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I know. I have a 1 TB drive connected to my router, and I play from it in most of my devices. But I like to have things on optical discs too. When compared to a CD, a BD-R DL can store hundreds of albums, even in Hi-Res, so even if 50 GB is nowhere near 1 TB, it's still a lot of music in one disc.

You may want to investigate if your 4k Blu-Ray players support playing these albums from a flash drive. If there's a USB port on the player and the unit supports reading large enough flash drives, you could get a 128 GB or 256 GB one and it would do the same job as the BD disc. In fact, the flash drive would have more room. My LG Blu-Ray player supports MP3, FLAC, AAC, and other formats and it reads in from my 1 TB flash drive. So, I could probably store my entire CD collection as lossless containers on that thing.

Because I spent good money in buying albums in Hi-Res, some of which go up to 24-96 and some 24-192. Seems foolish to take away a lot of audio information just to put them on a CD that will contain a single album, when a BD-XL can contain hundreds of them. Even a BD-RL can contain over a hundred albums in FLAC.

whats the best drive i can get that can reliably burn into BD-R dual/triple layer?

why cant you just burn into a cd-r instead? it should still give you about 80 minutes independent from file size (it would compress into cd-quality audio (44.1khz 16bit)).

interesting. i dont use my blu ray drives that much though. so i cant really tell when i had a drive fail. plus im young so i never experienced "peak" cd/dvd burning.

Thanks !! I will give it a go.

It probably does, but not from a BD-XL. That's what I gather from all the reading I've done on several forums, that there's only one player that plays data BD-XLs and it's a Panasonic that is sold only in Japan and is super expensive. You know how it is, the Japanese always have the best electronics in the world.

I've never tried burning any BD-R XL discs with anything on them, so I don't know if my LG 4K Blu-Ray player would playback FLAC from it. I know my LG will play them from a flash drive as I've done that before. I don't know if it supports playing audio containers from optical discs, though.

Not MP3s, just FLACs. But I know the players support the format (maybe the Panasonic doesn't, I can't remember but it's the most finicky when it comes to formats), as I have burned data BD-Rs and BD-R DL with albums in FLAC Hi-Res and they work just fine. In the case of the BD-XL, my Oppo, Sony and Panasonic players just don't even read the disc, all of them give me an error.

Well, it may be dependent on what you're trying to do. You mentioned putting audio content on these discs. Were you attempting to put MP3's or other audio container files on these discs and expect to play them natively from the BD-R XL disc in your player? If so, your player may not natively support playing MP3's from optical discs. It may only play them from flash drives.

Thanks. Well, actually, I was hoping against hope it could be read by my 4K Blu-ray players, but not a single one, not even the Oppo UDP-203, which is a champ at reading all kinds of formats. Seems weird, since 4K Blu-rays are actually BD-XLs with 100 GB, even if they don't get to that amount of space. So in theory they should be able to read them, but I guess the manufacturers didn't care much.

Open Powershell ISE, copy and paste the script. Adjust the source and destination variables and then run it via the 'play' (run) button. It assumes you want to make an iso for every folder within the 'source' path you provide. So you'd have a folder somewhere containing multiple subfolders, each one of which you want put into its own ISO (of the same name).

Can't believe after 20 years of me manually putting VIDEO TS and BDMV folders to ISOs that I have never asked if ImgBurn (or any software) can do this by batch ? At the moment I use TMPGEnc Authoring Works to batch encode 15 or so DVDs/Blu-Ray projects to folders (it can't batch ISOs). Then after I have to ISO up each one using ImgBurn. Is there any way to batch up these folders to ISO images ? If not via ImgBurn any other software that can ? EDIT : I just found this script on this forum, if it can't be done via the GUI how do I use this script ? Thanks everyone.

It shouldn't matter. The file system type is generally independent of the media size when it comes to optical discs. (Older file system types, though, generally ARE, but should not be here with UDF 2.50 and 2.60.) However, I would recommend the 2.50 if your primary concern is getting these MP3's/whatever container format to be recognized on a standalone Blu-Ray player. Using the older one should be more compatible universally with hardware.

I'm getting ready to burn my first BD-XL ever, filled with music albums I bought online for the past two years, and I want to maximize the chances that it will be read by my 4K Blu-ray players. I can't find anywhere if BD-XLs are supposed to be 2.50 or 2.60. Does anyone here know?

I don't think it's necessarily obvious that the ASUS BW-16D1HT is a rebadged LG. The primary indication that leads me to believe it's more than just an LG drive with custom firmware is how long the ASUS lasts. I've had it 1.5 years now and it still works. The LG WH16NS40 and NS60 generally all needed replacing after 7 months of usage for me. And I used the NS60 nearly 10 years, I think.

If you are using a laptop burner, that would be a slim model drive. Slim model drives, in general, are absolutely terrible writers.

It appears you are trying to burn a Dreamcast image. I have used CMC magnetics on my desktop burners and had no issue with a Dreamcast game I burned back in May 2024. yours appears to be a laptop type of burner which I suspect are more finicky in general. p.s. while you can do that if you want, if you got a half-decent PC you can just use Flycast or Redream emulators which in all honesty I prefer over using a real Dreamcast (I still got my original Dreamcast which can read CD-R's).

Yeah, I think it was over a year ago that LG stopped manufacturing NS60's. I got two refurbished ones in reserve from around that point.

impossible for me to find the NS60 drives these days so i cant speak on experience.

Awesome, glad to hear that! I'll try out the new discs once they arrive and report back. Thanks!

Actually, you just told me what I needed to know from the logs. You're using the Life Series DVD+R DL from Verbatim, which means they're CMC Magnetics media. As you've found out, those are the worst quality discs out there. I was going to check the Log for a Disc ID that said CMC. If it did, I was going to recommend the DataLife Plus Series or AZO Verbatim DVD+R DL's. That's where I'd start first to troubleshoot your issue.

Thanks for the response! I ended up closing out the program a little while after posting this and testing out the burned disc, but it was unreadable. To clarify, I'm using Verbatim LifeSeries DVD + R DL 8.5 GB 8x discs. I did come across the references here that those aren't recommended and ordered some of the same in AZO so I'll give it another try when those arrive and see if that changes things. No log at the moment as I'm at work but I can try burning another disc and grab the log just to cover all bases later today.

Can you find the log portion of the burn and copy and paste that here? You can access the Log under Help --> ImgBurn Logs. In the meantime, no, it is far from normal to take an hour to verify a dual layer disc. Unless you're verifying a BD-RE DL. That theoretically could. However, it's definitely not normal to take 10 minutes on layer 0 and then over an hour on layer 1. Also, what did you burn? A DVD+R DL? An 8x DVD+R DL will Verify in like 15 minutes total at the most. It may be possible to skip the Verify, but it's not recommended. In the meantime, you could try to Read that disc, however, I feel the same thing as what you experienced with the Verify will happen. However, if it did complete the Read within a reasonable amount of time, that is a good indication the burn was okay. Not as thorough as a Verify, though, but it's a good sign.