CueBrainz v1.3
— Last update Oct 31, 2007 — Installed 449 times.|
Script Summary:
Generate cue sheets directly from the musicbrainz.org website. |
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Usage
After installing the script, browse to a release page on musicbrainz.org. You will see a new link next to "Search google". If you click this, you will be prompted to open/save the CueSheet. You can open it in your favorite text editor (should be PSPad), or give it a sensible name and save it to disk. I made a new content-type, text/CueSheet, so you can check "Always do this for this file extension", but be warned. I did this and now I can not change it anymore. I don't find the setting anywhere in the Firefox config files. Consider before you choose...
In reality you will always have to edit it because you need to insert your filename after "FILE". Following the filename is a filetype. According to this cue sheet specs it can be:
"The following filetypes are allowed...
BINARY - Intel binary file (least significant byte first)
MOTOROLA - Motorola binary file (most significant byte first)
AIFF - Audio AIFF file
WAVE - Audio WAVE file
MP3 - Audio MP3 file"
There are also other web resources for cue sheets like Cue Sheet Heaven. They have 13.000 cue sheets in their archive. Recently freedb search got back online also and Cue Sheet Heaven has a cue sheet generator for freedb information, which gives you an extra 2 million cue sheets.
Limitations and Restrictions
- Contrary to the statement on wikipedia, CueBrainz generates a utf-8 sheet. This should not usually cause much trouble unless your player does not support utf-8
- Some information on musicbrainz is incomplete (eg. track has no duration). In this case the cue sheet will be generated, but obviously,all the starting indexes of the following tracks will just be ??:??. For other information missing, this should not cause errors either, but the corresponding lines in the sheet will just be ommitted.
- In general, cue sheet support is abominal (in mediaplayers I mean). I cannot help that. Blame your local media player :-)
If errors occur, or undesired behaviour, or the design choices I made result in problems, or you have suggestions on improving the script, or you have feature requests, don't hesitate to write me (najamelan->gmail.com) and I will see what I can do. I choose not to support all the more esoteric features of cue sheets until people request them. Also extra remarks, like the music brainz id, or release dates and so forth if people think this would be useful...
Changelog:
Version 1.3 -- 2007-10-31
- Thanx to Sven Hoffmeister for finding and solving a bug in the conversion from seconds to frames. This bug might have caused wrong cuesheets with times like 21:54:75 which should be 21:55:00 because there are only 75 frames in 1 second. If you find :75 in your cuesheets, you are best to correct them. Sorry!
Version 1.2 -- 2007-05-13
- Found another url: http://*musicbrainz.org/album/*
Version 1.1 -- 2007-05-02
- Now using XPath instead of for loops to find nodes
