Support for .bin/cue (Raw PCM) files

The approach is for Roon to support the cue sheet directly. I believe this is archival grade storage of our audio CDs, which contain the catalog and ISRC code for effective ways to identify our music.

*bin/cue files stores an audio disc image composed of one cue sheet file and one or more .bin files. The .bin files are raw sector-by-sector binary copies of tracks in the original discs. These binary .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.

An entire multi-track audio CD may be ripped to a single audio file and a cue sheet. However, the obvious drawback is that software audio players and hardware digital audio players often treat each audio file as a single playlist entry, which can make it difficult to select and identify the individual tracks. A common solution is to split the original audio file into a series of separate files, one per track- which is currently done for ALAC/FLAC/AIFF files.

A cue sheet is a plain text file containing commands with one or more parameters. The commands usually apply either to the whole disc or to an individual track, depending on the particular command and the context. They may describe the layout of data to be written, or Metadata.*

Any consideration here along with .iso formats?

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