# Support for CUE-sheets?

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/support-for-cue-sheets/927>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [September 22, 2019, 11:49am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/support-for-cue-sheets/927 "2019-09-22T11:49:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![galicarnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@galicarnax](https://discourse.beets.io/u/galicarnax)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 11:49am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/support-for-cue-sheets/927/1 "2019-09-22T11:49:07Z")

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I have installed `beets` on Windows 10, working fine except that it does not seem to treat cue-sheets. I have lots of albums in my library which are single files (\*.flac and \*.ape), with tracks indicated in separate \*.cue-files lying in the same directories (I use this library with foobar2000, which can read tracks from cue-files). When I imported the library into beet, cue-files were ignored, so I ended up with having tracks where there should be albums. I found no hints in the beet docs (in fact, googling `cue site:beets.readthedocs.io` returns 0 results). Is support for CUEs not supported? If not, is it planned?

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**Author:** ![adrian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/adrian/32/4_2.png) [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 2:36am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/support-for-cue-sheets/927/2 "2019-09-23T02:36:32Z")

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Indeed—please see this issue thread:

> <https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/136>

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**Author:** ![SimplicityGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@SimplicityGuy](https://discourse.beets.io/u/SimplicityGuy)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/support-for-cue-sheets/927/3 "2020-11-29T17:56:08Z")

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Digging into an old thread here. How does it work? Should we place the .cue file alongside the .mp3?

edit: also, is this the source for the cue parsing? [https://github.com/beetbox/beets/blob/master/beetsplug/cue.py](https://github.com/beetbox/beets/blob/master/beetsplug/cue.py)

The linked issue from github doesn’t point to any PRs that implement the feature.

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**Author:** ![jackwilsdon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/jackwilsdon/32/10_2.png) [@jackwilsdon](https://discourse.beets.io/u/jackwilsdon)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/support-for-cue-sheets/927/4 "2020-11-30T01:16:17Z")

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Looking at the source, it seems like placing the `.cue` alongside your media when importing is the way to use it. It looks like it only supports `.wav` at the moment though.

You’ll need to ensure you have `shnsplit` installed and also add `cue` to your plugins list.