Cuesheet

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The cuesheet [ 'kju: ʃi: t ] is a text file that normally contains metadata (e.g. track length, total playing time) about images of compact discs that are needed to put them on a CD -R to be able to burn. The cuesheet format was developed around 1995 by the programmers of the CDRWIN software . It still supports this format today.

distribution

Some audio players , such as B. VLC media player , Foobar2000 , DeaDBeeF or Clementine support the playback of images with cuesheets as if a normal audio CD were available. Additional metadata may be used that are not required for simply burning a CD. These lines of text with the other metadata begin with the characters REM , which means they are actually marked as a comment ( English remark ). This means that the lines from burning programs are ignored, which means that the cuesheets remain compatible despite the additional metadata.

Bin / Cue files, usually with the filename extension .cue, are often supported as input by programs that host virtual CD drives . With their help, ISO images can be created from these files .

example

In the following example, the CD-ROM is generated from the "IMAGE.BIN" file. The data there is binary data (raw data) and not audio data . 

FILE "IMAGE.BIN" BINARY
  TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

A track is written (common with data CDs) in mode 1 . Although this mode only knows 2048 bytes of user data , the data in the file is apparently already available with all sector numbers and error correction data and therefore takes up 2352 bytes per sector.

Example cuesheet

The following example of a cuesheet contains the titles of the individual tracks as well as their artist and the respective replay gain values. If software and hardware (CD burner) are able to do this, the title and artist are saved in the CD-Text of the CD during the burning process . 

PERFORMER "BSO, William Steinberg"
TITLE "Also Sprach Zarathustra - Die Planeten"
REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN -5.24 dB
REM REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_PEAK 0.999938
FILE "Also sprach Zarathustra - Die Planeten.wav" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Also sprach Zarathustra - Einleitung"
    PERFORMER "BSO, William Steinberg"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
    REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN -6.27 dB
    REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 0.999938
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Also sprach Zarathustra - Von den Hinterwäldlern"
    PERFORMER "BSO, William Steinberg"
    INDEX 00 01:52:56
    INDEX 01 02:00:28
    REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN +0.93 dB
    REM REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_PEAK 0.724884
    ...

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