Splits a cue file into multiple audio files.

Motivation

I recently found myself in a situation where I had a single audio file and a cue file that described the audio file. I wanted to split the audio file into multiple audio files based on the cue file. I found a few tools that could do this, but they were either not free, buggy, slow or not available on my platform. So I decided to write my own tool that could do this.

How it works

Reads the cue file and splits the referenced audio file into multiple audio files based on the information in the cue file, utilizing ffmpeg.

Run the application

Prerequisites

• ffmpeg must be in the path of the system.

Installation

Download the latest release for your system from the releases page:

# Assuming you run a x86/x64 system, if not adjust the binary name to download 
LATEST_VERSION=$(curl -L -s -H 'Accept: application/json' https://github.com/RouHim/cue-splatter/releases/latest | \
sed -e 's/.*"tag_name":"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/') && \
curl -L -o cue-splatter https://github.com/RouHim/cue-splatter/releases/download/$LATEST_VERSION/cue-splatter-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl && \
chmod +x cue-splatter

It's just a static binary, so you can place it anywhere in your system. It updates itself, so no need for a package manager.

Example usage

The following example will split the audio file referenced in the cue file, into multiple audio files based on the track information, specified in the cue sheet.

./cue-splatter "path/to/cue/file.cue"

You can also point to folders, which are processed recursively.

./cue-splatter "path/to/some/album a" "another/path/album b"

Container usage

There is also a container image available, that can be used to run the application in a containerized environment.

docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/workdir docker.io/rouhim/cue-splatter:latest /workdir

Development

To build the project, you need to have Rust installed.

How to build

cargo build --release

How to run

cargo run -- "path/to/cue/file.cue"