What are common cue sheet errors
Reply #3 – 2012-03-02 11:40:27
The only time a "mistake" could get into a .cue is if it was typed up by hand - Why would anyone do that? I rip vinyl and sometimes manually author cue sheets so these rips can be burned to CD with gaps/indexes, where appropriate. It's possible to enter cue points in a wave editor-type interface, but if I'm going to have to edit the cue sheet to add metadata, I figure why not just write it all by hand. The syntax is not very complicated. Behold:REM COMMENT This manually edited cue sheet is non-compliant (EAC-style) because gaps are in the preceding track's file. REM COMMENT Track divisions correspond to bands visible on the vinyl. Indexes are based on sonic content. REM DATE 1991 PERFORMER "C-Schulz" TITLE "10. Hose Horn" FILE "[A01] C-Schulz - Reis.wav" WAVE TRACK 01 AUDIO TITLE "Reis" PERFORMER "C-Schulz" REM COMMENT Track A01 layout======================================================================================= REM COMMENT 0:00:00 main song REM COMMENT 10:29:08 pause with audible print-through REM COMMENT 10:31:16 1st unbanded, unlisted interlude REM COMMENT 10:50:25 pause with audible print-through REM COMMENT 10:52:32 2nd unbanded, unlisted interlude REM COMMENT 11:01:43 pause REM COMMENT We could give the interludes their own indexes, but then what to do with the pauses before each one? REM COMMENT Give the pauses their own indexes, too? Aren't the non-zero indexes supposed to be for non-pauses? REM COMMENT I guess just make the interludes and the pause before them be index 02. *shrug* REM COMMENT ==================================================================================================== === INDEX 01 00:00:00 INDEX 02 10:29:08 TRACK 02 AUDIO TITLE "Meister" PERFORMER "C-Schulz" INDEX 00 11:01:43 FILE "[A02] C-Schulz - Meister.wav" WAVE INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "[B01] C-Schulz - Ein.wav" WAVE TRACK 03 AUDIO TITLE "Ein" PERFORMER "C-Schulz" PREGAP 00:04:00 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "[B02] C-Schulz - Klang.wav" WAVE TRACK 04 AUDIO TITLE "Klang" PERFORMER "C-Schulz" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "[B03] C-Schulz - Glockenspiel.wav" WAVE TRACK 05 AUDIO TITLE "Glockenspiel" PERFORMER "C-Schulz" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "[B04] C-Schulz - Tri-Top.wav" WAVE TRACK 06 AUDIO TITLE "Tri-Top" PERFORMER "C-Schulz" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "[B05] C-Schulz - Barbapapa.wav" WAVE TRACK 07 AUDIO TITLE "Barbapapa" PERFORMER "C-Schulz" INDEX 01 00:00:00 TRACK 08 AUDIO TITLE "1972" PERFORMER "C-Schulz" INDEX 00 04:05:69 FILE "[B06] C-Schulz - 1972.wav" WAVE INDEX 01 00:00:00 TRACK 09 AUDIO TITLE "KreuzChor" PERFORMER "C-Schulz" INDEX 00 01:05:43 FILE "[B07] C-Schulz - KreuzChor.wav" WAVE INDEX 01 00:00:00 TRACK 10 AUDIO TITLE "Star" PERFORMER "C-Schulz" INDEX 00 01:29:08 FILE "[B08] C-Schulz - Star.wav" WAVE INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "[B09] C-Schulz - Nr.5.wav" WAVE TRACK 11 AUDIO TITLE "Nr.5" PERFORMER "C-Schulz" INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "[B10] C-Schulz - Kurze Flitze.wav" WAVE TRACK 12 AUDIO TITLE "Kurze Flitze" PERFORMER "C-Schulz" INDEX 01 00:00:00 TRACK 13 AUDIO TITLE "Aus" PERFORMER "C-Schulz" INDEX 00 01:40:17 FILE "[B11] C-Schulz - Aus.wav" WAVE INDEX 01 00:00:00 Mistakes can be introduced when editing machine-generated cue sheets. There are many reasons to edit cue sheets, such as:Fixing problems in existing cue sheets (like inaccurate track boundaries) Creating track boundaries where there were none (like for a 1-track DJ mix or live CD) Converting indexes to tracks (or vice-versa) Combining cue sheets Editing or adding metadata (e.g. removing quotation marks) Adding info that wasn't able to be scanned for at rip time Removing a data track (e.g. the cue sheet refers to the data track, but the track wasn't ripped) Removing a Unicode BOM (to help apps that don't recognize it) A few mistakes to watch for:First index for a given track not 00:00:00 (even though in theory this should be OK) unclosed quotation marks (quote mark count on a line must be even, nothing after the last quote) tracks out of sequence (first track must be 01, next 02, next 03, etc.) indexes out of sequence (first must be 00 or 01...) track or index out of range (must be 00 to 99) index times in wrong format (must be MM:SS:FF, SS must be 00 to 59, FF must be 00 to 74) PREGAP and INDEX 00 both given for a track unrecognized instruction (line starts with unknown keyword) Questionable circumstances (what's correct is unclear, maybe issue a warning):quotation marks in the metadata or comments (maybe not allowed) non-CRLF line breaks (no rule, but LF or CR only isn't universally compatible) non-compliant (TRACK changes before next FILE: not allowed, but no other way to handle ordinary file-per track rips) non-ASCII, non-CRLF characters in non-UTF-8 document (no rule, but UTF-8 is de facto standard) Unicode BOM present (it helps identify encoding, but isn't universally supported) blank lines (no rule, I think) Those are just off the top of my head