Audacious

Fedora 22 / audacious 3.6.2

Audacious has had support for cuesheets for a while: it can add and play songs from a cuesheet into a playlist, and can now scan cuesheets while building the library.

Cuesheet parsing has a problem though: cuesheet files support both the Name of the Album as well as the Name of each Song. When adding songs from a cuesheet to a playlist (or scanning cuesheets into the library) Audacious ignores the name of the album that's present in the cuesheet and silently replaces it with the name of the directory where the album is.

Spec: http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Cue_sheet

This issue has been present for at least 2 years since I found it reported by someone here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/audacious/+bug/1274200

In addition to Album title, Audacious also ignores the "REM DATE" (year) and "REM GENRE" tags. These are tags extracted by EAC, Rubyripper and all other CD rippers out there.

Example:

REM GENRE Classical
REM DATE 1996
REM DISCID 8D12A50A
CATALOG 0028944693621
PERFORMER "Schubert; Alfred Brendel"
TITLE "Complete Piano Works (Brendel) CD1 - Klaviersonaten a-moll, A-Dur, a-moll, 16 Deutsche Taenze"
FILE "Image.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Sonata in A minor, D. 537 - 1. Allegro, ma non troppo"
PERFORMER "Schubert; Alfred Brendel"
ISRC NLA508116801
INDEX 00 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:32
TRACK 02 AUDIO
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