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Did you close the log window? That explains what’s happening. Next time you burn, keep an eye on it. The cycling of the tray happens after the burning has completed and it’s about to verify the disc.

New Burner Pioneer BDR-XS07UHHD. Good quality device. Every time I burn a cd or dvd during the process about half way through the cd or dvd will pop out if the device. A pop up opens saying “All attempts to automatically close the drive tray have failed! Note: This is to be expected on laptop style slimline drives. Please close it manually and then click ‘ok’ to continue.” This is really bothersome. I start a burn and leave. I go on doing other things. When I go back thinking the burn will be done I find I have to pop the disc back into the drive and continue the burn for awhile longer. I called my burner company they said the burner should not do this. That it could be the software I was using. Does anyone else have this problem? If not I am going to take it back up with Pioneer.please let me know if it’s only me having this problem. Thanks.

Forgot to mention this. No, you don't use Write Files/Folders to disc to burn Audio CD image files. That just writes whatever files/folders you select to the disc 1:1. Yes, as was said, if they are Audio CD image files, you will need BIN/CUE format files.

Hopefully you have a CUE file to burn?

It's nearly 20 years old and the shown images may be out of date, but the steps should be relatively the same in this old guide:

Hello. New to this. Searched for answer and found none. Please help. Probably simple but need help. Just downloaded a couple Music CD's. Now I want to try to burn them to my new Blank Discs. Also pretty new to ImgBurn. Though I have been using it lately with great success burning DVD's. So, I have my Music ready to Go on my computer and a blank cd in the drive. I open ImgBurn. There are Icon choices. I believe I should choose Write/Files folders to disc. But when I look at choices from the source menu it wants me to choose a dvd movie. So I think I did the wrong thing. I go back and try again. This time I go to the Mode Menu. I click on Write. I can't seem to open my music files this way either . Darn!! I am in DESPERATE NEED OF HELP!!!!! I don't have a clue what I'm doing! Please send me some detailed info on how to set up ImgBurn to burn my wav Music to cd. Thanks!!!!!

There are timestamps all over the file system - and not just creation / modification ones for files / folders, they're the obvious ones. Unless you actually want to read the osta.org udf specs and find out exactly where the date and time is used, that's probably all you need to know.

No idea but you can see the size of the disc I burnt doesn’t match the size of the disc you burnt… and it should have. Mine: I 21:23:45 Source File: C:\Users\Richard\Downloads\Ultra-Lounge Vol. 2 - Mambo Fever (1996)\Ultra-Lounge Vol. 02 - Mambo Fever.cue I 21:23:45 Source File Sectors: 202,950 (AUDIO/2352) I 21:23:45 Source File Size: 477,338,400 bytes I 21:23:45 Source File Volume Identifier: "" - Ultra-Lounge Vol. 02 - Mambo Fever I 21:23:45 Source File File System(s): None Yours: I 19:50:20 Source File: L:\Ultra Lounge\Ultra-Lounge\Ultra-Lounge Vol. 2 - Mambo Fever (1996)\Ultra-Lounge Vol. 02 - Mambo Fever.cue I 19:50:20 Source File Sectors: 202,802 (AUDIO/2352) I 19:50:20 Source File Size: 476,990,304 bytes I 19:50:20 Source File Volume Identifier: "" - Ultra-Lounge Vol. 02 - Mambo Fever I 19:50:20 Source File File System(s): None

How would it only affect one album or file from all of these albums from the same source?

File attributes, meaning file names, read-only, archive bits, etc. all are identical to the source. Yes, I would agree the difference seams to develop in the building process. Unfortunately my knowledge of the ISO structure is limited so I can't easily figure out what is the variable element in the ISO to understand this further. I guess my question about all this was is this normal behavior when using ImgBurn and I think that is what you are suggesting. Although to me it I would not expect the system time to play any role in creating the UDF file structure. What would be the logic to do so? Thanks for your replies.

