files don't have that information (missing duration information is mentioned earlier in this thread).
Does MC burn the CD successfully at all, are track markers inserted at the correct points ?
More bugs:
Quotes
All names must be in quotes. Even if there are no spaces. I had to edit every CUE file because EAC writes single word names without quotes:
This is the standard, but not OK for MC:
I suppose in a way we are asking MC to correct the CUE, could be useful for fixing broken cues.
48 kHz output mode in DSP studio
If usual 44.1 kHz files are played with 48 kHz output mode tracks end too early. A 5-minute track stops at about 4 minutes and 45 seconds and MC starts the next track.
I use the 48 kHz output mode in my laptop, because it resamples anyway to 48 kHz and the integrated circuit is not so high quality.
Curious why you use 48Khz, since the tracks are usually 44.1 khz, It seems like uncessary work to resample to 48khz.
Are you saying you can tell the difference ? ..does 48khz actually sound better than 44.1khz ?
File conversions
It is possible to convert a CUE track to a single-track file, but there is no system for filenames and no tags are included. MC uses the album file name (+ a sequence number if needed).
If i understand correctly, you are trying to extract single files from an album with a cue ?
MC has access to the trackname, track artist, album & track # from the cue already. I think it would be ok, to tag the file as such.
How the file is actually named on the disk needs to be explored further. I think of extracting a track from a cue as similar to ripping a track from a CD. MC could use the same naming convention for extracted tracks as chosen when ripping CDs.
...What do people think ?