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Is it possible to tell uade123 NOT to loop a music file? I'm trying to batch convert files and using the timeout option doesn't work too well as I end up with short looped songs repeating for far longer than they need to and non-looped songs sometimes getting cut off because of it.

Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 564 Location: Tampere, Finland

Enverex wrote:

Is it possible to tell uade123 NOT to loop a music file? I'm trying to batch convert files and using the timeout option doesn't work too well as I end up with short looped songs repeating for far longer than they need to and non-looped songs sometimes getting cut off because of it.

Generally there are two cases:

1. the player can detect song end -> no looping -> a long enough timeout handles the problem

2. the player can not detect song end -> timeout needed, causes the repeating or cut-off that you mentioned. This case needs to be handled manually. However, it is possible to program a timeout for a specific song by something like this:

Code:

uade123 --set="timeout=x" song.foo

x is the duration of song in seconds. uade remembers timeout value for song.foo after this. millisecond accuracy is not supported, but I could extend the option to support floating point time.

Also, uade123 -1 plays only one subsong per file.