Storing a whole album in MKA

[Atamido]

I would like to keep the Matroska Q&A specific to the nature of Matroska right now, so I'm answering this here.
Originally posted by DaveQB
this sounds good and useful, but if anyone is like me, they will not know what you mean/how this is done exactly.
So someone has all the songs off their favourite CD into one directory, then whats the next step?
Or is this not possible yet?? It requires an app to do this i assume?
Currently the only application that can create audio-only MKA's is mkvmerge. It is a command line based utility that can import different file formats to Matroska, and also merge the resulting Matroska files. The latest version was just released (0.4.4) and the GUI for it has not been updated yet for the new command options.

I will hold off on explaining how to do this until the GUI is updated as that will be the easier way for most people to create them. Also, the code for the tags is being reworked, so right now you would have tagless files.

[DaveQB]

ahhh just found this thread :)

thats cool,
but i thought there was only a Linux release of mkvmerge?
maybe i should research this tool or wait for the GUI
or get my Red Hat install working again ...

[DaveQB]

well i used mkvmerge to put three songs off the radio into an .mka file,
worked quite easy, first go,
then playback:
WinAMP didnt play back,
Zoomplayer did, funnily enough,

it doesnt jump to the next track on its own though, need a right click and change audio track, but does work

PS mkv files playback fine, using 4.3.0

[ChristianHJW]

Originally posted by DaveQB WinAMP didnt play back

Dave, there is no winamp plugin for matroska files yt, and in fact this will be a hard thing to do, as our plugin had to emulate winamp itself to be able to use the existing decoder plugins ( or we use the existing DShow decoder filters for that ) ...

[DaveQB]

oh ok,
so what should i use to play back audio (mka) files?? TCMP ??
anything else supported??

i have the 4.3.0 verison mkxds.dll registered on my system

PS hahaha, playng back with TCMP all the audio tracks play at once, sounds hmmm interesting.

[ChristianHJW]

Originally posted by DaveQB so what should i use to play back audio (mka) files?? TCMP ?? anything else supported??

Dave, Gabest' Mediaplayer Classic ( MPC ) from http://sf.net/projects/guliverkli is your first choice, because its the only player i know of that can switch the audio streams in MKA files, but only when using his own matroska splitter filter AFAIK ....

About Zoomplayer, are you sure it can switch audio streams in MKA already :confused: ???


EDIT :

BTW, in future you will be able to attach files to the MKA, like cover jpg's or lyrics. Also, if the same audio compression format is used for all tracks ( MP3, AAC, Vorbis, whatever ) you may also make one big audio track from it, and separate the songs by chapter entries ( not implemented yet ). This will force you to use the same codec and settings, but also allow gapless playback ...

[DaveQB]

Originally posted by ChristianHJW
Dave, Gabest' Mediaplayer Classic ( MPC ) from http://sf.net/projects/guliverkli is your first choice, because its the only player i know of that can switch the audio streams in MKA files, but only when using his own matroska splitter filter AFAIK ....


ok, i find his splitter (and muxer) in an .ax format, and i am afraid i am not sure what to do with an 'ax' file :(


About Zoomplayer, are you sure it can switch audio streams in MKA already :confused: ???

yep it certainly did, played fine too, no hiccups in playing them back and switching as you went.

it did crash when i did something, cant recall, but i was asking it to do a bit more then just playback


EDIT :

BTW, in future you will be able to attach files to the MKA, like cover jpg's or lyrics. Also, if the same audio compression format is used for all tracks ( MP3, AAC, Vorbis, whatever ) you may also make one big audio track from it, and separate the songs by chapter entries ( not implemented yet ). This will force you to use the same codec and settings, but also allow gapless playback ...

looking forward to that :D
PS the example i ran thru Zoom Player was 3 .ogg files

[unmei]

at least zoom player switches nicely between 3 audio tracks in a video, so why should it not switch in a mka, which i suppose is about the same minus video ^^
3 ogg streams too, ranging from ~60 ..~120 kbit/s, stereo not 5.1

[ssjkakaroto]

OT: pamel can you just explain how do i use this new TID on --cues iframes for example, cuz no matter where i put this number i'm getting "Error: Invalid cues option. No track ID specified"

tia

reply (didnt want to create another post :p): thx a lot pamel it was the : that i was missing

[Atamido]

Yeah, off-topic....

An example of a command line where you want to have cues for only the i-frames of a video track from an AVI is:
mkvmerge -o output.mkv --cues 0:iframes input1.aviOf course, as the helpfile states, it is default to have only i-frame cues for a video track, and no cues for audio tracks.

[DaveQB]

hmm tried mplayerc.exe but to no avail

1) it crashes if i try and open the file menu, all other menu etc are fine,
2) after using the CLI to get it playing files, my .mka file plays back but with no sound, but the right timeline, i loaded Gabest filter through the options, but no diff