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Unfortunately this is just a script which is a temporary substitute for proper functionality. The MM team are looking into implementing CUE sheets properly, which should give you the features you require. These however are not possible from a script.

I've had an idea on this. I think, although I haven't tried this, that you could add the same filename to the database multiple times, once for each track in the cue sheet. Then in each of the tracks you would specify the track number which is the number in the cue sheet. Then when the Cue Reader opens for that song it would also be able to skip straight to the right song. This would of course allow you to have all the details stored for this track in the database, but synchronising to the tags would not work - this would cause problems.

This is all just ideas - what do people think about this?

That's extremly intresting!!
But if you succed to add the individual songs to the songs table why use the cue reader to display the songs? Wont playing them display the info in now playing? But on the other hand how does MM know where to start to play in the big file?
Please explain a bit more what you mean/how it should work!


/Bex

Yes, in this case you wouldn't need the Cue Reader at all, so maybe this would be a separate script. What you'd actually do is force the database to contain the same song multiple times with timestamps stored for the beginning and end of the track. Then you'd need an OnPlay script which looked for the timestamps, and if there are then it should skip to the beginning and skip to the next track at the end timestamp. Does this make sense?

N.B. I still have no idea whether this will actually work!

Sounds wonderfull, go for it!
This do also mean that you could search for the tracks which is something i really miss.

Thanks
/Bex

Hello, I'm new to MM, and I have a lot of album wraps that I ripped into a single file + cuesheet.

I have problems with the cuesheet reader, the installation works OK, but when I look into Add/Remove Programs I see the installer somehow "overtakes" the original MM entry (showing cuesheet reader script with a size of about 22mb, euh).

And I can't get the script running, either. I get a lot of ActiveX and whatnot errors, after clicking away 3 or 4 error requestors I eventually get the cuesheet window, but the middle part of it is blank (whatever would be there I don't know). What could be causing this?

Thanks...

Yes, the installer renames the MediaMonkey uninstall. This is because it adds itself to the uninstaller so the script will be removed when you uninstall MediaMonkey.

The ActiveX warnings are because of your security settings. You need to set your Internet Options to allow "Initialise and script activex not marked as safe" - or something like that.

Hi trix,

I think the SDB error I'm getting is just because I installed IE7. So don't mind me

Hmmm, ok. Any chance to get the script without the installer, or with an installer that does not alter the existing MM install entry? I for one find it confusing if one installer mangles another installers information.

1) The installers don't "mangle" the MM uninstall, they add themselves to it.

2) Yes, you just look back through this thread until you find the code. Or just go straight to page 5, as that's where it is.

...thank you.

To complete being an idiot - how do I uninstall the script and restore the original MM entry when using the control panel/add or remove programs? I didn't find that option.

A separate uninstaller is not created. If you wish to remove the script, open Scripts.ini and delete the relevant entries, plus delete the script files.

@Bex (and anyone else who was interested) -

It's not really possible to do the CueSupport idea I had where I was planning to have the same track added to the library multiple times. Having tracks with the same filename updates all the tracks, causing the names to be changed. The only way to do this would be to rename the track filename_1.mp3, filename_2.mp3, etc - which with an albumwrap is simply not a sensible idea. I thought about changing the filename but this just makes the tracks inaccessible and then you can't play them anyway.

So, I'm going back to CueReader and improving that instead! Any suggestions, let me know!

Yes, I figured it would be hard to implement it.
To achieve this you need to create an extra table which would contain:
Songid, Track#, Start, End, Performer, Title (And maybe some more fields.)
Compound key on Songid and track#.

Issues to solve with a auto-script:
- When scanning cue-sheets populate the new table
- When playing a file with an entry in the new table, display the entries in now playing.
- Include the new table in the search engine.


But i dont think it is possible...

/Bex

Even if it is possible, I don't fancy adding tables and stuff to the MM database. Could cause instabilities - especially with my SQL!