emby not support cue+ape or cue+flac music files?

[mlaterreur 0]

Was support for CUE sheets added in the meantime? It doesn't seem to work on my server. Most of my albums (jazz and classical music) are cue+flac files.

Thank you.

[Luke 42077]

2 hours ago, mlaterreur said:

Was support for CUE sheets added in the meantime? It doesn't seem to work on my server. Most of my albums (jazz and classical music) are cue+flac files.

Thank you.

Hi, it has not been, sorry.

[smai999 1]

NAS and Emby users are different from the normal user, at least in my country.

This is a field of design for a few enthusiasts

I've been hanging out in the PT community recently and I've found that nearly half of the lossless music resources in the community are in ape/flac+cue format

I was very surprised when I found this page。
In any case, Emby has done a good enough job. I support you to decide whether or not to add this function according to the amount of resources and actual demand, or when to add it

[smai999 1]

On 2021/1/5 at AM2点11分, andresch said:

嗨 FLAC+CUE 用户，

经过多年为我的由 FLAC+CUE 文件组成的音乐库寻找媒体服务器后，我解决了这个问题，这种方式应该适用于在某些支持 docker 的 NAS 上拥有音乐库的每个人，适用于任何支持 FLAC 的媒体服务器（包括 FLAC）。安比）：

https://github.com/andresch/trackfs

Trackfs 创建一个虚拟文件系统（又名 FUSE），其中它将所有 FLAC+CUE 文件分割成单独的轨道（无需永久分配磁盘空间）。它还将所有（大多数）元数据（包括图片）复制到各个轨道中。然后，您使用该虚拟文件系统作为媒体服务器中的源。

希望这对你们中的一些人也有帮助。欢迎在 github 上提出评论/问题。

安德烈亚斯

This is the first time I have regretted using windows as an emby server lol

[fgp303 0]

yup, this is sad story. The devs don't feel this is a "standard" things in flac/wav based albums, like m3u in mp3 files. I bet they have lots of other important issues about bug hunting or focus on other demands.

Edited May 10, 2024 by fgp303

[tufeixp 1]

On 5/11/2024 at 2:09 AM, fgp303 said:

yup, this is sad story. The devs don't feel this is a "standard" things in flac/wav based albums, like m3u in mp3 files. I bet they have lots of other important issues about bug hunting or focus on other demands.

+1 for Cue and ape!

[Ronstang 293]

People....Cue file support is NOT coming to emby, nor should it.  It is a yesterdecade thing and almost no one uses them today.  I understand why you use them as I still do too but in a different way than I used to.  It made sense 20 years ago for archiving purposes and there are players like Foobar2000 that support playing an image file using a cue sheet but most people do not use their music this way any more, nor should they if you are honest.

Hard drives are cheap, so yes I still rip all music CDs to an image file with a cue sheet, but this is only for archival, not for playing.  I then use CueTools to convert the image file to individual FLAC tracks with a cue sheet but that is out of old habit more then anything.  If you don't want to store your music twice then forgo the image and simply use the individual tracks with the cue sheet....it results in the same thing.

At least this way you can use your music in a much more versatile way being in individual tracks.  I have another hard drive with all my FLAC tracks made into mp3 for the car or phone etc. but with the individual FLAC tracks you can use them directly through emby even if you have them in mp3 somewhere else so there is really only upside and versatility.

[fgp303 0]

I understand you feel this is a medieval feature but lots of times it can be usefull. Like not all music cd wave 2 sec gap between the tracks, sometimes 0 sometimes different and this can be different between the tracks. With cue i can enjoy the original structure meanwhile i can hold the audio tracks in individual files. + i dont say nothing from the index points which very rare but sometimes also necessary for proper usage. (think on old AMG loop CDs with 99 tracks and each tracks have multiple index points.)

i hope once someone will made a plugin for cue support...

Edited June 12, 2024 by fgp303

[Ronstang 293]

36 minutes ago, fgp303 said:

With cue i can enjoy the original structure

You can do this without a cue sheet in any player by using the correct software to rip you music and add the gaps to the end of the individual tracks....which you can then ignore upon playback during shuffle play with most modern apps.  All without a cue sheet.

[fgp303 0]

I also able to listen music with foobar which have full cue support. However thanks for the alternate solution!

Edited June 12, 2024 by fgp303

[pwhodges 2012]

The objection I would recognise to separate files is mainly the continuing lack of continuous play - which means that any through-composed music (whether opera or an album) that also has tracks gets mangled at each track point. But if support for a single file with cue info still meant each track still being treated separately by the player you might even not get the expected benefit of playing one file continuously...

Paul

[Davey's 37]

Can we still expect CUE + WAV Playback?

[Ronstang 293]

12 hours ago, Davey's said:

Can we still expect CUE + WAV Playback?

[Luke 42077]

13 hours ago, Davey's said:

Can we still expect CUE + WAV Playback?

Hi, given enough demand, certainly.

[hohner36 0]

Im register on this forum only for request cue+flac support, thanks for your job.

[Ronstang 293]

58 minutes ago, hohner36 said:

Im register on this forum only for request cue+flac support, thanks for your job.

I would not hold your breath, there really isn't any demand for a feature that most people dropped 10 years ago.  I still use cue files in with my music collection I just don't use them for playback because if you want to random play tracks of a subset of albums that are images with cue files it is probably not going to work or be very tedious and messy.  You are better off using your cue files to generate FLAC tracks and let emby organize them in the database.  Or any music manager for that matter.

[youflyang 2]

On 9/3/2025 at 4:16 AM, Ronstang said:

I would not hold your breath, there really isn't any demand for a feature that most people dropped 10 years ago.  I still use cue files in with my music collection I just don't use them for playback because if you want to random play tracks of a subset of albums that are images with cue files it is probably not going to work or be very tedious and messy.  You are better off using your cue files to generate FLAC tracks and let emby organize them in the database.  Or any music manager for that matter.

Many people are still using it, just like me.