CueFix

CueFix is simple command-line tool to fix CUE files which are popular in lossless audio / albums.

CueFix provides the following functionalities:

• automatically detect encoding of CUE file: GB2312, GBK, GB18030, UTF-8, UTF-8 BOM, and SHIFT-JIS
• convert encoding of CUE file: support GB2312, UTF-8, UTF-8 BOM, etc.
• convert newline format of CUE file: support Windows CRLF and Unix LF
• scan the directory and fix not matched audio file in CUE file
• backup the original CUE file so that users can revert the CUE file back
• interactive with users to verify fixed CUE files

Please feel free to fork and contribute to the project if you like.

Installation

Prerequisites

The following dependencies are necessary:

• Python 3.6 or above

Option 1: Install via pip

The official release of cuefix is distributed on PyPI. Note that you should use the Python 3 version of pip:

$ pip3 install cuefix

Option 2: Download from Github or git clone

This is the recommended way for developers.

$ git clone git://github.com/yinyanghu/cuefix

Run ./setup.py install to install cuefix to your user path.

Upgrading

If you install cuefix using pip, you could upgrade it via

$ pip3 install --upgrade cuefix

Getting Started

$ cuefix -h
usage: cuefix [-h] [--version] [-v] [-y] [-i] [--dryrun] [-e {utf-8-sig,utf-8,gb2312}] [-n {unix,windows}]
              [--no-encoding] [--no-newline] [--no-backup]
              filepath

Fix a CUE file in a directory: convert encoding, convert newline character, fix not matched audio file.

positional arguments:
  filepath              file path to the input cue file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             print the version of cuefix and exit
  -v, --verbose         enable verbose output

dry-run options:
  -y, --yes             disable interactive mode and yes to all prompts
  -i, --info            display metainfo of the input cue file only
  --dryrun              dry-run and print out fixed cue file

fix options:
  -e {utf-8-sig,utf-8,gb2312}, --encoding {utf-8-sig,utf-8,gb2312}
                        encoding which cue file will be converted to, default is UTF-8 BOM (utf-8-sig)
  -n {unix,windows}, --newline {unix,windows}
                        newline format which cue file will be converted to, default is Unix
  --no-encoding         converting encoding will be skipped
  --no-newline          converting newline will be skipped

backup options:
  --no-backup           no backup for the input cue file, USE WITH CAUTION!

You can recursively run cuefix to fix all CUE file in a directory:

$ find <directory> -type f -name "*.cue" -exec cuefix -v {} \;

CUE Formats Supported by Popular Media Players

Media Players

• Foobar 2000
  • Windows (version 1.5.5)
• DeaDBeeF
  • Linux (version 1.8.4)
  • Android
  • Windows (unstable, nightly build)
  • macOS (unstable, nightly build)
• VOX
  • macOS (version 3.3.17)
  • iOS
• Synology Audio Station
  • Synology DSM (version 6.2.3)
  • Audio Station (version 6.5.5-3374)

Encoding

Please use the following encoding name in cuefix:

• UTF-8: utf-8
• UTF-8 BOM: utf-8-sig
• GB 2312: gb2312

	Platform	UTF-8	UTF-8 BOM	GB 2312
Foobar 2000	Windows	❌	✔️	✔️
DeaDBeeF	Linux / Android	✔️	✔️	✔️
VOX	macOS / iOS	✔️	✔️	❌
Synology Audio Station	NAS / Linux	✔️	✔️	❌

Note: DeaDBeeF on Linux could support CUE file in encoding GB 2312 by enabling Chinese CP 936 detection and recording in the settings. However, DeaDBeeF on macOS still cannot support GB 2312 even if we enable the setting. DeadDBeeF on Android has not been tested yet.

Note: VOX on iOS has not been tested yet.

Newline

	Platform	Unix (LF)	Windows (CRLF)
Foobar 2000	Windows	✔️	✔️
DeaDBeeF	Linux / Android	✔️	✔️
VOX	macOS / iOS	✔️	✔️
Synology Audio Station	NAS / Linux	✔️	✔️

License

GNU General Public License v3.0