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How to use a cuesheet
There are many ways and programs to get a cuesheet but you can make it by creating a .txt file as well and that's what will be explained in this thread.
Open Notepad to do it. Normally in the first line you type the info about the performer of the set/CD you do the cuesheet for but it is no essential info as burning the CD will work without it. For a kiss set it could look like this:
PERFORMER "John Digweed"
The next line is used for the name of the set. This line is also not essential but informative.
TITLE "Kiss 100 FM John Digweed (June 13, 2004)"
Now comes the third and important line, the filename. With this line you tell the burning program what the name of the set and the format (MP3 or WAV) is. Line three of your cuesheet looks like this now: (use the filename like you stored it on your hard disc)
FILE "Kiss 100 FM John Digweed (June 13, 2004).mp3" MP3
That?s the header of a cuesheet. All in all it looks now like this:
PERFORMER "John Digweed"
TITLE "Kiss 100 FM John Digweed (June 13, 2004)"
FILE "Kiss 100 FM John Digweed (June 13, 2004).mp3" MP3
Now we care for the tracks. Normally, when I do a cuesheet I listen to the set/CD and write the times down when a new track enters. The syntax for a track in the cuesheet should look like this:
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Track 1"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 01 AUDIO <----- is an information for your burning program
TITLE "Track 1" <----- Here you can enter the name of the track. The effect is that CD-players which are able to display CD-text show the names entered here.
INDEX 01 00:00:00 <------ INDEX 01 tells the burning program that the index is 01. Normally only one index is used to burn a CD because otherwise your burning program will ask you to enter a new CD as for example INDEX 02 will tell the burning program to write another project.
00:00:00 <----- this line tells the burning program when the track starts. This example is for track one so it starts in the beginning.
Now you simply add all tracks of the set and enter the tracktimes and names if you like to and the complete cuesheet could look like this:
PERFORMER "John Digweed"
TITLE "Kiss 100 FM John Digweed (June 13, 2004)"
FILE " Kiss 100 FM John Digweed (June 13, 2004).mp3" MP3
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Track 1"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Track 2"
INDEX 01 06:12:00
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE " Track 3"
INDEX 01 10:12:00
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE " Track 4"
INDEX 01 17:40:00
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE " Track 5?
INDEX 01 26:42:00
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE " Track 6"
INDEX 01 33:42:00
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "Track 7"
INDEX 01 41:10:00
After you are finished, save the .txt-file and rename the ending afterwards to .cue. Open the burning program you use and take care the cuesheet and the set are in the same folder and follow the instructions of your burning program manual how to burn a CD using a cuesheet.
There are many ways and programs to get a cuesheet but you can make it by creating a .txt file as well and that's what will be explained in this thread.
Open Notepad to do it. Normally in the first line you type the info about the performer of the set/CD you do the cuesheet for but it is no essential info as burning the CD will work without it. For a kiss set it could look like this:
PERFORMER "John Digweed"
The next line is used for the name of the set. This line is also not essential but informative.
TITLE "Kiss 100 FM John Digweed (June 13, 2004)"
Now comes the third and important line, the filename. With this line you tell the burning program what the name of the set and the format (MP3 or WAV) is. Line three of your cuesheet looks like this now: (use the filename like you stored it on your hard disc)
FILE "Kiss 100 FM John Digweed (June 13, 2004).mp3" MP3
That?s the header of a cuesheet. All in all it looks now like this:
PERFORMER "John Digweed"
TITLE "Kiss 100 FM John Digweed (June 13, 2004)"
FILE "Kiss 100 FM John Digweed (June 13, 2004).mp3" MP3
Now we care for the tracks. Normally, when I do a cuesheet I listen to the set/CD and write the times down when a new track enters. The syntax for a track in the cuesheet should look like this:
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Track 1"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 01 AUDIO <----- is an information for your burning program
TITLE "Track 1" <----- Here you can enter the name of the track. The effect is that CD-players which are able to display CD-text show the names entered here.
INDEX 01 00:00:00 <------ INDEX 01 tells the burning program that the index is 01. Normally only one index is used to burn a CD because otherwise your burning program will ask you to enter a new CD as for example INDEX 02 will tell the burning program to write another project.
00:00:00 <----- this line tells the burning program when the track starts. This example is for track one so it starts in the beginning.
Now you simply add all tracks of the set and enter the tracktimes and names if you like to and the complete cuesheet could look like this:
PERFORMER "John Digweed"
TITLE "Kiss 100 FM John Digweed (June 13, 2004)"
FILE " Kiss 100 FM John Digweed (June 13, 2004).mp3" MP3
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Track 1"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Track 2"
INDEX 01 06:12:00
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE " Track 3"
INDEX 01 10:12:00
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE " Track 4"
INDEX 01 17:40:00
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE " Track 5?
INDEX 01 26:42:00
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE " Track 6"
INDEX 01 33:42:00
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "Track 7"
INDEX 01 41:10:00
After you are finished, save the .txt-file and rename the ending afterwards to .cue. Open the burning program you use and take care the cuesheet and the set are in the same folder and follow the instructions of your burning program manual how to burn a CD using a cuesheet.
