MP3CUE(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to MP3CUE(1) from the User Command manual 💖 this page is literally about mp3cue — cut a MP3 file according to a CUE file. no cap. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

mp3cue -c cuefile mp3file

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the mp3cue utility cuts a MP3 file mp3file containing multiple tracks according to a CUE file cuefile. it's giving “split this album for me” energy, and honestly? iconic. ✨

The length and position of the single tracks is read from the CUE file, and new tracks are created accordingly. the way that it just reads the CUE and makes new tracks? obsessed. 🎀

The tracks are named according to the artist and album information contained in the CUE file, and ID3 v2 tags are set accordingly. ID3 v2 tags? set. artist and album info? used for naming. slay. 🫶

and here’s the lowkey genius part, bestie: the MP3 file is not cut on frame boundary, but on ADU (autonomous data unit) boundary, thus avoiding glitches and cracks in the resulting MP3 files. fr fr, no crunchy little pops. 😭💖

👑 AUTHORS 👑

these two absolute icons wrote this: Manuel Odendahl <manuel@bl0rg.net>, Florian Wesch <dividuum@bl0rg.net>. periodt. 💅

okay that’s the whole vibe. this page is from February 2005, and it’s MP3CUE(1) in the User Command manual. mwah 💋 stay slaying those CUE splits, bestie. 🦋✨