Have you added MKV as a valid music file in kodi?
Edit: nevermind. I see you have gotten some MKVs to work
Kodi users: Concert and Music Videos - Please Read
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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
Yes, all the combined MKV files play with correct chapters, regardless of whether their corresponding CUE files play.
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.
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
The fix is: ....
REM DATE
No date VLC chokes.
remove that line or enter a year:
e,g. REM DATE 2000
REM DATE
No date VLC chokes.
remove that line or enter a year:
e,g. REM DATE 2000
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
BTW: In Join Batch tool the Date is read from the folder name - example: Animals (1978) - year must be in brackets
That did it. Thanks!
I went back and used the Scrape Concert folders function to ensure the Concert Tags (Mandatory) window had the year, genre, and correct title, and saved the NFO files. Then I reran the Batch Merge, and all the new CUE files run in VLC with the correct chapters.
However, now only about a third of the CUE files (and their corresponding MKV files) display the correct song (chapter) title at the beginning of each song. Some of them display the title of the last song for all the songs in the MKV files. Other display only Artist - Album - Artist for every song. One displays "title_t00" for every song. I've looked at the CUE files, and I can't find any discrepancies to explain the different behaviors.
I'm beginning to wonder whether VLC is the best way to test the CUE files. I might try to find an alternative to use on my PC, or just add the files to the Music database in Kodi on my secondary system to see what Kodi does with them.
VLC works funky with cue files when I try it too. Like I select the cue and it starts playing a track that's midway through the album.
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