.CUE

Introduction

A cue sheet is a plain-text file that describes the layout of a CD: its tracks, where each one starts, and their titles and performers. It came from the CDRWIN burning software and is used in two main ways. For audio, a whole album is often kept as one FLAC or WAV file with a cue sheet beside it, so a player can show and play the separate tracks. For disc images, the cue sheet describes the tracks of a .bin image so that burning software or an emulator can rebuild the disc.

Structure

Each line is a command and its values. FILE names the audio or image file and its type (WAVE, MP3, BINARY…). TRACK starts a track with its number and type, such as AUDIO. INDEX 01 gives where the track starts, as minutes:seconds:frames, with 75 frames to a second; INDEX 00 marks a pregap. TITLE and PERFORMER can appear for the whole disc and for each track, and REM lines carry comments and extras such as the genre and date.

PERFORMER "Artist Name"
TITLE "Album Title"
FILE "Album.flac" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "First Song"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Second Song"
    INDEX 01 03:35:12

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