AVR chops off beginning of ATMOS Tracks (SEE MY WORKAROUND IN POST #41)

[HomerJAU]

I’ve been updating LE13 (with Kodi 22 alphas) regularly so I’ll let you know when I see it included. First step is to see the code merged in Kodi 22 source, and in Kodi 21. Then the next build is good to go.

You don’t need to reinstall, just copy the update to the LE ‘Update’ folder and reboot. Only the program and system files are updated, no changes to your settings, library or skins etc. You can open the Update folder from a PC on same network (you may know this already, same applies to CoreElec)

 

[HomerJAU]

The latest fix to get last track duration from any mka file has been checked in to Kodi master source code (Kodi 22 alpha).

EDIT: Not done in Kodi 21 Omega. So it won’t get to CoreElec or LibreElec 12 yet.
Also done in Kodi 21 Omega earlier, I’d missed it. So it will get to CoreElec or LibreElec 12 soon.

It shouldn’t be long before it’s included in LE 13 nightlies as that’s using Kodi 22. Windows nightly builds of Kodi 22 will include the fix from tomorrow. CoreElec nightlies and LE 12 nightlies soon. It will be included in all Kodi 21.2 official builds, due out soon I hear.

 

[HomerJAU]

Latest Kodi 22 alpha build now committed to LibreElec 13, so next LE13 nightly will have the fix.

 

[HomerJAU]

Latest Liberelec 12 (Kodi 21) nightly (dated 16 Jan) has Kodi 21.2!! - So all LibreElec users will have the latest MKA music changes (I have not fully tested is yet). Goodbye CUE files!

 

[HomerJAU]

I can confirm CoreElec 21 nightlies also have the Kodi 21.2 build with MKA tagging support/fixes.

I am about to start testing MMH 9 changes with Kodi 21.2.

 

[HomerJAU]

I tested on LE 12 (Kodi 21.2) and LE 13 (Kodi 22 alpha) Atmos MKA files with tags and chapters were imported into the Kodi library and play perfectly (no date though). They also show correct chapter times if file browsing in Kodi.

I’ll see if I can get another MMH 9 beta out asap so users can tag their mka albums, beta 2 probably works too but beta 3 will create chapters with great accuracy (MMH was saving times to 3 decimal points as per the Matrosks examples but 9 will save to 6 decimal points (micro seconds).

 

[HomerJAU]

For those who have installed a new Kodi 21.2 release from nighties or latest LE 13 with Kodi 22 and want to try the Kodi mka tag support for chapters and no cue, grab this MMH 9 beta 3 preview build.

The new MMH 9 Chapter editor with Kodi MKA tagging support:

Use 'Get Tags from Musicbrainz' to get the tags needed - The new 'Edit/View Tags' is to allow you to view them, no need to edit (unless you just want to manually enter data)

MMH 9 beta 3 preview with all the new Chapter Editor supporting new Kodi MKA tags:
https://reva.blob.core.windows.net/mmh9/beta/preview/MMHInstaller.msi

This requires .NET 9 Desktop Runtime:
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/...u/runtime-desktop-9.0.1-windows-x64-installer

The Atmos Helper Decoder is broken (still a work-in-progress) in this version MMH 9 beta 3 preview, use MMH 8.

THX
Garry

 

[rjpinca]

For those who have installed a new Kodi 21.2 release from nighties or latest LE 13 with Kodi 22 and want to try the Kodi mka tag support for chapters and no cue, grab this MMH 9 beta 3 preview build.

I installed the LE 12.0 Generic nightly dated 20250116 into my NUC, and I successfully tagged an mka with MMH 9 beta 3. It plays great and shows all chapters correctly, and skips to next chapter flawlessly. It's nice to finally see the time counter increment without jumping.
As you said - the year is not displayed, nor is the genre. Using the Aeon Nox: Silvo skin.

 

[HomerJAU]

I’ve reported the missing Year info and started a dialog with Kodi devs to get a fix and attempt to get additional mka tags supported in Kodi.

