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You're welcome! Yeah, most problems we see on this board are caused by CMC junk media. And, most of those problems clear up when people use quality media, like the Verbatim DataLife Plus/AZO kind. It isn't a 100% cure all but it fixes most issues.

The problem is the player does have to be programmed to allow accepting the file inputs from the optical discs. More often times than not, the programmers just allow Blu-Ray Video to be read from BD discs. It's like with DVD Video. For some stupid reason, Sony lets you put Blu-Ray Video on DVD discs but not DVD Video on Blu-Ray discs! NO one would do the first, but the 2nd has merit. Not only do BD-R have coating that resists many scratches, they also can resist fingerprints and even, and I've tested this, Sharpie ink! So, having DVD Video on a resilient BD-R makes complete sense. Plus, BD-R is burned metal oxide as opposed to the organic dye of recordable DVD, so they last must longer. Yes, as long as you get the DataLife Plus BD-R. My experience with 3 batches of the branded Verbatim BD-R indicate they're no longer the quality they used to be. The first batch, burns and Verifies would complete, but be unreadable after a few days. The 2nd batch was fine. The 3rd batch wouldn't even complete Writes. While it's always possible I just happened to get 2 bad batches close together over the course of half a year, it is more likely CMC just crapped out on their Verbatim branded BD-R.

Just wanted to update for the record, tried out the Verbatim AZO DVD + R DL 8.5 GB 8x discs and it worked perfectly! Verifying was much quicker and discs work great. Thanks!

Well, 4K Blu-ray players do just fine with BD-R DL discs. In fact, I burned one today filled up to 99% according to ImgBurn and my players read it and play it just fine. The thing about flash drives, SSDs, hard drives, etc, is that one screw-up and everything gets deleted. Well, with hard drives, you just take it for granted that one day it's not going to work anymore. But they are all erasable. With BD-Rs, as long as it's Verbatim and not Memorex or some other crappy brand, you know that it's going to last several years, and it can't be erased accidentally. So I know that ten years from now, that disc I burned today will still work just fine. Also, BD-Rs have a coating against accidental scratches.

But it doesn't matter if the player doesn't natively support playing the files from an optical disc like it might from a flash drive. However, as you say, I like having optical disc archives, too. So, you could put these albums on BD-R XL discs as well as on flash drives.

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.