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*  CueMaster                                 *
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*  CD Tracklist and Cue file converter       *
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(c) 2002-2009 BaSs-Z

CueMaster homepage: http://cuemaster.org/


I N T R O D U C T I O N

Cue files are hard to find these days. More and more download sites and P2P programs offer full CD's in one big MP3 file, but finding the correct tracknames and lengths takes a lot of time.

This program allows you to find the CD on FreeDB.org and convert it straight into a Cue Sheet that can be used by musiCutter, CDRWIN or mp3cue.

If FreeDB doesn't have trackdata for the CD, you can also try the MP3 scanning feature: automatically search through a large MP3 file to find split-points and recreate a new Cue-sheet, or extract the Cue-sheet embedded in an ID3v2-tag.

You can save the tracklist to a Cue-file or a XMCD-file. You can use musiCutter (see Links) to split the mp3 file into multiple parts using the Cue-file, or CDRWIN to burn a CD with correct track-markers. This program can also export the tracklist to a XML, HTML, CSV or a Text-file. And it can write the Cue-sheet to an mp3file's ID3v2-tag (like mp3cue does).

But it has more: you can use it as a full-featured Cue-sheet editor. You can create a new Cue-sheet from scratch by adding tracks, cut/copy/paste/delete/move tracks and edit the titles.

Have you ever had this: you've downloaded all tracks from an album separately, and you want to glue them together with some join-tool, but you also want a matching CUE-sheet. This program can do it: it reads all MP3-files in a folder you specify, and creates a CUE-sheet with correct tracklengths. It even calculates the FreeDB DiscID, so you can get the tracklist from FreeDB. I've only heard about one other program that can do something similar, but that's a Linux command-line utility.....

Best of all, it's free! It has been successfully tested with Windows 98 and XP, so it should work on ME and 2000 too. However, you'll get the best results on Windows XP.


F E A T U R E S

- Get tracklists from: FreeDB.org servers, CUE-files, XMCD-files, MP3-files (see MP3 Scanner features), Folder-contents.
- Write tracklist to: CUE-files, XMCD-files, XML, HTML, TXT, CSV or MP3-tag.
- Intuitive user-interface.
- Integrated FreeDB search function (no need for a browser).
- Allows full editing of titles, artists and trackduration.
- Cut/copy/paste tracks using the Windows clipboard.
- Only one EXE needed (and optional INI-file). Delete=uninstall. No registry keys left after removal.


M P 3   S C A N N E R   F E A T U R E S

- Looks in MP3 files for ID3v2-tag with complete CUE-file, made by mp3cue Winamp-plugin.
- Extracts trackdata from AlbumWrap archives.
- Searches for multiple ID3v1-tags which can be used as split-points, calculates tracktimes according to multiple headers in the Mp3 file and creates a complete Cue-sheet.
- Automatically detects Zip-, Rar-, Ace-, Lzh-, Cab-, Tar- and Wrapster-archives and notifies you.
- Notifies you if file is a WMA-file instead of Mp3.
- Configurable thread priority.
Sure, you can do the same with a Hex-editor, but this is way faster.


T I P S

- Make a CueMaster-shortcut on your desktop and drag&drop a Cue- or XMCD-file on it to load it.
- It the CueMaster main-window is visible, you can drag&drop a Cue- or XMCD-file on it to load it.
- If the CueMaster MP3-scan window is visible, you can drag&drop an MP3-file on it to load it.
- If the CueMaster Folder-scan window is visible, you can drag&drop a folder on it to load it.


K N O W N   P R O B L E M S

- It doesn't always check for correct user-input values, buffer-overflows are rare, but possible.
- I have no idea if this program runs on Win95. I've tested it with Win98SE and WinXP (all compatibility modes). And it runs without any problems. Please let me know if CueMaster works on your system.


E X P E C T E D   I N   F U T U R E   V E R S I O N S

- Manual splitpoint selection tool (something similar like the track-split function in WinOnCD burn-software) with a waveform-view, so you load a mp3-file and click where you want the next track to begin.
- Full ID3v2-tag support (MP3 Scanner currently only uses ID3v1-tags as splitpoints).
- MAYBE: Tracklist editing for multiple tracks at once (for now, only Pasting multiple tracks will work).


C R E D I T S

CueMaster was written by BaSs-Z. See Contact for my homepage/e-mail address.
I want to thank the following people:
- Kevin Diggins for making BCX.
- Eden Kirin for making ConTEXT.
- OsirisX11 for helping me with the FreeDB-search function.


C O N T A C T

Please send me any comments and suggestions you might have by e-mail.
My e-mail address can be found at the CueMaster homepage:
http://cuemaster.org/
If that page doesn't exist any more, try to search for "CueMaster" with Google.

Greetings,
and share your albums on KaZaA!

ps: R.I.P. AudioGalaxy.com


D I S C L A I M E R

This program is freeware and may be freely distributed as long as all files are included, and it is not modified or sold.

There is no warranty. The author is not responsible for the use or abuse of this software or any consequences resulting from use or abuse.

Additional information can be found in license.txt


R E L A T E D   L I N K S

- CueMaster Homepage:
  http://cuemaster.org/

- Macik's musiCutter (c) Slavo Kopinec:
  http://musicutter.host.sk/

- Exact Audio Copy (c) Andre Wiethoff:
  http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

- xmcd2cue (c) Viktor Szakts:
  http://www.syenar.hu/xmcd2cue/

- mp3cue (c) Jon Dee:
  http://www.guerillasoft.com/mp3cue/

- CDRWIN (c) Golden Hawk Technology
  http://www.goldenhawk.com/

- KaZaA (c) FastTrack
  http://www.kazaa.com/

- FreeDB:
  http://www.freedb.org/
