Kodi users: Concert and Music Videos - Please Read

[LuvMyQuad]

Here's another example of a CUE file that won't play:

REM GENRE ""
REM DATE
REM COMMENT ""
PERFORMER "Gentle Giant"
TITLE "The Power and the Glory"
FILE "Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory.mkv" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Proclamation (5.1 mix)"
PERFORMER "Gentle Giant"
INDEX 01 00:00:00

The file names of the folder, the CUE file, and the MKV file are all:
Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory

Have you added MKV as a valid music file in kodi?

Edit: nevermind. I see you have gotten some MKVs to work

 

[HomerJAU]

Have you added MKV as a valid music file in kodi?

Edit: nevermind. I see you have gotten some MKVs to work

Yes. That must be done in the advancedstiings.xml file so Kodi will 'see' mkv files for its Music (audio) database

 

[paligap]

Wil the mkv play without the CUE?

Yes, all the combined MKV files play with correct chapters, regardless of whether their corresponding CUE files play.

 

[paligap]

To clarify: I haven't tried to play any of these recombined MKV files in Kodi, just using VLC on my PC. I figured if the CUE file won't play in VLC on my PC, there's no sense in moving them to my Music database in Kodi. To further clarify, the original separated MVK files play just fine in Kodi.

 

[HomerJAU]

Can you post the entire CUE file contents for one that is not playing please (copy and paste the text here)

 

[paligap]

Can you post the entire CUE file contents for one that is not playing please (copy and paste the text here)

REM GENRE ""
REM DATE
REM COMMENT ""
PERFORMER "Gentle Giant"
TITLE "The Power and the Glory"
FILE "Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory.mkv" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Proclamation (5.1 mix)"
PERFORMER "Gentle Giant"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "So Sincere (5.1 mix)"
PERFORMER "Gentle Giant"
INDEX 01 06:57:50
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "Aspirations (5.1 mix)"
PERFORMER "Gentle Giant"
INDEX 01 10:47:27
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "Playing the Game (5.1 mix)"
PERFORMER "Gentle Giant"
INDEX 01 16:10:45
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "Cogs in Cogs (5.1 mix)"
PERFORMER "Gentle Giant"
INDEX 01 22:56:53
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "No God’s a Man (5.1 mix)"
PERFORMER "Gentle Giant"
INDEX 01 26:05:42
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "The Face (5.1 mix)"
PERFORMER "Gentle Giant"
INDEX 01 30:32:34
TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE "Valedictory (5.1 mix)"
PERFORMER "Gentle Giant"
INDEX 01 34:45:25
TRACK 09 AUDIO
TITLE "The Power and the Glory (5.1 mix)"
PERFORMER "Gentle Giant"
INDEX 01 38:11:15

 

[HomerJAU]

The fix is: ....

REM DATE

No date VLC chokes.

remove that line or enter a year:
e,g. REM DATE 2000

 

[HomerJAU]

The next MMH beta release will not write a REM DATE if the date is empty. I will build and upload Beta 7 in next 15 minutes

BTW: In Join Batch tool the Date is read from the folder name - example: Animals (1978) - year must be in brackets

 

[paligap]

The fix is: ....

REM DATE

No date VLC chokes.

remove that line or enter a year:
e,g. REM DATE 2000

That did it. Thanks!