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title: "Cue Point Format"
slug: "cue-point-format"
updated: 2024-11-26T16:42:09Z
published: 2024-11-26T16:42:09Z
canonical: "help.tritondigital.com/cue-point-format"
---

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# Cue Point Format

A cue point is an XML message containing metadata for a stream. The information it contains is logically split into two categories: attributes and custom keys. The example cue point below includes the following six attributes:

- cue_title
- cue_time_duration
- program_id
- track_artist_name
- track_album_name
- track_album_publisher

```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<stwcue xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" version="1" xmlns="http://www.streamtheworld.com/metadata/stwcue-1.0">
    <mount>Test Mount</mount>
    <cuepoint type="track" timestamp="1406569181652" cache="true">
        <attributes>
            <attribute name="cue_title">Summertime Sadness</attribute>
            <attribute name="cue_time_duration">234000</attribute>
            <attribute name="program_id">Test</attribute>
            <attribute name="track_artist_name">Lana Del Rey</attribute>
            <attribute name="track_album_name">Summertime Sadness</attribute>
            <attribute name="track_album_publisher">EMI Music</attribute>
        </attributes>
    </cuepoint>
</stwcue>
```

The **custom keys** in the above example are: **mount** (mount name), **type**, **timestamp**, and **cache**. They are mapped from the corresponding STWCue custom keys [described here](/v1/docs/cue-point-custom-keys).

In order to map the parsed value into the cue point attribute, use the attribute name **as-is** in the key. For example, in the first processor in the [tutorial](/v1/docs/tutorial-creating-a-chain), the **cue_title** key is mapped to the **{title}** variable. That is, it will appear in the attributes of the cue point.