Auto Cue button in the window.

Use Auto Cue to generate cue points automatically at fixed intervals or at silences detected within the audio. Existing cue points are not changed or removed. Use the Delete All button on the window first if you do not want to use any of the existing cue points.

The feature can be used later to split a file into separate pieces based on these cue points.

Mark Silence Button
Displays setting for generating cue points at silences, such as marking gaps between songs. A single cue point is added at each detected silence.

Mark Silence Settings
Setting Description
Threshold (dB) Sets the upper level for the silence. In most cases, like vinyl recordings, the value should be -40dB or higher so that any background hiss, pops, or clicks are considered silence. Otherwise no silence would be marked at all. If you find that no cue points appear, try increasing this value to -30dB or higher. If you find that too many points appear, delete them, then decrease this value or change the values below. Using the and filters effect first may improve silence detection.
Silence length (s) Specifies how much silence is required before it is marked. Some songs contain brief silences that you usually do not want marked. This value helps to avoid marking any brief pauses within a song. Try values between 1.0 to 1.5 seconds to ignore these brief silences and mark only the longer silences between songs.
Minimum separation between cues (s) Sets the minimum amount of time between one cue point and the next. If all the songs are longer than 2 minutes, for example, then set this value to 2:00 to ensure no silences within a song are marked. All cue points will be at least two minutes apart. Use the Calculate button to calculcate the separation based on a given number of cue points.
Cue placement within area (%) Specifies where to place the cue point within the detected silent area. A value of 0 means at the beginning of the silence, a value of 100 means at the end of the silence. The default value of 50 places the cue point in the center of the silence area.

Spacing Button
Displays setting for generating cue points at fixed intervals, such as having cue points every 5 minutes. Cue points are added at the specified interval, starting at the given time.

Spacing Settings
Setting Description
Start time (s) Sets the time to begin marking the file. If you enter 1:00, then the first cue point is inserted at time 00:01:00 in the file. Normally this value would be zero.
Interval (s) Specifies the time interval to use between each cue point. A value of 5:00 would set cue points at five minute intervals (00:05:00, 00:10:00, 00:15:00, etc.). Use the Calculate button to calculcate the interval based on a given number of cue points.

Duplicates
This setting determines how duplicates are handled. A duplicate cue point is one that is close to an existing cue point. Only the position of the cue point is considered. Cue points with the same name, but different positions are not considered duplicates. If "Allow duplicates" is selected, then new cue points will be created on top of existing ones. If "No exact duplicates" is selected, then new cue points having the exact time as existing cue points are not added. If one of the other options is selected, then new cue points close to existing cue points are not added.


These settings control how names are assigned to the new cue points as they are generated.

Cue Naming Settings
Setting Description
Time based Names cue points based on its time position within the file. A cue point added at two minutes into the file, for example, will have the name 2:00.00000.
Numbered Names cue points based on three digit sequential numbers. The names will be 001, 002, 003, etc. The starting number depends on the number of cue points already in the file.
Lettered Names each cue point alphabetically, with three letters, such as AAA, AAB, AAC, etc. The starting name depends on the number of cue points already in the file.

Import/Export Buttons
Use the Import button to read cue points from a . Use the Export button to save all cue points to a CD cue file. The default name of the cue file depends on the name of the current Sound file. For example, if the file you are working on is "music.wav", then the cue file is "music.cue" by default. See for a setting to use cue files automatically. A () contains track information that some CD Recorder programs, such as CDRWIN and Nero, use when creating a table of contents for a CD. Creating a cue file may eliminate the need to split a large file into separate track files. You can open the cue file in the Windows Notepad accessory to edit or view its contents.

Use the Import and Export buttons in the tool to load and save them.

Cue point positions in a cue file are accurate only to 1/75 of a second, which is the size of a single CD sector. They are stored more accurately within some sound .