Dealing with cue bin data files

This how to guide, tutorial will give you a program that will extract your cue bin files under any Linux system.

1. Install bchunk first. Under Ubuntu use the command sudo apt-get install bchunk, for a different distribution use the http://he.fi/bchunk/


2. Now enter the following command bchunk <file.bin> <file.cue> <basename> where the file.bin is the file that contains the actual data (e.g for example Music.mp3 file that is 50MB and contains 15 mp3 files), file.cue is the catalogue file and basename is the name of the "output" that extracted files will go to. This command will create an iso image caled basename.iso or a basename.cdr file depending upon how the bin was encoded.

Dealing with the ISO

1. Enter the following comand: sudo mount -o loop basename.iso /mnt, this command will mount the iso file to /mnt


2. List the content using sudo ls /mnt

Dealing with the .CDR

The  .cdr  tracks are in the native CD audio format. They can be either written on a CD-R using  cdrecord  -audio,  or  con‐

verted to WAV (or any other sound format for that matter) using sox.

Another way of dealing with .cdr is to try the bchunk process again with the -w option which will output to .wav format which you can then either convert to ogg or mp3.