Cue sheet

Cue sheets are used to provide index information for a large audio file. Cue sheets have the file extension ".cue", and are simple plain text files.

Cue sheets are especially useful for DJ mixes where the resulting audio file is one long mp3. With a tracklist a cue sheet can be created that will allow you to access the tracks very easily. Remember though: cue sheets only work with compatible software.

Playing Cue sheets

Cue sheets are only useful if you can play them! Here is a list of compatible software players:

• Foobar2000 has native support for cue sheets (Windows)

• Winamp
  • Cue Player Plugin for Winamp (Windows)
  • mp3cue Plugin for Winamp (Windows)

Its better off using cue sheets and the great thing is that there is this plugin that plays cue sheets in winamp. Here are very good cue sheets plugin for the latest winamp:

• mp3cue (Linux/XMMS)

• MPlayer (Windows/MPlayer) & (Linux/MPlayer)
• 1by1 player (Windows/1by1)
• Amarok (Linux/Amarok)
• Ogg Frog (to be released in Feb. 2007)

Well, for the plugins all you gotta do is to have the cue and the mp3 file in the same folder -

• for most players just drag the cue sheet inside the main or playlist window, and it works just fine
• for the mp3cue plugin it's different - here u drag the mp3 file inside the Winamp windows and the cue will open in a separate window

All plugins will show up the track name, and at the end of each track it will keep on playing without any gaps at the end of song, coz it will keep on going smoothly throughout the whole mix, coz you gotta remember its playing one mp3.

Creating cue-sheets

You can always use these tools such as CueMaster, to edit & create cue sheets, here are the links for that:

• Liveset cue-sheet editor
• cue master - cues from CDDB/FreeDB entries
• cue generator
• cuesheet compiler
• another cue generator
• cue maker
• convert CD descriptions into cues
• CD Wave, instructions for creating cue sheets with CD Wave

Most cue sites with cue-sheet generators also allow the upload of cues in this way building cue-sheet collections.

Finding cue-sheets

Here are some good websites to help ya search for cue sheets:

• Cue Sheet Heaven
• Trainspotted
• Spandel
• lindmiks cuesite
• anugas cuesite

Burning cue-sheets to an audio CD

• Burrrn does the best job

Looking for tracklistings (as a precondition for preparing cues)

Sometimes you will find a few cues as well...

• FreeDB
• Tracklistings.net
• Essential Mix Tracklistings
• TranceAddict tracklistings
• Tracklistings Progressive/Breaks
• And check for more on our Links page as well.

Misc

CUE_Tools

Also check the Wikipedia entry for more info on the cue-sheet syntax and for some info about using cue-sheets with CD images [1]!