I had no issue burning and verifying the image you provided. I can only assume the problem is coming from the directshow filter your system is using for flac decoding. Maybe it's making the flac files (once decoded) look smaller than mine is and then the pregap at the end of the file (index 00) is in invalid space and it's messing the whole thing up. W 21:20:14 Operating System has been changed! I 21:20:15 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 21:20:15 Microsoft Windows 8 Professional x64 Edition (6.2, Build 9200) I 21:20:15 Total Physical Memory: 67,039,284 KiB - Available: 42,098,672 KiB W 21:20:15 Drive F:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GiB in size. I 21:20:15 Initialising SPTI... I 21:20:15 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 21:20:17 -> Drive 1 - Info: HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH12LS38 1.03-D0 (N:) (SATA) I 21:20:17 -> Drive 2 - Info: PLEXTOR PX-891SAF PLUS 1.KN (M:) (SATA) I 21:20:17 -> Drive 3 - Info: Optiarc DVD RW AD-5280S 1.Z8 (P:) (SATA) I 21:20:17 -> Drive 4 - Info: DiscSoft Virtual 1.0 (H:) (Virtual) I 21:20:17 Found 2 DVD±RWs, 1 BD-ROM XL and 1 BD-RE! I 21:23:45 Operation Started! I 21:23:45 Source File: C:\Users\Richard\Downloads\Ultra-Lounge Vol. 2 - Mambo Fever (1996)\Ultra-Lounge Vol. 02 - Mambo Fever.cue I 21:23:45 Source File Sectors: 202,950 (AUDIO/2352) I 21:23:45 Source File Size: 477,338,400 bytes I 21:23:45 Source File Volume Identifier: "" - Ultra-Lounge Vol. 02 - Mambo Fever I 21:23:45 Source File File System(s): None I 21:23:46 Destination Device: [0:0:0] PLEXTOR PX-891SAF PLUS 1.KN (M:) (SATA) I 21:23:46 Destination Media Type: CD-RW (Disc ID: 97m34s25f, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp.) I 21:23:46 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 16x, 24x I 21:23:46 Destination Media Sectors: 359,847 I 21:23:46 Write Mode: CD I 21:23:46 Write Type: SAO I 21:23:46 Write Speed: 8x I 21:23:46 Lock Volume: Yes I 21:23:46 Test Mode: No I 21:23:46 OPC: No I 21:23:46 BURN-Proof: Enabled W 21:23:46 Write Speed Miscompare! - Wanted: 1,411 KB/s (8x), Got: 2,823 KB/s (16x) W 21:23:46 The drive only supports writing these discs at 16x, 24x. I 21:23:47 Filling Buffer... (80 MiB) I 21:23:47 Writing LeadIn... (CD-TEXT) I 21:24:05 Writing Session 1 of 1... (18 Tracks, LBA: 0 - 202949) I 21:24:05 Writing Track 1 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 0 - 11544) I 21:24:14 Writing Track 2 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 11545 - 23026) I 21:24:24 Writing Track 3 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 23027 - 34079) I 21:24:33 Writing Track 4 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 34080 - 44409) I 21:24:42 Writing Track 5 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 44410 - 55026) I 21:24:51 Writing Track 6 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 55027 - 68564) I 21:25:02 Writing Track 7 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 68565 - 82896) I 21:25:14 Writing Track 8 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 82897 - 91254) I 21:25:21 Writing Track 9 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 91255 - 102161) I 21:25:30 Writing Track 10 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 102162 - 111366) I 21:25:38 Writing Track 11 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 111367 - 125611) I 21:25:49 Writing Track 12 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 125612 - 135119) I 21:25:57 Writing Track 13 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 135120 - 145604) I 21:26:06 Writing Track 14 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 145605 - 156981) I 21:26:15 Writing Track 15 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 156982 - 167756) I 21:26:24 Writing Track 16 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 167757 - 180974) I 21:26:35 Writing Track 17 