dart_cue 0.0.1

A pure Dart CUE sheet parser and serialiser for album, track, and index metadata with lossless round-trip support and no runtime dependencies.

dart_cue

A pure Dart CUE sheet parser and serialiser. Reads album, track and index metadata into a well-typed model, writes it back losslessly, and tolerates the quirks of real-world CUE files produced by EAC, cdrdao, XLD and friends.

No runtime dependencies. Works on the Dart VM, AOT binaries, Flutter and the web.

Features

• Parse from a String, raw bytes, or a file path.
• Serialise a CueSheet back to CUE text (toCueString) with frame-accurate round-trip.
• Full coverage of standard commands: CATALOG, CDTEXTFILE, PERFORMER, SONGWRITER, TITLE, FILE, TRACK, INDEX, PREGAP, POSTGAP, ISRC, FLAGS, REM (album- and track-scoped).
• File types: WAVE, MP3, AIFF, AIFC, BINARY, MOTOROLA.
• Track types: AUDIO, CDG, MODE1/2048, MODE1/2352, MODE2/2336, MODE2/2352, CDI/2336, CDI/2352, DATA.
• Flags: DCP, 4CH, PRE, SCMS, DATA.
• MSF (mm:ss:ff, 75 fps) timestamps with rounding-safe parseMsf / formatMsf.
• Automatic endTime and duration derivation per track.
• Encoding detection: UTF-8, UTF-16 LE and UTF-16 BE byte-order marks are handled; falls back to Latin-1 for legacy Windows rippers.
• Permissive parsing — malformed timestamps, unknown tokens and misplaced commands never throw; valid data is preserved.
• Unmodifiable collections on parsed sheets — safe to share across isolates and cache layers without defensive copies.

Install

dependencies:
  dart_cue: ^0.0.1

Usage

Parse a file

import 'package:dart_cue/dart_cue.dart';

Future<void> main() async {
  final sheet = await parseCueFile('album.cue');
  if (sheet == null) return;

  print('${sheet.performer} — ${sheet.title}');
  for (final file in sheet.files) {
    for (final track in file.tracks) {
      print('  ${track.trackNumber}. ${track.title} '
          '(${track.duration})');
    }
  }
}

Parse a string or bytes

final sheet = parseCueSheet(cueText);
final sheet2 = parseCueBytes(Uint8List.fromList(utf8.encode(cueText)));

Round-trip

final sheet = parseCueSheet(input)!;
final output = toCueString(sheet); // re-parseable, lossless

MSF timestamps

final d = parseMsf('04:12:37');        // Duration
final s = formatMsf(Duration(minutes: 1, seconds: 5)); // '01:05:00'

Data model at a glance

CueSheet
├── performer, title, songwriter, catalog, cdTextFile
├── remComments: Map<String, String>           // album-level REM
└── files: List<CueFile>
    ├── filename, fileType
    └── tracks: List<CueTrack>
        ├── trackNumber, trackType
        ├── title, performer, songwriter, isrc
        ├── pregap, postgap, flags
        ├── indices: Map<int, Duration>
        ├── remComments: Map<String, String>   // track-level REM
        └── startTime, endTime, duration       // derived

CLI

The package ships a cueinfo executable. Install it globally:

$ dart pub global activate dart_cue
$ cueinfo --help

Or run it from a cloned repo with dart run bin/cueinfo.dart ….

Subcommands

cueinfo info      <file.cue> [--format text|json]   # default
cueinfo validate  <file.cue>                        # exit 0 = clean, 1 = issues
cueinfo reformat  <file.cue>                        # canonical CUE to stdout
cueinfo tracks    <file.cue>                        # one line per track

Examples:

$ cueinfo info album.cue --format text
Title     : Great Album
Performer : The Artist
...

$ cueinfo validate album.cue
album.cue: OK

$ cueinfo validate broken.cue
broken.cue: TRACK 01: missing INDEX 01
broken.cue: CATALOG "123" is not 13 digits

$ cueinfo reformat messy.cue > clean.cue     # normalise formatting

$ cueinfo tracks album.cue
01  03:42:15  The Artist — First Song
02  04:03:30  The Artist — Second Song

validate checks: missing INDEX 01, non-monotonic track numbers, out-of-range track numbers, empty filenames, missing tracks, and malformed CATALOG / ISRC values. Exits non-zero on any issue, so it's suitable for CI pipelines.

Testing

$ dart test

The suite includes malformed-input fuzzing, immutability contracts, a public API surface check, and end-to-end fixtures under test/fixtures/ modelled on EAC, cdrdao, per-track WAV and hidden-pregap layouts.

Author

Paul Snow

Licence

Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE.