About the aforementioned playlist behavior with cue sheets: now it correctly moves to the next track, but sometimes, after having played one from a regular file, it doesn't start the next one from a cue sheet, just stops playing.
When this has happened, Strawberry was not the active window; it had been some time without user interaction. The media files of the stopped tracks were both flac and mp3. I'll report if I find more info.
By the way, thanks also for fixing the UTF-8 encoding.
External User commands would bring a lot of functionality to Strawberry. A placeholder for the URL of the currently played track, another one for the selected tracks and a menubar entry "User commands" to store and launch them would be enough for me.
Having this would be awesome: we could check integrity of the tracks, Realplay Gain them, open them in editors, move files to other locations according to rules, tweak the sound system, schedule the reproduction, display a spectrogram or the images on the directory, query the database... anything achievable with external commands or scripts would be two clics away. And users could share here some of their scripts.
Years ago, I managed to insert in Clementine a contextual menu entry that opened a kdialog menu with my favorite actions for the selected tracks and I used it a lot, so I'm think more people would welcome proper User commands. They mean lots of power at zero cost for the player!
And I'm not sure of this, but I guess such a feature could also make possible a few suggestions of this forum.
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About the aforementioned playlist behavior with cue sheets: now it correctly moves to the next track, but sometimes, after having played one from a regular file, it doesn't start the next one from a cue sheet, just stops playing.
When this has happened, Strawberry was not the active window; it had been some time without user interaction. The media files of the stopped tracks were both flac and mp3. I'll report if I find more info.
By the way, thanks also for fixing the UTF-8 encoding.
It seems installing the latest development version 1.2.3-2.14 fixed the problem where sometimes the whole media file was played instead of a particular track of a cue sheet. Thank you.
So I felt like revisiting the specs for cue sheets and was surprised to learn there is a way to hide tracks with the pre-gap trick, which I hadn't paid attention to before: https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Cue_sheet#A_single-file_cue_sheet_with_a_TRACK_01_INDEX_00_hidden_track
Tried it with Strawberry and I was very pleased to see that it works nicely. The track is shown normally in the playlist, but with zero duration, so it's skipped when playing, while keeping the user aware of it. I play cue sheets a lot, so, from the bottom of my soul, big thanks to the team for your work, and particularly for the support of cue sheets.
For those interested, an example to hide the advertisement of the following section:
TRACK 18 AUDIO
PERFORMER "Johnny Wisehost"
TITLE "Comments"
SONGWRITER " "
INDEX 01 49:23:07
TRACK 19 AUDIO
PERFORMER "Some Radio Station"
TITLE "Intermission advertisements"
SONGWRITER " "
INDEX 01 49:52:66
TRACK 20 AUDIO
PERFORMER "Johnny Wisehost"
TITLE "Comments"
SONGWRITER " "
INDEX 01 50:48:07
Result:
TRACK 18 AUDIO
PERFORMER "Johnny Wisehost"
TITLE "Comments"
SONGWRITER " "
INDEX 01 49:23:07
TRACK 19 AUDIO
PERFORMER "Some Radio Station"
TITLE "Intermission advertisements"
SONGWRITER " "
INDEX 00 49:52:66
INDEX 01 50:48:06
TRACK 20 AUDIO
PERFORMER "Johnny Wisehost"
TITLE "Comments"
SONGWRITER " "
INDEX 01 50:48:07
Had I known about this earlier I'd have saved a lot of headaches, but better late than never.
Curious about the blank spaces as SONGWRITER values? For some reason I needed to do that time ago for the tag to work at all (can't remember exactly why or which player needed it), so the script always inserts it when there is no composer data. Too lazy to check now if it's necessary, but left them in case that helps someone.
// Edited: This should have gone to "Comments and Feedback", sorry. Maybe and admin can move it.
I would check first if the files are OK. Can they be played normally with other programs? If yes, can you inspect the track properties and tell if the media types match the file extensions, or if the tracks lack extension? Applications like MediaInfo, or simply "file" in Linux will help.
What happens if you copy one of them to a folder that's included in the collection? Or the inverse: copy a recognized track to those folders. Use Tools/Update-changed-collection-folders if necessary. Try also adding their folders to the collection.
These tests may narrow the problem.
Yes, that's a good option for the currently played track. But as far as I know, it won't work for the selected track(s): we can't get that list with Strawberry commands or from dbus.
That's why I had done that dirty hack to Clementine's context menu. It got and sent the selection to kdialog, a KDE's zenity alternative that worked like you propose. Another option, which I still use, is drag & drop to a .desktop file or plasma widget that deals with the list.
And you're also right that it would be harder for less experienced and non *nix users to do it. Much easier is "Hey, download my .bat file and create a new User command called ReplayGain that executes C:\somewhere\file.bat %S".
External User commands would bring a lot of functionality to Strawberry. A placeholder for the URL of the currently played track, another one for the selected tracks and a menubar entry "User commands" to store and launch them would be enough for me.
Having this would be awesome: we could check integrity of the tracks, Realplay Gain them, open them in editors, move files to other locations according to rules, tweak the sound system, schedule the reproduction, display a spectrogram or the images on the directory, query the database... anything achievable with external commands or scripts would be two clics away. And users could share here some of their scripts.
Years ago, I managed to insert in Clementine a contextual menu entry that opened a kdialog menu with my favorite actions for the selected tracks and I used it a lot, so I'm think more people would welcome proper User commands. They mean lots of power at zero cost for the player!
And I'm not sure of this, but I guess such a feature could also make possible a few suggestions of this forum.
</car_seller>