Debian Bug report logs - #884101
cuetools: fails to convert .toc file generated by cdrdao (syntax error around # character)

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jonathan Dowland <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: cuetools: fails to convert .toc file generated by cdrdao (syntax error around # character)

Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:37:33 +0000

Package: cuetools
Version: 1.4.0-2+b1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

cdrdao 1:1.2.3-3 is spitting out TOC files with lines like the following

    // Track 2
    TRACK AUDIO
    NO COPY
    PRE_EMPHASIS
    TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
    SILENCE 00:02:00
    FILE "quake_v1.01.bin" #33964032 0 05:08:29
    START 00:02:00

That hash-number on the FILE line corresponds to the byte offset for the track
(33964032 is the number of bytes of track 1 which is a data track). However this
syntax is not described in the cdrdao(1) manpage.

cueconvert complains about it

    12: syntax error
    bad character '#'
    ...

I'm filing this here because I guess cdrdao gets to invent its own file format
and is the arbiter of what is valid or not, but this could just as well be a bug
in cdrdao for not documenting a change to the format, if that's what has happened.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (700, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages cuetools depends on:
ii  libc6           2.24-11
ii  python-mutagen  1.36-1

Versions of packages cuetools recommends:
ii  flac          1.3.2-1
ii  vorbis-tools  1.4.0-10+b1

cuetools suggests no packages.

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Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jonathan Dowland <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: it *did* generate a CUE file

Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:42:07 +0000

I should add it has written out a cue file, but the indexes are
obviously wrong 

...
TRACK 02 AUDIO
FLAGS PRE
INDEX 00 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:16

TRACK 03 AUDIO
FLAGS PRE
INDEX 00 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:25
...

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Message #15 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jonathan Rubenstein <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: cuetools: fails to convert .toc file generated by cdrdao (syntax error around # character)

Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:33:43 -0500

I just tried using cuetag, and got a rapid slew of

> 10: syntax error

We find this on line 10

  08 |     TITLE "Matka"
  09 |     PERFORMER "A-Men"
>>10 |     SIZE_INFO { 0,  1, 15,  0, 46,  8,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,
  11 |                 0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  3, 56,  0,  0,  0,
  12 |                 0,  0,  0,  0,  9,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0}

Removing this field and the following lines 11 and 12 allowed cuetag to 
work.

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