andreapavoni / rbcue2txt

Parses cue files from Rekordbox's recordings to produce readable, markdown-friendly playlists.

RbCue2Txt

Parses cue files from Rekordbox's recordings to produce readable, markdown-friendly playlists.

I needed a similar utility, I've seen there are many of them out there, but I wanted to make a more portable one while playing with Rust.

Usage

rbcue2txt <path to cue file>

By default, it will output the playlist in this format:

- [00:00:02] Giuseppe Surace - Shot You Down (Original Mix)
- [00:03:06] Aldo Cadiz - Tzu-Mani
...
- [00:57:02] Super Flu - Super Flu 3 < Isaac

And in markdown it would look like this:

• [00:00:02] Giuseppe Surace - Shot You Down (Original Mix)
• [00:03:06] Aldo Cadiz - Tzu-Mani

...

• [00:57:02] Super Flu - Super Flu 3 < Isaac

However, you can also pass a desired output format as second argument, by following these rules:

• %A: artist name
• %T: time
• %N: title

So, for example, calling rbcue2txt <path to cue file> "%A - %N" will produce this output:

Giuseppe Surace - Shot You Down (Original Mix)
Aldo Cadiz - Tzu-Mani
...
Super Flu - Super Flu 3 < Isaac

Notes

Tested against Rekordbox 6 cue sheets on MacOS.

Installation

Precompiled binaries

Download the binary for your platform from https://github.com/andreapavoni/rbcue2txt/releases.

From sources

• clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/andreapavoni/rbcue2txt.git
• cd into the directory: cd rbcue2txt
• test: cargo test
• build: cargo build --release
• Move the binary to /usr/local/bin: mv target/release/rbcue2txt /usr/local/bin/rbcue2txt

Credits

The authors of rekordbox-cue-to-txt for their original work in JS.

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