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How to open a CUE file on Android
The table of contents of an album stored as one file
CUE is a text table of contents for an album stored as one big FLAC, APE, WavPack or WAV file: it lists the song titles and where each one starts. The free XanderFiles app reads CUE files and splits the album into separate songs in its audio player.
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What is this file
CUE sheets came with whole-disc CD ripping: programs like EAC save a disc as one file and write a .cue table of contents next to it — track numbers, titles, artists and exact boundaries.
A .cue file itself is a short text with no music in it. Without a player that understands CUE, the album plays as one long track and the .cue file opens as cryptic text.
How to open it
- Install XanderFiles from Google Play. It is free, with no ads and no sign-up.
- Tap the .cue file wherever you have it: in the album folder — next to the big FLAC, APE or WAV file.
- When Android asks which app to use, choose XanderFiles. Or the other way round: open XanderFiles, tap “Open file” and pick the file in Downloads or Google Drive.
- The table of contents opens with a “Play album” button. Choose the album folder once — the player finds the big file and starts the first song. Each song appears separately in the playlist, with its own title and length.
What you can do
- Play a single-file album by song: seeking, next and previous
- Song titles and artists from the CUE, including legacy Windows-1251 Cyrillic CUE files
- Multi-file albums; FLAC, APE, WavPack, WAV and other files
- “Add folder” in the player finds CUE sheets and splits albums by itself
Good to know
- A CUE sheet embedded inside a FLAC or APE file is not read — a separate .cue file is needed.
- There may be a barely noticeable pause between songs of the same album.
- The big album file must be in the chosen folder (or its subfolders).
Questions
The CUE opened as text — what now?
That is expected: there is a “Play album” button above the text. Tap it and choose the folder with the album.
Song titles in the CUE show garbled characters?
XanderFiles detects the encoding itself, including Windows-1251 and UTF-8, so song titles are readable.
Is it free?
Yes. No ads, no sign-up, and it works offline.
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