CUETools is a tool for lossless audio/CUE sheet format conversion. The goal is to make sure the album image is preserved accurately. A lossless disc image must be lossless not only in preserving contents of the audio tracks, but also in preserving gaps and CUE sheet contents. Many applications lose vital information upon conversion, and don't support all possible CUE sheet styles. For example, foobar2000 loses disc pre-gap information when converting an album image, and doesn't support gaps appended (noncompliant) CUE sheets.

Supported formats

Supports WAV, FLAC, APE, LossyWAV and WavPack audio input/output. ALAC is supported for input only. Audio must be 16-bit, 44.1kHz samples stereo (i.e. CD PCM). Supports every imaginable CUE sheet style (embedded, single file, gaps appended/prepended/left out). It is also possible to process a set of audio files in a directory without a CUE sheet, or use a RAR archive as an input without unpacking it.

AccurateRip support

Since version 1.9.2, CUETools can verify album images using AccurateRip database. ARCue and TripleFLAC were an inspiration. The unique feature of CUETools AccurateRip verification is offset detection. Rip that was made without offset correction can still be verified against the database, offset can be found and corrected.

Supported platforms

CUETools is a .NET application, written in C#. Processor dependent plugins are included for 32 bit (x86) and 64 bit (x64) Windows versions. .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 and Visual C++ 2008 runtimes are required. Users report they have been able to use it under linux, using Mono, but in this scenario only WAV audio is supported, as other codecs are not yet ported to C#.

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