Cue sheet (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_sheet) A cue sheet, or cue file, is an ASCII (plain text) file that specifies how the tracks of a compact disc should be laid out. Cue sheets commonly have a ".cue" filename extension. They were originally used for the CDRWIN CD recording program, but are also used with other CD software as well as music and video playback software. For an audio CD, the cue sheet can specify titles and performers for the disc and its tracks as well as the names of one or more audio files to be used. MP3, WAV and BIN files are often used, although some programs support other formats. Cue sheets are especially useful when burning or listening to live sets where all tracks are recorded in one file. Cue sheets are also used for many types of CDs in conjunction with an image file. The image file generally has a ".bin" extension. Use for CD burning The CD format allows for rapid skipping to any track on the disc. When the source audio for the CD is one long file, such as a recording of a live performance by a band, it will produce one single track on the CD preventing easy navigation of the CD. A cue sheet provided along with the recording allows certain software to split up the audio into separate tracks when burning the audio to CD. The listener can now skip to individual tracks the way they would be able to had the CD been produced commercially. General listening use More and more people now listen to audio on computers and portable MP3 players, stored as audio files on a hard drive. As such, it is therefore also useful to apply the cue sheet solution to this new playback medium. There are two standard approaches to this. The most universal is to split the original audio file into a series of separate files, one per track. This results in the equivalent of having ripped the CD with all the tracks separate. This works with all audio playback software and hardware, including Apple's popular iTunes and iPod products which cannot handle cue sheets. The other approach is to integrate the current cue sheet into the audio player itself. This involves either providing a pseudo playlist (for example, an extra window) for the contents of the cue sheet, or adding a pseudo entry for each track into the main playlist. When the audio file containing the full performance is played, the cue sheet is opened and its tracks are shown in a special window or the main playlist window. This allows the listener to view which tune within the performance as a whole is presently playing, and to skip to any particular track within the set. Play on Windows PC Winamp with CUE Player Plug-In (in_cue.dll). Winamp 5.3 only works with v0.56 beta. mp3cue Plugin (gen_mp3cue.dll) Play on CD by burning image Nero Burning ROM (on thre Recorder menu Select 'Burn Image to Disk' and load .cue file) CDRWIN Exact Audio Copy Burrrn (freeware) K3b Play with .cue-compatible media players foobar2000 By using foobar2000's Converter plugin, CUE files can be split into individual files of any format. This is handy for those with whole albums in lossless formats which come with cue sheets. Amarok FLAC can embed a whole cuesheet into metadata block of flac audio files Xbox Media Center To cut MP3 files MusiCutter cuts MP3 files using CUE files. For Windows only. mp3splt Open Source mp3 and ogg splitter bchunk BinChunker for Unix / Linux, converts .bin+cue to .iso/.cdr/.wav CueSplitter Splits MP3 files into separate files using CUE file information. Also splits FLAC and APE files (Windows only) CDRCue powerful GUI CUE generator/editor for Windows. QeD The Ultimate Liveset Cuesheet Editor. Especially useful when creating/editing cuesheets for livesets. MP3 Directcut MP3 Directcut (supports Cue-Sheets) . You can find a compleate tutorial including images on my forum: http://mdbmixes.ipbfree.com/index.php?showforum=11