How can I ignore CUE sheets?

[xenocoder]

Hi all,

Apologies if this is already somewhere else. I didn't see it in the setup guide, forum searches, or Google... ChatGPT said I can toggle Moode to ignore them but I could not find that feature. 

Is there a setting or way to have Moode ignore cue files? I believe you can do it manually in an .mpdignore file, but I thought there might be a program setting. Thank you for any help you may be able to give! 

Running two Pis, one with 9.2.5 2025-02-23, and one with 8.3.9 2024-02-23. I don't see it in either version.

[Nutul]

You can go to Configure => library, and at the bottom you have a toggle switch that will do what you want.
The question, though, is why do you want that? Nowadays CUE sheets do work; me and Tim spent some time in actually fixing their behavior.

Mind: they do work if they are used as they are meant to: indexing a single audio file with "timestamps" where the songs begin.
If they're being used as a sort of m3u file, there could be issues (although I do not think so...). MPD manages them pretty well, so that if an audio file is present in the CUE sheet, it won't be treated as a single file too, and duplicates should be automatically avoided.

[xenocoder]

You can go to Configure => library, and at the bottom you have a toggle switch that will do what you want.
The question, though, is why do you want that? Nowadays CUE sheets do work; me and Tim spent some time in actually fixing their behavior.

Mind: they do work if they are used as they are meant to: indexing a single audio file with "timestamps" where the songs begin.
If they're being used as a sort of m3u file, there could be issues (although I do not think so...). MPD manages them pretty well, so that if an audio file is present in the CUE sheet, it won't be treated as a single file too, and duplicates should be automatically avoided.

Thanks, That's a great question, and the issue I'm having is exactly what you described: cue sheets acting strangely for individual files. I use XLD to rip my CDs and have it create a log and cue file. It works fine in the version 8 setup I have, but I was seeing a lot of issues on the setup running 9. Zero or incorrect length songs, etc. When I removed the cue files Moode picks up the correct metadata from the individual tracks. 

Thank you again pointing me to the toggle switch. I can't believe I missed that :facepalm.

[Nutul]

When I removed the cue files Moode picks up the correct metadata from the individual tracks. 

That's the typical error: using CUEs like they were m3u playlist files. (I cannot for the life of me figure out WHY a ripping software would do that...)

If you rip to single tracks, then you do not need any CUE at all - CUE files are not meant to be used like that!.
You can just copy the ripped tracks ONLY, over to moOde, and NOT the CUE...

OTOH, if you rip the whole CD as a SINGLE file + CUE then everything would work (depending on whether your ripping software can do that, of course)