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 180975 - 190989) I 21:26:44 Writing Track 18 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 190990 - 202949) I 21:26:54 Synchronising Cache... I 21:27:09 Exporting Graph Data... I 21:27:09 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Richard\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\PLEXTOR_PX-891SAF_PLUS_1.KN_27-MARCH-2025_21-23_97m34s25f_8x.ibg I 21:27:09 Export Successfully Completed! I 21:27:09 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:03:23 I 21:27:09 Average Write Rate: 2,774 KiB/s (14.0x) - Maximum Write Rate: 2,790 KiB/s (14.1x) I 21:27:09 Cycling Tray before Verify... W 21:27:19 Waiting for device to become ready... I 21:27:27 Device Ready! I 21:27:28 Operation Started! I 21:27:28 Source Device: [0:0:0] PLEXTOR PX-891SAF PLUS 1.KN (M:) (SATA) I 21:27:28 Source Media Type: CD-RW (Disc ID: 97m34s25f, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp.) I 21:27:28 Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 10x, 16x, 24x, 32x, 40x I 21:27:28 Source Media Supported Write Speeds: 16x, 24x I 21:27:28 Source Media Sectors: 202,950 I 21:27:28 Source Media Size: 477,338,400 bytes I 21:27:28 Image File: C:\Users\Richard\Downloads\Ultra-Lounge Vol. 2 - Mambo Fever (1996)\Ultra-Lounge Vol. 02 - Mambo Fever.cue I 21:27:28 Image File Sectors: 202,950 (AUDIO/2352) I 21:27:28 Image File Size: 477,338,400 bytes I 21:27:28 Image File Volume Identifier: "" - Ultra-Lounge Vol. 02 - Mambo Fever I 21:27:28 Image File File System(s): None I 21:27:28 Read Speed (Data/Audio): MAX / MAX I 21:27:37 Read Speed - Effective: 40x I 21:27:37 Verifying Session 1 of 1... (18 Tracks, LBA: 0 - 202949) I 21:27:37 Verifying Track 1 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 0 - 11544) I 21:27:51 Verifying Track 2 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 11545 - 23026) I 21:27:59 Verifying Track 3 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 23027 - 34079) I 21:28:06 Verifying Track 4 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 34080 - 44409) I 21:28:13 Verifying Track 5 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 44410 - 55026) I 21:28:19 Verifying Track 6 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 55027 - 68564) I 21:28:27 Verifying Track 7 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 68565 - 82896) I 21:28:35 Verifying Track 8 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 82897 - 91254) I 21:28:39 Verifying Track 9 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 91255 - 102161) I 21:28:45 Verifying Track 10 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 102162 - 111366) I 21:28:49 Verifying Track 11 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 111367 - 125611) I 21:28:56 Verifying Track 12 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 125612 - 135119) I 21:29:01 Verifying Track 13 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 135120 - 145604) I 21:29:06 Verifying Track 14 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 145605 - 156981) I 21:29:11 Verifying Track 15 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 156982 - 167756) I 21:29:16 Verifying Track 16 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 167757 - 180974) I 21:29:21 Verifying Track 17 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 180975 - 190989) I 21:29:26 Verifying Track 18 of 18... (AUDIO/2352, FLAC, LBA: 190990 - 202949) I 21:29:32 Exporting Graph Data... I 21:29:32 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Richard\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\PLEXTOR_PX-891SAF_PLUS_1.KN_27-MARCH-2025_21-23_97m34s25f_8x.ibg I 21:29:32 Export Successfully Completed! I 21:29:32 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:02:02 I 21:29:32 Average Verify Rate: 4,125 KiB/s (20.9x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 5,583 KiB/s (28.2x)

