Cue sheet (computing)

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A cue sheet, or cue file, is a metadata file which describes how the tracks of a CD or DVD^{[citation needed]} are laid out. Cue sheets are stored as plain text files and commonly have a .cue filename extension. CDRWIN first introduced cue sheets,^[1] which are now supported by many optical disc authoring applications and media players.