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Viktorus:
Hello everybody,

I'm considering buying JRiver Mediacenter to organize my music collection.
I've downloaded MC trial version and my first impression was quite positive.
I've checked the forum regarding my questions and I found a lot of topics, but not quite exact.
So I venture to post new topic with my exact questions.

I have a big lossless music collection (1000+ albums).
The majority of this albums are in flac image with embedded CUE, or flac + cue  file in one folder,
so I don't have tracks as a separate files.

I've tried to import my albums into library and it looks like my cue files are not recognized.
All my albums I see as single file per entire album, and I can't see individual tracks, even though I have proper file name, extension and tags in the cue files.

I have two questions:

1) How I have to organize my flac image albums on the disk so it will go to Mediacenter smoothly and I will be able to see individual tracks?

   I want to keep my albums as flac images (most of them are non-stop mixes).
   I don't want to re-code my collection, I don't have that time.
   
   Currently I have a folder per album structure like this:

   Folder Name:     Artist name [Year] - Album Name (label)

   Folder contents: Artist name - Album Name.flac
                    Artist name - Album Name.cue

Could you recommend the optimal folder structure for MC so it can use my cues and show individual tracks?
   

2) Ability to recognize cue files and play individual tracks from them - is my defining buying factor.
Pls tell me if MC is a right tool for this job, I can't spend a lot of time reconverting existing collection.
BTW - do I have to buy MC or I can use JukeBox, because I'm interested in audio ONLY. Where I can see functionality matrix for both programs ?


Thank you very much for your time.

JimH:
In the options for import, did you check the CUE file type?

Alex B:
Embedded cue sheets are not supported. Separate cue files work fine with MJ and MC. As Jim said, you need to enable the "cue" file type in Auto-Import's advanced folder options. Alternatively you can simply drag & drop cue files from Windows Explorer or, for instance, from a Windows search window.

Naturally the cue files need to contain correct filename references. If the filename extensions are .wav instead of .flac the cue files are invalid for FLAC files.

If you want to keep also the referenced disc image files in the library you can configure view schemes with rules that keep them out of sight when they are not needed.

EDIT

Rergarding the folder structure I think your current structure is fine. Just keep each album in a separate folder. Normally cue files do NOT contain any path info and they must be in the same folder with the referenced file.

EDIT2

Added the missing NOT word.

Viktorus:
Thanks a lot guys, I didn't know cue setting exist in import. I'll give it a try. Thanks!

JimH:
Thanks, Alex.  I've stolen your instructions for a new Wiki entry on Cue Files.

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