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Jul 25 2004, 02:44

QUOTE (ChristianHJW @ Jul 24 2004, 06:41 AM)

QUOTE (Pamel @ Jul 24 2004, 06:42 AM)

You could technically do the 4 CDs into a single MKA file. The 'proper' way to do it though would be to have an audio track for each CD, and break up songs by chapters as chapters can be applied to individual tracks instead of the whole file. However, I am not really sure if the fb2k plugin would like this at all.

I fully agree with Pamel here, the proper way to get a 4 CD album into a single MKA file would be to create 4 separate audio tracks in the MKA file ( similar to the video files with separate tracks for each language ).

Only the fb2k plugin must be updated, so that it will allow to select the right audio track.

Ignoring it not working with the fb2k plugin (yet), how would I tie different chapter xml files to different tracks in mkvmerge gui? Would this be through timecodes (but that looks for text files, not not xml files, so I assume that's for something different).

goldenear

Jul 29 2004, 23:23

QUOTE (Pamel @ Jul 23 2004, 10:42 PM)

I don't agree with you: to have 4 tracks would mean that the mka file will have a 4 time superior bitrate. 4 Tracks is only useful if you want to play this track in parellel and easily switch from one to an other and that's not what we want here:

4 tracks :

Track 1: |----disc1/song1----|----disc1/song2----|----...
Track 2: |----disc2/song1----|----disc2/song2----|----...
Track 3: |----disc3/song1----|----disc3/song2----|----...
Track 4: |----disc4/song1----|----disc4/song2----|----...

and we want :

Track: ||----disc1/song1----|----disc1/song2----|...||----disc2/song1----|----disc2/song2----|...||----disc3/song1----|----...

So to do it, we have to happend the audio files of the 4 discs to get a big audio file.
This big audio file will be used as an audio track is the mka file.
The mka file will have 4 "EditionEntry", one for each disc.
Each "EditionEntry" will have a "MEDIA_PART" tag according to http://www.matroska.org/technical/specs/tagging/index.html

This way we can have a whole CDs set in a single mka file

caveman

Aug 11 2004, 15:14

I have been successful in creating the images. getting the MKA file to open in foobat as seperate tracks, but.
I acnt see the option in foobar to change the tags the way that is mentioned in the opening post. Help please, what might I be missing.

Found the answer Ta

robUx4

Aug 11 2004, 15:56

The tag system has been cleaned recently and new softwares to support all this is coming soon.

scooley

Aug 8 2006, 22:42

OMG!!!! I'm so irritated with this matroska file I have. I've managed to extract the attachments but that's it. I'm going to post a small example of the output of mkvinfo, and ask for some help with the commands to extract the files:

CODE

I've tried to apply the examples in the documentation to the values I get here, but apparently I'm doing it wrong somehow. What command would I use to rip track 01? Is there a command to rip all tracks?

By the way, it is supposedly encoded in flac, if that matters.

scooley

Aug 8 2006, 23:10

Ok, made some progress. Don't ask about the error, it was stupid. Here is my new situation:

CODE

mkvextract tracks file.mka 404548193:01.flac --no-ogg
progress: 100%

so it looks like it worked, but there is no file with the name "01.flac". In fact, no new file was created at all! is there something wrong with my command?

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