The Recursive Cue Creator is a Java application that I wrote to generate cue sheets for use with the Cics Play memory player software (or any other music player that supports cue sheets). The application will start at any directory you specify, and recursively drill through the directory structure, creating a separate cue sheet for each directory that contains wav or flac files. The cue sheet entries will contain the full path to each wav and flac file found. You can also specify whether to save all generated cue sheets to a single directory, or to save each cue sheet within the directory where the music files are found.

This application is only useful if you have ripped your CDs to individual wav or flac files per song, and if you have a directory structure something like
Library Root\Artist 1\Album 1
Library Root\Artist 1\Album 2
Library Root\Artist 2\Album 1...
or
Library Root\Genre\Artist 1\Album 1
Library Root\Genre\Artist 1\Album 2
Library Root\Genre\Artist 2\Album 1...

In general, a person who rips their music collection to individual flac files would not need to use cue sheets because most media players will search your library and read the tags from the flac files. Cics Play, however, does not include this functionality, and is most conveniently used with cue sheets.

The program is written in Java, so in order to run it you have to have a relatively recent version of the Java interpreter installed on your system. You can download and install an appropriate version of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) here if you need to.

I have also provided a batch file that will easily start the program so you don't have to fiddle with the command prompt on some systems. You can start the program by double clicking on the batch file.

Directions

1. Download the RecursiveCueCreator.zip file and unzip it somewhere, keeping the folder structure intact.
2. Start the program by double clicking on the CueCreatorStart.bat file.
3. Press the "Set Library Root" button and browse to the root directory of your music library.
4. By default, the application will save a single cue sheet within each directory where music files are found. The danger here is that there is a possibility that you could overwrite an existing cue sheet. To change this behavior, click on the "Use Custom Output Directory" check box, and browse to the folder where you wish to save all of the generated che sheets.
5. Check the "Use embedded tags when processing flac files" check box if you would like the application to attempt to use information from the tags embedded in flac files instead of folder and file names. This option will increase processing time quite a bit because some flac files contain album art as well. If there is an error reading from the embedded tags, the application will revert to using folder and file names for information.
6. Check the "Use Genre in cue file name" check box if your library folder structure looks like Library Root\Genre\Artist\Album\Songs. This will prepend the genre to the cue sheet file names, which will then be alphabetized by genre->artist instead of artist. When used in conjunction with the option above, the genre can also be read from embedded flac tags.
7. Press the "Process Library" button. The application will show status and notify you when it is complete.

Notes

• The application will work across mapped network drives, but will run slower.
• The file entries in the resulting cue sheets contain the full path to the file, so generally the resulting cue sheets are not transportable across computers.