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Who can tell me how to open cue or bin files with the VLC player....???

Put them in the same directory and given them the same name. Then, open either cue or the bin file with VLC as you would do with any other file.

And the .cue file has to be relative. Often the .cue file contains the location of where the file was first created. You then need to fix that location in the .cue file (use a texteditor)

For some reason i can't get VLC to open a .cue file. Not by dragging it to VLC, not by opening it within VLC.

The cue file is located in the same folder as the wav file it points to.
When i drag the wav file to the VLC desktop shortcut it plays fine, but of course it's one large track.

The cue file is associated with foobar2000. Doubleclicking it starts foobar and plays the individually adressable tracks in the large wav file fine.

These are the first lines of the cue file:
PERFORMER "Billy Joel"
TITLE "The Stranger"
FILE "Stranger.wav" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Movin Out (Anthony's Song)"
PERFORMER "Billy Joel"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
....

Below is the output of the message screen in VLC. Thanks for any advice.

main debug: control type=0
main debug: control: INPUT_CONTROL_SET_DIE proceed
main debug: closing input
main debug: unlocking module "a52"
main debug: unlocking module "a52sys"
main debug: unlocking module "access_file"
main debug: unlocking module "a52"
main debug: thread 3368 joined (src/input/decoder.c:189)
main debug: killing decoder fourcc `a52 ', 1 PES in FIFO
main debug: unlocking module "a52tofloat32"
main debug: unlocking module "bandlimited_resampler"
aout_directx debug: CloseAudio
aout_directx debug: DirectSoundThread exiting
main debug: thread 3912 joined (directx.c:576)
main debug: unlocking module "aout_directx"
main debug: unlocking module "float32tos16"
main debug: unlocking module "trivial_mixer"
main debug: thread 3304 joined (src/input/input.c:290)
main debug: adding playlist item `L:\New Folder\Billy Joel - Stranger DTS\Stranger.cue' ( L:\New Folder\Billy Joel - Stranger DTS\Stranger.cue )
main debug: creating new input thread
main debug: waiting for thread completion
main debug: thread 3348 (input) created at priority 1 (src/input/input.c:228)
main warning: drive letter L: found in source
main debug: `L:\New Folder\Billy Joel - Stranger DTS\Stranger.cue' gives access `' demux `' path `L:\New Folder\Billy Joel - Stranger DTS\Stranger.cue'
main debug: demux2_New: access='' demux='' path='L:\New Folder\Billy Joel - Stranger DTS\Stranger.cue'
main debug: looking for access_demux module
main debug: probing 1 candidate
main debug: access2_New: access='' path='L:\New Folder\Billy Joel - Stranger DTS\Stranger.cue'
main debug: looking for access2 module
main debug: probing 4 candidates
vcd debug: trying .cue file: L:\New Folder\Billy Joel - Stranger DTS\Stranger.cue
vcd warning: could not open L:\New Folder\Billy Joel - Stranger DTS\Stranger.cue
access_file debug: opening file `L:\New Folder\Billy Joel - Stranger DTS\Stranger.cue'
main debug: using access2 module "access_file"
main debug: pre buffering
main debug: received first data for our buffer
main debug: demux2_New: access='' demux='' path='L:\New Folder\Billy Joel - Stranger DTS\Stranger.cue'
main debug: looking for demux2 module
main debug: probing 34 candidates
mp4 warning: MP4 plugin discarded (not a valid file)
avi warning: avi module discarded (invalid header)
asf warning: ASF plugin discarded (not a valid file)
flac warning: flac module discarded (no startcode)
aac warning: AAC module discarded
main debug: looking for id3 module
main debug: probing 2 candidates
id3tag debug: checking for ID3 tag
main debug: using id3 module "id3tag"
main debug: unlocking module "id3tag"
mpgv warning: ES module discarded (no startcode)
sap warning: SDP (UDP) module discarded
livedotcom warning: SDP module discarded
mkv warning: matroska module discarded (invalid header 0x50455246)
ogg warning: ogg module discarded (invalid header)
real warning: Real module discarded
aiff warning: AIFF module discarded
au warning: AU module discarded
mod warning: MOD module discarded (extention 'cue' unknown)
nsv warning: NSV module discarded
playlist warning: old import module discarded: invalid file
playlist warning: pls import module discarded
pva warning: PVA module discarded
ts warning: TS module discarded
ffmpeg debug: couldn't guess format
ps warning: this does not look like an MPEG PS stream, continuing anyway
main debug: using demux2 module "ps"
main debug: looking for a subtitle file in L:\New Folder\Billy Joel - Stranger DTS\
main debug: `L:\New Folder\Billy Joel - Stranger DTS\Stranger.cue' sucessfully opened
ps warning: garbage at input
ps warning: garbage at input
main debug: EOF reached
main debug: closing input
main debug: unlocking module "ps"
main debug: unlocking module "access_file"
main debug: thread 3348 joined (src/input/input.c:290)

we only support .bin + .cue files for (S)VCD

Thanks for your reply.
Any plans for this, any chance it will be supported in the future?

I would like to have this function too...

there isn't a very good audio player on mac...except there's a new player called cog supports lossless formats like flac, monkey's audio, wavpack ,.etc

but i would like to have vlc to be able to use cuesheet as the time marking document which can separate one long audio track like foobar2000 does..

i would like to see this function in vlc too...

any plan on working on this??


thanks

How can I get an .srt subtitle file to work with a cue/bin movie file - I can see the movie fine, I just can see the subtitle.

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