[ventolin]

Hi,

if I have a CUE sheet saved in the plugin's addon_data directory, how do I create a ListItem that'll play it once clicked?

I keep getting the following:

Code:

22:02:53.036 T:140736424068032   ERROR: Open - error probing input format, special://profile/addon_data/plugin.audio.bytefm/_content_16_12_26_canteen_1.mp3.cue
22:02:53.036 T:140736424068032   ERROR: Init: Error creating demuxer
22:02:53.036 T:140736424068032   ERROR: CAudioDecoder: Unable to Init Codec while loading file special://profile/addon_data/plugin.audio.bytefm/_content_16_12_26_canteen_1.mp3.cue
22:02:53.036 T:140736424068032 WARNING: PAPlayer::QueueNextFileEx - Failed to create the decoder
22:02:53.036 T:140736424068032   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [plugin://plugin.audio.bytefm/?action=play&moderators=Christian+Tjaben&broadcast_date=26.12.2016&show_slug=canteen&title=Post-Feiertags-zwischen-den-Jahren-Modus+%2826.12.2016%29]

So it's obviously finding the CUE file, but doesn't know what to do with it. How should I specify that it's an Audio CUE Sheet when I instantiate the ListItem object?

[ventolin]

Put it another way. This works:

Code:

url = 'special://profile/addon_data/{}/{}'.format(PLUGIN_NAME, 'bla.m3u')
xbmc.executebuiltin('xbmc.PlayMedia("{}")'.format(url))

But this doesn't:

Code:

url = 'special://profile/addon_data/{}/{}'.format(PLUGIN_NAME, 'bla.cue')
xbmc.executebuiltin('xbmc.PlayMedia("{}")'.format(url))

Where bla.m3u contains:

Code:

track01.mp3

and bla.cue contains:

Code:

PERFORMER "Markus Schaper"
TITLE "Broadcast from 02.01.2010"
FILE "track01.mp3" MP3
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "A Time To Remember (Remix)"
    PERFORMER "Osunlade"
    INDEX 01 00:10:00
FILE "track01.mp3" MP3
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Won’t You Open Up Your Senses (Remix)"
    PERFORMER "4 Hero"
    INDEX 01 04:40:00
FILE "track01.mp3" MP3
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "For Corners"
    PERFORMER "Digable Planets"
    INDEX 01 08:20:00
FILE "track01.mp3" MP3
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Funky Sneakers"
    PERFORMER "Willie Bobo"
    INDEX 01 15:20:00
FILE "track01.mp3" MP3
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "Kudu (Re-Work)"
    PERFORMER "Kyoto Jazz Massive"
    INDEX 01 18:20:00
FILE "track01.mp3" MP3
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "Two Jaguars In Warsaw"
    PERFORMER "Auteur Jazz"
    INDEX 01 23:40:00
FILE "track01.mp3" MP3
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "Heaven (West Coast Vibes Remix)"
    PERFORMER "Bitter:Sweet"
    INDEX 01 27:20:00
FILE "track01.mp3" MP3
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "Jazz Combo feat. José James – All or Nothing At All"
    PERFORMER "Nicola Conte"
    INDEX 01 33:15:00
FILE "track01.mp3" MP3
  TRACK 09 AUDIO
    TITLE "Take Five (Nicola Conte Remix)"
    PERFORMER "Roberto Roena"
    INDEX 01 36:40:00
FILE "track01.mp3" MP3
  TRACK 10 AUDIO
    TITLE "Our Love"
    PERFORMER "Luisito"
    INDEX 01 42:00:00
FILE "track01.mp3" MP3
  TRACK 11 AUDIO
    TITLE "Kerma Elastica (Nicola Conte Remix)"
    PERFORMER "Bobby Hughes Combination"
    INDEX 01 48:38:00
FILE "track01.mp3" MP3
  TRACK 12 AUDIO
    TITLE "Nao Falo Portugues Jazz Rework (feat. Fay Lovsky)"
    PERFORMER "Buscemi"
    INDEX 01 55:15:00

Is there a separate API for playing/loading CUE files? Or am I missing something here?

[ventolin]

Anyone? Beginning to lose hope here

[Wimpie]

It's not as easy as that. Kodi doesn't know the .cue format (as far as i know).

You need to read the cue file yourself and parse it into the correct listitem tags, ie:

mylistitems = xbmcgui.ListItem("label string")

Then use : mylistitems.setInfo(), mylistitems.setArt() & mylistitems.setProperty() , ....

This enables you to fill the mylistitems, and you will see that metadata while playing your music.

To play it: xbmc.play(my_music, mylistitems).

[ventolin]

Thanks for the reply! Finally some light at the end of the tunnel

OK, so I was going about this completely the wrong way. So, in your example, I create a bunch of listitems which correspond to the individual songs in the mp3. Then, I call xbmc.play() with the MP3 as the first argument and the listitems as the second argument.

Is that right?

[Wimpie]

I think so. 1 listitem per .mp3. Could be you could do 1 listitem per mp3 playlist, but I haven't done something like that.

Maybe there is some other, better way, but this is how I would try it...

[ventolin]

1 listitem per mp3?

I'm afraid the MP3 contains multiple tracks - which is why I went about generating a CUE sheet for it.

Looking at the Properties that can be set on a ListItem (http://kodi.wiki/view/InfoLabels#ListItem), I don't see a way to, for example, set the start time for individual tracks contained within a single mp3.

[Wimpie]

Try to make a playlist of the .cue file (just a wild idea, don't know for sure this works...).


Alternatively, if the CD is 1 big .mp3, then you can use:

mylistitems.setProperty('StartOffset', str(startplayingfrom))

to set the starttime for individual 'songs' inside one big mp3.


PS: are the mp3's url's (on the net), or are they local? If local, better import them in the musiclibrary...