Please help with cue sheet problem

[smackyourfupa]

For the last few days I've been going nuts trying to figure out why I can't get this cue sheet to work properly (with Kodi) when I've created them many times before. It's a custom compilation of DTS tracks from the McCartney DVD's Band on the Run, Venus and Mars and the McCartney Years. It's ALMOST is correct, except that the album title shows up as "SINGLES" and after track 1, the next is also numbered track 1 which is file itself (Paul McCartney & Wings (DTS 5.1 Mix) before continuing to track 2 and so on. The only issue I can think of is the tacks from Band on the Run /Venus & Mars are dts 1510 kb/s 96/24 while the rest are dts 755 kb/s 48/24. I combined them into one single track and included snapshots to better show what I'm trying to explain. Thanks, help is greatly appreciated.


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Name of the file:McCartney & Wings (DTS 5.1 Mix).wav
Name of cue sheet: McCartney & Wings (DTS 5.1 Mix).cue
Here's the actual cue sheet:

REM GENRE Multichannel
REM DATE 1971
REM COMMENT "DTS audio from Band on the Run,
Venus and Mars & The McCartney Years DVD/DTS-CD.
Tracks on the 2025 Wings compilation are omitted"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
TITLE "McCartney & Wings (DTS 5.1 Mix)"
FILE "McCartney & Wings (DTS 5.1 Mix).wav" WAVE

TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Heart of the Country (1971)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 00:00:00

TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Mrs. Vandebilt (1973)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 02:24:00

TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "No Words (1973)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 07:07:00

TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me) (1973)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 09:40:00

TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "Love in Song (1975)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 15:34:00

TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "Magneto and Titanium Man (1975)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 18:39:00

TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "Venus and Mars (Reprise) (1975)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 21:53:00

TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE "Spirits of Ancient Egypt (1975)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 24:03:00

TRACK 09 AUDIO
TITLE "Crossroads (1975)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 27:06:00

TRACK 10 AUDIO
TITLE "Medicine Jar (1975)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 28:07:00

TRACK 11 AUDIO
TITLE "Treat Her Gently / Lonely Old People (1975)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 31:31:00

TRACK 12 AUDIO
TITLE "Wonderful Christmastime (1979)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 36:23:00

TRACK 13 AUDIO
TITLE "Coming Up (1980)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 40:11:00

TRACK 14 AUDIO
TITLE "Waterfalls (1980)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 44:09:00

TRACK 15 AUDIO
TITLE "Ebony and Ivory (w Stevie Wonder) (1982)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 47:42:00

TRACK 16 AUDIO
TITLE "Take It Away (1982)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 51:27:00

TRACK 17 AUDIO
TITLE "Tug of War (1982)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 55:28:00

TRACK 18 AUDIO
TITLE "Pipes of Peace (1983)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 59:30:00

TRACK 19 AUDIO
TITLE "Say Say Say (Edit) (w Michael Jackson) (1983)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 62:57:00

TRACK 20 AUDIO
TITLE "So Bad (1983)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 66:39:00

TRACK 21 AUDIO
TITLE "No More Lonely Nights (1984)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 69:57:00

TRACK 22 AUDIO
TITLE "Spies Like Us (1985)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 74:05:00

TRACK 23 AUDIO
TITLE "Press (1986)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 77:24:00

TRACK 24 AUDIO
TITLE "Pretty Little Head (1986)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 82:05:00

TRACK 25 AUDIO
TITLE "Once Upon a Long Ago (1987)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 86:01:00

TRACK 26 AUDIO
TITLE "Figure of Eight (1989)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 90:13:00

TRACK 27 AUDIO
TITLE "My Brave Face (1989)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 95:23:00

TRACK 28 AUDIO
TITLE "Put It There (1989)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 98:41:00

TRACK 29 AUDIO
TITLE "This One (1989)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 100:49:00

TRACK 30 AUDIO
TITLE "All My Trials (1990)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 105:01:00

TRACK 31 AUDIO
TITLE "Biker Like an Icon (1993)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 108:23:00

TRACK 32 AUDIO
TITLE "C'Mon People (1993)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 111:52:00

TRACK 33 AUDIO
TITLE "Hope of Deliverance (1993)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 117:38:00

TRACK 34 AUDIO
TITLE "Off the Ground (1993)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 121:00:00

TRACK 35 AUDIO
TITLE "Beautiful Night (1997)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 124:58:00

TRACK 36 AUDIO
TITLE "Little Willow (1997)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 129:56:00

TRACK 37 AUDIO
TITLE "Brown Eyed Handsome Man (1999)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 133:00:00

TRACK 38 AUDIO
TITLE "No Other Baby (1999)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 135:30:00

TRACK 39 AUDIO
TITLE "Fine Line (2005)"
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
INDEX 01 139:49:00

[hello_hello]

I've no idea if it's a problem because I'm quite cue-less, but I just asked foobar2000 to convert an album's worth of tracks to a single file and the cue sheet it created looks like this. The "Performer" info isn't repeated, but for all I know it doesn't matter.....

PERFORMER "B-52's, The"
TITLE "Cosmic Thing"
FILE "B-52's, The - Cosmic Thing.mp3" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Bushfire"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Channel Z"
    INDEX 01 04:57:13
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Cosmic Thing"
    INDEX 01 09:46:13
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Deadbeat Club"
    INDEX 01 13:37:25
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "Dry County"
    INDEX 01 18:22:37
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "Follow Your Bliss"
    INDEX 01 23:15:58
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "June Bug"
    INDEX 01 27:24:07
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "Love Shack"
    INDEX 01 32:28:38
  TRACK 09 AUDIO
    TITLE "Roam"
    INDEX 01 37:49:66
  TRACK 10 AUDIO
    TITLE "Topaz"
    INDEX 01 42:43:29

[hello_hello]

I made a fake file and tried loading your cue sheet. Foobar2000 wasn't interested while the Comment field was multi-line. Once I changed it to a single line the cue sheet appeared to load okay. I've no idea if multi-line lines are allowed.

