CUE

cue icon

Cue sheet description

File type: Disk image (ISO) binary file, Settings, options, themes or skins file

Files with cue extension can be mainly found as cue sheet description files originally used by the CDRwin program, but more commonly known as small files that accompany .bin disk images.

Found 3 different file type records with the same cue filename suffix.

What is cue file?

File type category:
Disk image (ISO) binary file
Settings, options, themes or skins file

Date updated: July 13, 2025

File extension cue is mainly related to cue sheet description file also known as Description File for a CD-Image (.bin file) originally used by CDRWIN CD/DVD recording application.

Cue sheet description file is an ASCII (plain text) file that specifies how the tracks of a compact disc should be laid out. Cue sheet file can be viewed and edited in any text editor such as Notepad, Notepad++, TextEdit, gedit etc.

For an audio CD, the cue sheet can specify titles and performers for the disc and its tracks as well as the names of one or more audio files to be used. MP3, WAV and BIN files are often used, although some programs support other formats. Cue sheets are especially useful when burning or listening to live sets where all tracks are recorded in one file.

Cue Splitter application is able to create audio tracks from one long mix with using information about tracks in CUE file.

Some multimedia players such as KMPlayer, VUPlayer are able to use CUE file as playlist file and playback audio tracks listed in it.

How to open cue file?

Many disk image handling programs nowadays can load up .cue/.bin files and work with them.

Also Cue sheet files are in simple text format, so you can use any text editor to view and possibly edit it.

How to convert cue file?

On its own, conversion of .cue files is pointless. You need to convert both .bin and .cue files together in order to convert them to other virtual machine formats.

Suggested software to open cue file:

Associated software actions with the cue file

Software applications that can open cue files:

Cue Splitter icon Cue Splitter (Microsoft Windows)

Nero Burning ROM icon Nero Burning ROM (Microsoft Windows)

Nero Platinum icon Nero Platinum (Microsoft Windows)

Nero Classic icon Nero Classic (Microsoft Windows)

Nero Multimedia Suite icon Nero Multimedia Suite (Microsoft Windows)

UltraIso icon UltraIso (Microsoft Windows)

MagicISO icon MagicISO (Microsoft Windows)

Daemon Tools icon Daemon Tools (Microsoft Windows)

PowerISO icon PowerISO (Microsoft Windows)

ISOBuster icon ISOBuster (Microsoft Windows)

Alcohol 120% icon Alcohol 120% (Microsoft Windows)

Blindwrite icon Blindwrite (Microsoft Windows)

CDRwin icon CDRwin (Microsoft Windows)

no icon available CueMaster (Microsoft Windows)

CloneCD icon CloneCD (Microsoft Windows)

Astroburn icon Astroburn (Microsoft Windows)

Roxio Toast Titanium icon Roxio Toast Titanium (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

Burn for Mac OS X icon Burn for Mac OS X (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

DAEMON Tools for Mac icon DAEMON Tools for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

Burn for Mac icon Burn for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

Software applications that can edit cue files:

no icon available CueMaster (Microsoft Windows)

Microsoft Windows NotePad icon Microsoft Windows NotePad (Microsoft Windows)

NotePad++ text editor icon NotePad++ text editor (Microsoft Windows)

TextEdit icon TextEdit (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

gedit icon gedit (Linux/Unix)

Software capable of saving cue files:

no icon available CueMaster (Microsoft Windows)

Programs for viewing cue files:

Microsoft Windows NotePad icon Microsoft Windows NotePad (Microsoft Windows)

NotePad++ text editor icon NotePad++ text editor (Microsoft Windows)

TextEdit icon TextEdit (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

gedit icon gedit (Linux/Unix)

Apps designed for playing cue files:

VLC media player icon VLC media player (Microsoft Windows)

VUPlayer icon VUPlayer (Microsoft Windows)

KMPlayer icon KMPlayer (Microsoft Windows)

VLC media player for Mac icon VLC media player for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

VLC media player for Linux icon VLC media player for Linux (Linux/Unix)

Software apps that create cue files:

CDRwin icon CDRwin (Microsoft Windows)

no icon available CueMaster (Microsoft Windows)

CloneCD icon CloneCD (Microsoft Windows)

Burn for Mac icon Burn for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

messages.fburn_description:

Nero Burning ROM icon Nero Burning ROM (Microsoft Windows)

Nero Platinum icon Nero Platinum (Microsoft Windows)

Nero Classic icon Nero Classic (Microsoft Windows)

CDRwin icon CDRwin (Microsoft Windows)

Nero Multimedia Suite icon Nero Multimedia Suite (Microsoft Windows)

Alcohol 120% icon Alcohol 120% (Microsoft Windows)

CloneCD icon CloneCD (Microsoft Windows)

Astroburn icon Astroburn (Microsoft Windows)

Roxio Toast Titanium icon Roxio Toast Titanium (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

Burn for Mac OS X icon Burn for Mac OS X (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

Burn for Mac icon Burn for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)

Software applications that handle other tasks involving cue files:

Alcohol 120% icon Alcohol 120% (Microsoft Windows)

BPM Studio cue points data

File type category:
Settings, options, themes or skins file

Date updated: October 11, 2018

The cue file extension is associated with the BPM Studio. BPM Studio is audio-mixing DJing application for Microsoft Windows.

BMP Studio CUE files contain saved CUE mixing positions for audio tracks.

How to open cue file?

Use BPM Studio to open and edit cue points for audio tracks.

How to convert cue file?

Probably cannot be converted to anything else.

Suggested software to open cue file:

Associated software actions with the cue file

Software applications that can open cue files:

no icon available BPM Studio (Microsoft Windows)

Software apps that create cue files:

no icon available BPM Studio (Microsoft Windows)

Software apps that manage settings for cue files:

no icon available BPM Studio (Microsoft Windows)

Microsoft Cue Cards data

File type category:
Various data file

Date updated: December 30, 2024

The cue file extension is associated with the Microsoft Cue Cards.

Microsoft Cue Cards is a feature of Microsoft Office applications and Microsoft Windows that helps users to guide them through some procedures. It is like an easier form of the Wizard. The CUE Cue Cards data file is for internal purpose of applications that uses Cue Cards feature.

Suggested software to open cue file:

Associated software actions with the cue file

Software applications that handle other tasks involving cue files:

Microsoft Office icon Microsoft Office (Microsoft Windows)

Microsoft Windows icon Microsoft Windows (Microsoft Windows)