
The specification for that command defines a cue sheet format containing mostly the same information, but in a tabular, binary data structure, rather than a text file.

The name "cue sheet" originates from the "send cue sheet" SCSI/ATA command in optical disc authoring. The BIN/CUE format is one of the few formats besides Nero's NRG, Alcohol 120%'s MDF/MDS and CloneCD's CCD/IMG/SUB disc image formats to support Mixed Mode CDs which can contain audio CD tracks as well as data tracks. However, the TRACK command in a cue sheet file can be used to refer to binary disc images that contain only the user data of each sector, by indicating the specific CD mode of the tracks from which the image was created (which is necessary to know the size of the user data in each sector).
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bin files usually contain all 2,352 bytes from each sector in an optical disc, including control headers and error correction data in the case of CD-ROMs (unlike ISO images of CD-ROMs, which store only the user data). bin files are raw sector-by-sector binary copies of tracks in the original discs. When used for disc images, the format is usually called CUE/BIN, indicating that it stores a disc image composed of one cue sheet file and one or more. The data files referred to by the cue sheet may be audio files (commonly in MP3 or WAV format), or plain disc images, usually with a. They are especially useful when dividing audio stored in a single file into multiple songs or tracks.


Cue sheets also specify track lengths and CD-Text including track and disc titles and performers. The main data (including audio) for a CD described by a cue sheet is stored in one or more files referenced by the cue sheet.
