Welcome to CueCart

What CueCart is, who it's for, and the handful of ideas that make it tick.

Getting Started · Updated 2026-06-30

CueCart is a broadcast-grade audio cartwall for Windows — a grid of pads that fire your preloaded audio the instant you hit them. Stings, beds, jingles, drops, sound effects, music: one tap (or one key) and it plays, with no spin-up. It's built for live, time-critical work where "almost instant" isn't good enough.

Who it's for

• Radio & broadcast — jingles, beds, news carts and show opens.
• Live events & front-of-house — walk-ons, stingers and playback cues.
• Theatre & stage — sound cues fired on the line.
• Houses of worship — service playback and transitions.
• Podcast & streaming — drops, idents and segment beds.

The ideas behind CueCart

A few concepts run through the whole app. Once these click, everything else follows:

• Set — your show, saved as a single .cuecart file. It holds all your banks, cues, colours and settings. Open one and you're ready to play.
• Bank — a named page of pads within a Set (for example Jingles, Beds, Music). You arrange your show across banks and switch between them live.
• Cue Pad — a single pad that plays one audio clip. It carries its own name, colour, volume, fades and playback behaviour.
• Library — CueCart's internal organisation of your media, kept separately from how the files happen to sit on disk.
• Package — a portable .cuecartpkg that bundles a Set and its audio, so you can move a whole show to another machine.

What you need

• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
• An audio output device — your built-in output is fine to get started; a dedicated audio interface gives you the lowest latency and headphone cueing.

That's it. CueCart plays fully offline — your sets and audio never leave your machine. (Activating your licence and checking for updates are the only steps that use the internet.)

Where to next

• Getting started — install and fire your first cue.
• The main window at a glance — a tour of every part of the screen.
• Licensing & activation — your free trial and one-time licence.