REM GENRE Multichannel
REM DATE 1971
REM COMMENT "DTS audio from Band on the Run, Venus and Mars & The McCartney Years DVD/DTS-CD. Tracks on the 2025 Wings compilation are omitted."
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
TITLE "McCartney & Wings (DTS 5.1 Mix)"
FILE "McCartney & Wings (DTS 5.1 Mix).wav" WAVE

[smackyourfupa]

Amazing dude, it works. I've been messing with this for 2 days and don't get it because I have close to 10 cue sheets formatted exactly like this one and they all work as they should. Now I just have to find a way to get the GENRE in there. Thank you so much!

To figure out what was causing it not to work, each line not included in your example was added one by one...

REM GENRE Multichannel: worked

REM DATE 1971: worked

REM COMMENT "DTS audio from Band on the Run,
Venus and Mars & The McCartney Years DVD/DTS-CD.
Tracks on the 2025 Wings compilation are omitted":

Screwed it up again. Something in the REM COMMENT section was causing it to mess up.

[hello_hello]

Can you have more than one comment in a cue sheet? I don't know and I haven't tried it myself, but maybe try something like:

REM COMMENT "DTS audio from Band on the Run,"
REM COMMENT "Venus and Mars & The McCartney Years DVD/DTS-CD."
REM COMMENT "Tracks on the 2025 Wings compilation are omitted."

Just a guess...

[smackyourfupa]

I made a fake file and tried loading your cue sheet. Foobar2000 wasn't interested while the Comment field was multi-line. Once I changed it to a single line the cue sheet appeared to load okay. I've no idea if multi-line lines are allowed.

REM GENRE Multichannel
REM DATE 1971
REM COMMENT "DTS audio from Band on the Run, Venus and Mars & The McCartney Years DVD/DTS-CD. Tracks on the 2025 Wings compilation are omitted."
PERFORMER "Paul McCartney & Wings"
TITLE "McCartney & Wings (DTS 5.1 Mix)"
FILE "McCartney & Wings (DTS 5.1 Mix).wav" WAVE

Multi line Comments field was definitely the issue...
Wondering though, is it possible to have more than one Genre?
... and the answer is no, at least none I can get working.

[hello_hello]

I'm starting to understand a little more about cue sheets now. From what I've read, the original cue sheet specification is fairly limited so REM is used to add extra info as a comment, and some programs support certain information while some actually create non conforming cue sheets they'll happily read themselves.
I noticed while I was playing around yesterday that foobar2000 will add ReplayGain info to cue sheets if a file already contains it, adding the information to each track as a comment. It looked something like this if I remember correctly.

PERFORMER "B-52's, The"
TITLE "Cosmic Thing"
FILE "B-52's, The - Cosmic Thing.mp3" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Bushfire"
    REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN <value>
    REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK <value>
    REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN <value>
    REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK <value>
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Channel Z"
    REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN <value>
    REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK <value>
    REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN <value>
    REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK <value>
    INDEX 01 04:57:13
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Cosmic Thing"
    REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN <value>
    REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK <value>
    REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN <value>
    REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK <value>
    INDEX 01 09:46:13

So you could possibly add
REM GENRE <value>
to each track if they're different.
I assume a program may or may not support reading it correctly, but you can only try.

I couldn't find any reference to adding multiple values to any type of field though. I would've started out trying something like:
REM GENRE "Pop","Rock"
or maybe
REM GENRE Pop;Rock

Although I did read that some programs will ignore anything following a semi-colon in a cue sheet as a comment.
; Just commenting
and apparently there's one program that ignores the following as a comment.
// Just commenting

Does the program you're using have any info explaining what it's supposed to support?

[smackyourfupa]

I'm starting to understand a little more about cue sheets now. From what I've read, the original cue sheet specification is fairly limited so REM is used to add extra info as a comment, and some programs support certain information while some actually create non conforming cue sheets they'll happily read themselves.
I noticed while I was playing around yesterday that foobar2000 will add ReplayGain info to cue sheets if a file already contains it, adding the information to each track as a comment. It looked something like this if I remember correctly.

PERFORMER "B-52's, The"
TITLE "Cosmic Thing"
FILE "B-52's, The - Cosmic Thing.mp3" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Bushfire"
    REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN <value>
    REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK <value>
    REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN <value>
    REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK <value>
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Channel Z"
    REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN <value>
    REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK <value>
    REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN <value>
    REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK <value>
    INDEX 01 04:57:13
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Cosmic Thing"
    REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN <value>
    REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK <value>
    REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN <value>
    REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK <value>
    INDEX 01 09:46:13

So you could possibly add
REM GENRE <value>
to each track if they're different.
I assume a program may or may not support reading it correctly, but you can only try.

I couldn't find any reference to adding multiple values to any type of field though. I would've started out trying something like:
REM GENRE "Pop","Rock"
or maybe
REM GENRE Pop;Rock

Although I did read that some programs will ignore anything following a semi-colon in a cue sheet as a comment.
; Just commenting
and apparently there's one program that ignores the following as a comment.
// Just commenting

Does the program you're using have any info explaining what it's supposed to support?

The program I'm using is Kodi. I'd simply just like to have two Genres for this one specific compilation (Multichannel & Rock) but there seems no way to make it work. Not a big deal as I'm just glad it's finally working as it should.