Squeezebox server 8.2 single flac image play

[ionian]

Hi.
I use Vortexbox on the NUC. After update Squeezebox server 8.2, PicorePlayer don't play single flac image+cue files as tracks. As only single track plays.
There was no problem before with LMS 7.7.6
Has anyone else encountered this problem with LMS 8.2? How can I fix this problem?

[Paul Webster]

There were changes made to how some .cue files are processed.

Can you post the header and first track from your .cue files and say what created them?

[ionian]

REM GENRE Greek
REM DATE 2000
REM DISCID 15103412
REM COMMENT ExactAudioCopy v0.95b4
PERFORMER "Melina Kana"
TITLE "Portrait"
FILE "CDImage.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Alkoolika Stichakia"
ISRC 000000000000
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Na Valo Ta Metaksota"
ISRC 000000000000
INDEX 00 03:18:50
INDEX 01 03:20:52

This is the header and firs two tracks of cue file.

[ionian]

Has anyone else encountered this problem?

[mherger]

> Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Make sure you don't have both embedded and external CUE sheets.

[ionian]

I removed the tags and embedded CUE sheet in flac file. There is only CUE sheet file in the clastor. But didn't solved problem.
Unfortunately, this problem started after the LMS 8.2 update.

[bpa]

I removed the tags and embedded CUE sheet in flac file. There is only CUE sheet file in the clastor. But didn't solved problem.
Unfortunately, this problem started after the LMS 8.2 update.

Did it work in 7.9.1 ? or did you jump from 7.7.6 to 8.2 ?

CUE file format are somewhat unregulated. There is an option in EAC to generate "unsupported" CUE file format. The problem usually relates to the use of the "INDEX" .

IIRC Prior to a change in Oct 2020 - these cue file were processed incorrectly and but by accident managed to be playable.
The change initially broke the "ignoring" of these files so it took a few iterations to have new change working and also "ignore" unsupported variations.

However, A similar report to yours was posted in Jan but was unable to follow through in determining exact cause.

I don't use CUE file so each time this sort of issue appears, it take a while to set up test to try tr replicate what is happening.
At the moment need to confirm whether your cue files are of the "supported" variety.

[ionian]

Hi,
Thank you for your detailed explanation. I'm jumping from 7.7.6 to 8.2

Problem not solved. However, there was a situation like this:
If I set the flac decoding setting to native, the cue files plays.


But I want it to be converted to PCM on the server. In this case, CUE files are not read:


I couldn't decide what to do. Should I convert all of my image flac files to tarks? Or should I wait for the problem to be resolved in new update?

[chill]

The majority of my library is in the form of album FLAC + CUE files. Many (most?) of my CUE files also have INDEX 00 and INDEX 01, but as BPA points out these have never caused me a problem. I'm now running LMS 8.2 and everything still works as before.

Just to be sure - have you done a complete 'clear and rescan'?

[chill]

REM GENRE Greek
REM DATE 2000
REM DISCID 15103412
REM COMMENT ExactAudioCopy v0.95b4
PERFORMER "Melina Kana"
TITLE "Portrait"
FILE "CDImage.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Alkoolika Stichakia"
ISRC 000000000000
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Na Valo Ta Metaksota"
ISRC 000000000000
INDEX 00 03:18:50
INDEX 01 03:20:52

This is the header and firs two tracks of cue file.

Just a thought - all my CUE files have exactly the same name as the corresponding FLAC file (apart from the extension of course). I notice that your example lists the flac file as "CDImage.flac". I can't recall whether this is important, but you could try renaming your FLAC file in this example to match the CUE filename to see if it makes a difference.