CueSplit for Mac
Open a single-file lossless album and its cue sheet, fix garbled names and tags, listen to any track, then split it into one properly tagged file per track.
Free · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel · Notarized by Apple
A CD image keeps a whole album in one file. CueSplit turns it into the tracks your player expects.
Drop a cue sheet on the window. A FLAC or APE file with its cue sheet embedded works too, as does a whole folder.
Fix garbled names by switching the encoding, edit tags and cover art, and play any track to hear where it starts.
Save every track, or only the ones you select, as FLAC, Apple Lossless or AAC, or add them straight to Music.
Cue sheets come from every ripper, in every language. CueSplit handles the awkward parts.
Cue sheets are saved in all kinds of text encodings. CueSplit detects which one automatically, and if names still look wrong, pick another and see the result straight away.
Tags from the cue sheet are merged with the ones already in the audio file, including foobar2000’s per-track tags and embedded cover art, so composers, BPM and catalog numbers survive the split.
Change any field for the whole album or only the selected tracks. Drop an image on the cover to replace it, undo, or go back to the original. You can save a corrected cue sheet too.
FLAC at compression levels 0 to 8, Apple Lossless, or AAC from 128 to 320 kbps, in a new album folder if you like.
Every frame’s checksum is checked as the album is read, and every saved track is compared with the original audio. Files only appear once they’ve passed, so a failed or cancelled split leaves nothing behind.
Add the whole album, or a few tracks, to your Music library as Apple Lossless or AAC, with their tags and cover art.
Private by design. CueSplit runs entirely on your Mac. It’s sandboxed, never connects to the internet and collects no data.
Privacy policycuesplit does the same splitting from Terminal, for scripts and whole shelves of albums. It reads the same cue sheets, keeps the same tags and checks every track the same way, with --json output for scripts.
brew install galaco/tap/cuesplit-cli Homebrew also installs its man page and zsh, bash and fish completions.
Free from the Mac App Store, GitHub and Homebrew. Runs on macOS 14 or later, on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
A disk image signed and notarized by Apple. Open it and drag CueSplit to Applications.
Install the app or the command-line tool, and update them with brew upgrade.
Install it from the App Store, and get its updates there too.
Open the .cue file in CueSplit, or drop it on the window. Check the track names and tags, then choose Split… (⌘S). CueSplit saves one tagged file per track, in a new album folder if you like.
The cue sheet was saved in a different text encoding from the one your software assumed: often Shift-JIS for Japanese releases, or GB18030 or Big5 for Chinese ones. CueSplit detects the encoding automatically, and its encoding menu lets you switch and see the result straight away.
Not as FLAC or Apple Lossless: each track holds exactly the original audio, and CueSplit compares it with the source to make sure. AAC is lossy, for when smaller files matter more.
Albums ripped to a single FLAC or APE (Monkey’s Audio) file, with the cue sheet beside it or embedded in the audio file. Cue sheets that refer to several audio files work too.
Yes. It’s free from the Mac App Store, GitHub and Homebrew, and so is the command-line tool.