 

[M-K]

I’ve reported the missing Year info and started a dialog with Kodi devs to get a fix and attempt to get additional mka tags supported in Kodi.

Genre is also missing.

 

[himey]

The Atmos Helper Decoder is broken

Is that just 9, beta 3? I did 1 album using beta 2.

 

[HomerJAU]

Genre is also missing.

Full tag support for mka is mostly implemented in Kod 22 now but there were a few missed (Year, Genre, DiscSubtitle, Remixed, Comment) that should be resolved soon. A Kodi developer is working on this.

I would expect this fix will be merged into Kodi 21 branch but it’s probably missed 22.2 release (although that’s not officially released yet by the look).

 

[HomerJAU]

Is that just 9, beta 3? I did 1 album using beta 2.

Beta 3 preview I posted has a new queue and that’s not yet finished for Decoding. The preview was an early release for users to test the new Kodi MKA tagging (and other changes I’ve confirmed completed on the MMH thread).

 

[HomerJAU]

I just finished testing latest Kodi Matroska tagging changes which now supports all tags correctly (genre and release date included). Its not yet available publicly but its coming VERY soon.

Man this is a game changer (My simple steps):

• I used a fresh mkv rip directly from my EJ Diamonds BDA
• Tagged it with Music Media Helper 9's 'Chapter Editor' - No manual data entry except entering 'Elton John' & 'Diamonds' into the 'Get Tags from Musicbrainz' dialog
• The new MMH 9 found the exact release and loading all the track name to all 48 chapters, Click 'Save' to save the tags & Chapter names (new release has a 'media format filter’ set to 'Blu-ray' so it found just one release)
• In Kodi (test build not yet available to public), scanned my test ‘Music Source' root folder (it actually found all my MKA test album, 3 of them)

That was less than 60 seconds work!

This is what I got in Kodi's Music views:

NOTE: I did not add any album cover image or disc art. Kodi grabbed them automatically based on Musicbrainz tags

In Kodi's recently added albums list, select 'Diamonds' & Click in the 'Info' option (right-click with mouse/long select press on remote on the Album name):
All this data was grabbed by Kodi because in has the Musicbrainz Album ID from the tags created by MMH Chapter Editor

Selecting the Album to Play: A full list of Tracks, play any and Kodi will auto play next until album is finished (gapless/no drop outs between tracks)

Playing a track (Kodi's Artist Slidshow cycles different fanart images will song plays and artist biography shows in ticker-tape at bottom:

Pretty easy!! Literally a Game Changer for BDA playback!!

(you can add your own album and/or disc art manually, this is what Kodi did by itself when it has Musicbrainz tagging for a MKA rip.

 

[minimumtumbleweed]

I just finished testing latest Kodi Matroska tagging changes which now supports all tags correctly (genre and release date included). Its not yet available publicly but its coming VERY soon.

Man this is a game changer (My simple steps):

• I used a fresh mkv rip directly from my EJ Diamonds BDA
• Tagged it with Music Media Helper 9's 'Chapter Editor' - No manual data entry except entering 'Elton John' & 'Diamonds' into the 'Get Tags from Musicbrainz' dialog
• The new MMH 9 found the exact release and loading all the track name to all 48 chapters, Click 'Save' to save the tags & Chapter names (new release has a 'media format filter’ set to 'Blu-ray' so it found just one release)
• In Kodi (test build not yet available to public), scanned my test ‘Music Source' root folder (it actually found all my MKA test album, 3 of them)

That was less than 60 seconds work!

This is what I got in Kodi's Music views:

NOTE: I did not add any album cover image or disc art. Kodi grabbed them automatically based on Musicbrainz tags

In Kodi's recently added albums list, select 'Diamonds' & Click in the 'Info' option (right-click with mouse/long select press on remote on the Album name):
All this data was grabbed by Kodi because in has the Musicbrainz Album ID from the tags created by MMH Chapter Editor
View attachment 112783

Selecting the Album to Play: A full list of Tracks, play any and Kodi will auto play next until album is finished (gapless/no drop outs between tracks)
View attachment 112784

Playing a track (Kodi's Artist Slidshow cycles different fanart images will song plays and artist biography shows in ticker-tape at bottom:
View attachment 112785

Pretty easy!! Literally a Game Changer for BDA playback!!

(you can add your own album and/or disc art manually, this is what Kodi did by itself when it has Musicbrainz tagging for a MKA rip.

This looks great @HomerJAU. I wonder if you know; would these changes in Kodi also affect gapless playback of MKAs using PM4K? Asking because all my media is on a server and not hooked up directly to my AM6B+, and also I am running a community build of CoreElec so haven't updated to most recent version yet.

 

[LuvMyQuad]

I just finished testing latest Kodi Matroska tagging changes which now supports all tags correctly (genre and release date included). Its not yet available publicly but its coming VERY soon.

Man this is a game changer (My simple steps):

• I used a fresh mkv rip directly from my EJ Diamonds BDA
• Tagged it with Music Media Helper 9's 'Chapter Editor' - No manual data entry except entering 'Elton John' & 'Diamonds' into the 'Get Tags from Musicbrainz' dialog
• The new MMH 9 found the exact release and loading all the track name to all 48 chapters, Click 'Save' to save the tags & Chapter names (new release has a 'media format filter’ set to 'Blu-ray' so it found just one release)
• In Kodi (test build not yet available to public), scanned my test ‘Music Source' root folder (it actually found all my MKA test album, 3 of them)

That was less than 60 seconds work!

This is what I got in Kodi's Music views:

NOTE: I did not add any album cover image or disc art. Kodi grabbed them automatically based on Musicbrainz tags

In Kodi's recently added albums list, select 'Diamonds' & Click in the 'Info' option (right-click with mouse/long select press on remote on the Album name):
All this data was grabbed by Kodi because in has the Musicbrainz Album ID from the tags created by MMH Chapter Editor
View attachment 112783

Selecting the Album to Play: A full list of Tracks, play any and Kodi will auto play next until album is finished (gapless/no drop outs between tracks)
View attachment 112784

Playing a track (Kodi's Artist Slidshow cycles different fanart images will song plays and artist biography shows in ticker-tape at bottom:
View attachment 112785

Pretty easy!! Literally a Game Changer for BDA playback!!

(you can add your own album and/or disc art manually, this is what Kodi did by itself when it has Musicbrainz tagging for a MKA rip.

Garry, does the track timer now work properly? If so does it allow the correct timing of the on screen lyrics display?

 

[HomerJAU]

This looks great @HomerJAU. I wonder if you know; would these changes in Kodi also affect gapless playback of MKAs using PM4K? Asking because all my media is on a server and not hooked up directly to my AM6B+, and also I am running a community build of CoreElec so haven't updated to most recent version yet.

What’s PM4K? It won’t be available in the CoreElec community build until that build uses Kodi with this fix.

All my Kodi media players have always used media from a server (NAS), no difference in player performance to having media locally.

BTW: I have 2 x AM6B+ with CoreElec community CPM builds used for 4K Dovi .But I use 2 x Intel NUCs for my music (because I’d bought them earlier, they have 2.5GBE Ethernet and PCIE4 NVME SSDs so navigation through heavy graphics UI is instant, never any lag in cover art when scrolling at high speed, it’s just nicer and too good to ditch just for convenience of having only player per system.

 

[minimumtumbleweed]

What’s PM4K? It won’t be available in the CoreElec community build until that build uses Kodi with this fix.

All my Kodi media players have always used media from a server (NAS), no difference in player performance to having media locally.

BTW: I have 2 x AM6B+ with CoreElec community CPM builds used for 4K Dovi .But I use 2 x Intel NUCs for my music (because I’d bought them earlier, they have 2.5GBE Ethernet and PCIE4 NVME SSDs so navigation through heavy graphics UI is instant, never any lag in cover art when scrolling at high speed, it’s just nicer and too good to ditch just for convenience of having only player per system.

Plex mod for Kodi. I'm aware that it is technically a different app, but running in Kodi so wondering whether it would make a difference.

What do you use the two devices for? Different systems?