Well, I can tell you how I've learned to live with those limitations
(and my apologies if I'm starting to sound like an evangelist for my
format-of-choice):
1. No fast-forward or rewind: this is true ONLY for INTRA-track FF or
RW. INTER-track FF & RW works perfectly. I've learned to be patient
and wait for one of the clever developers to remove the need for
server-side transcoding. (Josh Coalson has posted a couple of times to
the developer's forum pointing out ways that this could be
accomplished.) But, the fact that I AM patient here is a positive sign
that all the therapy and anti-depressants are working.
2. Cuesheet does not hold Disc number and Total Discs for multi-disc
CDs: I'm not sure that is actually true anymore. I thought I spotted
a reference to some code checked in within the past couple of months
that added support for DISCC tags in cuesheets. But anyway, a simple
DISCNUMBER tag added to the flac file solves this very easily. Here is
my code to automatically add that tag to a whole-album flac:
Code:
--------------------
:NUM_DISCS
for /L %%Z in (1,1,9) do for %%I in ("* - D%%Z.flac") do if
"%%I"=="%~n1.flac" if exist "%%I" echo Numbering discs.. & "%~dp0metaflac.exe"
--set-tag=DISCNUMBER=%%Z "%%I"
for /L %%Z in (1,1,9) do for %%I in ("* - D0%%Z.flac") do if
"%%I"=="%~n1.flac" if exist "%%I" echo Numbering discs.. & "%~dp0metaflac.exe"
--set-tag=DISCNUMBER=0%%Z "%%I"
for /L %%Z in (10,1,99) do for %%I in ("* - D%%Z.flac") do if
"%%I"=="%~n1.flac" if exist "%%I" echo Numbering discs.. & "%~dp0metaflac.exe"
--set-tag=DISCNUMBER=%%Z "%%I"
--------------------
Any flac file that has the format: "Album Title Name - Dn.flac" will
get the right DISCNUMBER tag added as a result of that script. SC's
multi-disc album features work perfectly this way.
3. Most other players do not support cuesheet + single file: yeah,
you're right. My solution: I don't use most other players. I'm a
slave to SlimDevices for life now.
4. Don't know a way to put lyrics in cuesheet: You don't need to.
It's no different than with with single-trak flacs: add a separate
LYRICS tag to the flac file. Works perfectly. Again, a bit of code:
Code:
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"%~dp0metaflac.exe" --no-utf8-convert "--set-tag-from-file=LYRICS=%~n1.html"
"%~n1.flac"
--------------------
I haven't actually tried this, but adding lyrics in the form of
"LYRICS[n]" tags might even work for track-specific lyrics.
5. When browsing "music folder", individual tracks make more sense: You
got me there, and, yes, this is an obvious limitation. Personally, I
stopped using this feature when I switched from MP3s to FLACs.
--
gharris999
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