[Flac] cuepoints: accuracy, titles and players

[Josh Coalson]

--- On Mon, 4/20/09, porte64 at free.fr <porte64 at free.fr> wrote:

> From: porte64 at free.fr <porte64 at free.fr>
> Subject: [Flac] cuepoints: accuracy, titles and players
> To: flac at xiph.org
> Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 10:07 AM
> Hello,
> 
> I managed to insert cuepoints from a cue sheet and
> check them with metaflac. I witnessed that the FLAC
> headers then had additionnals sections (one for cuepoints
> and one for seekpoints), but i could not find documentation
> how the format used to store them (frame counts for both
> ?).
> 
> Anyway it seems that cuepoints must be specified
> in MM:SS:fr format.
> 
> It would be nice if those could be specified also
> as frame counts (this alternate format is allowed
> for seekpoints):
> --seekpoint={#|X|#x|#s}

not sure what you mean by frame counts but the cue points can
also be absolute sample numbers like --seekpoint=#

> so how about extending --cue or --cuepoints to such
> formats.
> (one more remark: cuesheet TITLE info gets lost upon
> importing,
> it might be interesting to preserve it so that it could
> be displayed by players when one jumps to a new cuepoint).

http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#general__no_cuesheet_tags