Transcoding FLAC with cuesheet

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Transcoding FLAC with cuesheet

Postby hornerg » 04 Jul 2014 13:44

Prompted by Suncatcher's post on the *nix forum, and wanting the same thing, I took a crash course in Lua and hacked cue.lua to stream each track on a cuesheet to a separate mp3 file. Developed on Windoze, and I haven't tested it on Linux. It probably should be implemeted as an extension with some configuration options, but would need more time for that. Put this file in your lua/playlist/ folder. Re-name your cuesheet from foo.cue to foo.cue2mp3 and just drag it into vlc.

HOWEVER, there are two issues. Using the --start-time and --stop-time switches using the default cue interpreter rounds down times to the nearest second. I don't know why this is - did an older version of vlc require an integer here? Removing the math.floor() function from cue.lua fixes it as expected. Issue 2 is that even though this fix finds the start and end of each track correctly when playing the file, it doesn't work when streaming. Vlc seems by default to round start times down to the nearest 10 seconds and round stop times up similarly. So each mp3 has a few seconds of the previous track at the beginning and a few seconds of the next track at the end. It would be good to know why this is, and whether it can be fixed. Meanwhile this script is useless :wink: but I thought I would put it out for discussion.

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--[[ Parse CUE file and transcode each track to mp3 $Id$ Copyright (C) 2014 Graham Horner using code Copyright (C) 2009 Laurent Aimar This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301, USA. --]] -- Probe function. function probe() if( not string.match( string.upper( vlc.path ), ".CUE2MP3$" ) ) then return false end header = vlc.peek( 2048 ) return string.match( header, "FILE.*WAVE%s*[\r\n]+" ) or string.match( header, "FILE.*AIFF%s*[\r\n]+" ) or string.match( header, "FILE.*MP3%s*[\r\n]+" ) end -- Helpers function is_utf8( src ) return vlc.strings.from_charset( "UTF-8", src ) == src end function cue_string( src ) if not is_utf8( src ) then -- Convert to UTF-8 since it's probably Latin1 src = vlc.strings.from_charset( "ISO_8859-1", src ) end local sub = string.match( src, "^\"(.*)\".*$" ); if( sub ) then return sub end return string.match( src, "^(%S+).*$" ) end function cue_path( src ) if( string.match( src, "^/" ) or string.match( src, "^\\" ) or string.match( src, "^[%l%u]:\\" ) ) then return string.sub( vlc.strings.make_uri(src), 1 ) end local slash = string.find( string.reverse( vlc.path ), '/' ) local prefix = vlc.access .. "://" .. string.sub( vlc.path, 1, -slash ) -- FIXME: postfix may not be encoded correctly (esp. slashes) local postfix = vlc.strings.encode_uri_component(src) return prefix .. postfix end function cue_track( global, track ) if( track.index01 == nil ) then return nil end t = {} t.path = cue_path( track.file or global.file ) t.title = track.title or global.title t.name = track.title or global.title t.album = global.title t.artist = track.performer or global.performer t.genre = track.genre or global.genre t.date = track.date or global.date t.description = global.comment t.tracknum = track.num -- we need to construct the full file path for the destination using vlc.path -- vlc.path is written with forward slashes and has a slash at the beginning, before C:/ local slash = string.find( string.reverse( vlc.path ), '/' ) local filepath = string.sub( vlc.path, 2, -slash ) .. track.num .. " " .. string.gsub(track.title, "[\\/?:*\"><|]" , "-") .. ".mp3" if( string.find(track.file, "\\") ) then -- track.file seems the only place where the platform filesystem separators are preserved filepath = string.gsub(filepath, "/", "\\") end t.options = { ":start-time=" .. track.index01 , -- rounding down removed here ':sout=#transcode{vcodec=none,acodec=mp3,ab=192,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:std{access=file,mux=raw,dst="' .. filepath ..'"' } return t end function cue_append( tracks, global, track ) local t = cue_track( global, track ) if( t ~= nil ) then if( #tracks > 0 ) then local prev = tracks[#tracks] table.insert( prev.options, ':stop-time=' .. track.index01 ) -- rounding down removed here end table.insert( tracks, t ) end end -- Parse function. function parse() p = {} global_data = nil data = {} file = nil while true do line = vlc.readline() if not line then break end cmd, arg = string.match( line, "^%s*(%S+)%s*(.*)$" ) if( cmd == "REM" and arg ) then subcmd, value = string.match( arg, "^(%S+)%s*(.*)$" ) if( subcmd == "GENRE" and value ) then data.genre = cue_string( value ) elseif( subcmd == "DATE" and value ) then data.date = cue_string( value ) elseif( subcmd == "COMMENT" and value ) then data.comment = cue_string( value ) end elseif( cmd == "PERFORMER" and arg ) then data.performer = cue_string( arg ) elseif( cmd == "TITLE" and arg ) then data.title = cue_string( arg ) elseif( cmd == "FILE" ) then file = cue_string( arg ) elseif( cmd == "TRACK" ) then if( not global_data ) then global_data = data else cue_append( p, global_data, data ) end data = { file = file, num = string.match( arg, "^(%d+)" ) } elseif( cmd == "INDEX" ) then local idx, m, s, f = string.match( arg, "(%d+)%s+(%d+):(%d+):(%d+)" ) if( idx == "01" and m ~= nil and s ~= nil and f ~= nil ) then data.index01 = m * 60 + s + f / 75 end end end cue_append( p, global_data, data ) return p end

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