Phasic Flux

On Friday & had a quite eventful day involving a bunch of lucky and happy coincidences, along with an amazing spurt of ultra-productivity!  Although it was an interesting day, that’s not what this post is about.

At one point, I was working on creating a CUE sheet for episode 004 and realized that GoldWave was clobbering all the PERFORMER attributes for every track in the original CUE sheet I imported!  That was definitely no good, and really irritated me at the time.

My current workflow for CUE-ing a mix is as follows:

1. Export tracks from Traktor to a directory (ie: “~/Music/LyraPhase/004″), then make sure tracks are in order & named in the format: 01 – Artist – Trackname.mp3
2. Make a tracklist text file:
   ~/Music/LyraPhase/004$ ls -l --color=never > LyraPhase_004.txt
3. Run my magical script to generate a CUE file with empty INDEX points:
   ~/Music/LyraPhase/004$ tracklist2cue.pl LyraPhase_004.txt
NOTE: all tracks have initial cutpoints of 00:00:00
Opening tracklist file: LyraPhase_004.txt
Writing cue file to: ./LyraPhase_004.cue
4. Import the blank CUE file into GoldWave, listen, do audio processing stuff, then edit the track INDEX points.
5. Save the wav & CUE files.
6. Find out some extra stuff is gone after GoldWave got through with it

Enter perl:

So since I really like GoldWave otherwise, I decided to go dust off my monk robes & dive into perl again.  The initial goal was to be able to read in the 2 CUE sheets, copy INDEX points from one to the other, and then save it again.  I also have been thinking about other things in the future I may want to do with CUE sheets, so I decided to try to find some perl code to do what I wanted.

After a search, I found a module on CPAN called Audio::Cuefile::Parser which really didn’t do everything I wanted, or fully support the entire CUE file specification as per the documentation here.

After 1.5 days worth of hacking at it, I’ve successfully got 1/2 of the problem solved.  So far my Audio::Cuefile::ParserPlus module will happily read in CUE sheets and print out the track information for you.  The next step is to make a file output method, which should be simple now that the hard part of parsing in things via regex is finished ^_^

Current code snapshot can be found at my GitHub Repository
Happy Hacking  ^_^

- DJ Phasic

Here’s the first episode of the radio show! I finished (re-re-)recording it finally, and even took some time to make a cue sheet for it ^_^

I wanted to release it also in FLAC format on a separate podcast feed, however git’s current bugginess is preventing me from doing so at the moment. (see: http://www.josefsipek.net/blahg/?p=219 )

Tracklist:
01) Tarrentella/Redanka - Killerloop 'Organism'
02) Pig & Dan - Eiffel Nights (Original Mix)
03) Sultan & Ned Shepard Feat Stereomovers - Connected (Dub)
04) Stu Hirst - Big Rooms Bigger Tunes (Original)
05) Simon & Shaker - Zero (Original Mix)
06) Spider and Legaz - Psych
07) Twotrups - The Cello Track (Dub One Mix)
08) Sebastian Drums Tom Geiss and Eric G - Funky Beep (Original Mix)
09) Eelke Kleijn - Luigi's Magic Mushroom
10) Da'Other - Viva La Vida (Unplugged Mix)
11) Acquaviva & Maddox - Feedback (Valentino Kanzyani Earresistable Mix)
12) Eelke Kleijn - 8 Bit Era (Dub)

cuesheet: http://lyraphase.com/mp3/LyraPhase/001/DJ_Phasic_-_LyraPhase_001_-_0Day.mp3.cue

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