I'm pretty sure some fields in the file system are calculated using the current systrem time. So it'll basically never be 100% identical. What would be the same though is building an iso, burning it and then reading it back to a new iso. It's only the 'building' bit that makes a different iso each time.

This is just a guess, but it could be different metadata causing the different contents. The 2nd ISO's files and contents, though the same, may have different time stamps since those files would have been added later. I don't know if ImgBurn uses the file metadata on the source device or if it creates its own time stamps based on when the files were added to the ISO. Again, this is just a guess, and it's pretty much all I've got on what may be happening here. When you said you compared the file attributes, does that mean the date and time stamps are the same for the files in both ISO's? If they are, then that blows the above theory out of the water, and I've got nothing else.

I know Verbatim used to make inkjet printable CD-RW's but that was years ago. So, I don't know if they still do. They still make inkjet printable DVD-R and DVD+R DL, because I do use those. If I ever got an inkjet printable CD label printer, I'd be future proof. Plus, you can write on them with a marker and not have to worry (Too much.) about the ink leaking through to the data surface. And now I only get the inkjet Verbatim DataLife Plus BD-R. I had some of those already for certain cases where I may want to write a label on them. 90% of my BD-R burns were temporary archive contents, so the branded surface was fine by me. Not anymore, though. I say NO Chinese drives are legit. I once tried to order an LG WH16N60 off of this one web site. The website looked legit even though the price was too good to be true. Had I known the site was Chinese, I would have avoided it. I only ordered from them because Amazon nor anyone else stocked it. What did I get? A cloth COVID face mask for $40 that shipped from China. After speaking with someone in broken English and providing proof they asked me for me the mask they knowingly sent me, the site mysteriously disappeared and the contacts stopped. China either makes junk not worth your paying for or they will actively rip you off. Just look at all the flash drive scams on Amazon.com. Offering ridiculous obvious scams like 16 TB flash drives, which don't exist, for $30. And what you get is hacked firmware that states incorrect free space on a flash drive that's like 32 MB only. So, you don't even get what you wrote to it because the firmware is hacked to overwrite existing data while returning a lie of how much free space is left. Avoid Chinese products and sellers as much as you possibly can.

Thanks. Do you know of any Verbatim DataLife Plus that come with inkjet printable ? I want to be able to print on them so normally use inkjet printables, but I notice the Plus' are thermal. Are there any inkjets that are good still ? Also, do you think this China drive is legit ? I can only get a pioneer bdr 206dbk because that is the only drive compatible with the Bravo SE version 1 as it needs to use the special firmware. They say it is brand new. I am tempted as the only one for sale in my country, the UK, is pre-owned and looks well used. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394986603140

I am using version 2.5.8.0. When I use the “Create image file from files/folders” mode I observe a behavior that I did not expect. I create an ISO (call it ISO1), then I mount it and do a binary comparison to the source data and it verifies correct. Then I create another ISO from the same source files and folders (call it ISO2), then mount it and it also verifies to the same source files correctly. BUT when I hash ISO1 and ISO2 they have different MD5. I also compared the file attributes between the ISO files and they are the same. I also checked the case of the files names and folders and they are the same too. I tried UDF and ISO9600+UDF and ISOs created are not identical. If I binary compare the ISOs files to each other there is a difference but it appears not to be with the file and folder data but in some other area of the ISO files. I also tried different source files and folders and still they are not the same. I have the ImgBurn setting to the default values. I always assumed that ImgBurn would create ISO files that would be identical. Can anyone help me understand why ImgBurn doesn’t create identical ISO files?

Generally, "bad" images don't result in bad burns. Meaning, there's very little data in a disc image that can result in a failed burn. Failed burns are the result of media issues, incompatibility between drive and media, or a dying/dead/defective drive. But, if you're curious and want to test it, you can create a new image in ImgBurn with some dummy data and then write that new image to these same CD-RW in the same drive. I would be willing to bet you'd probably get the same failure results, though. I was pretty sure you couldn't find those DataLife Plus Ultra Speed CD-RW anymore. I was just curious if you bought them new. Then, maybe I could, too. I don't think anyone manufactures Ultra Speed CD-RW anymore. Like how no one manufactures 8x DVD+RW anymore.

Unfortunately this is just an old disc I have. I don't know where to get them.

Actually I just tried writing the image to the "good" cd-rw and it does the same. Does this mean its a bad image? Can I somehow dismiss this error and continue?

But, they are two different beasts. Ultra Speed CD-RW are manufactured differently from standard CD-RW. So, even though Mitsubishi made both, they are not the same. And, for whatever reason, your drive is probably not liking one and liking the other. A firmware update would need to be made to fix that, but no one fixes firmware anymore. Firmware updates are only released for Ultra HD BD's anymore and those are only to shore up encryption vulnerabilities to prevent copying Ultra HD BD. NOT to address any performance issues. It also makes sense the standard CD-RW is working but the Ultra Speed one is not. The 2nd writes faster and therefore needs different firmware instructions to accommodate that. As you increase speeds in media, you get compatibility error increases, particularly as a drive gets older. BTW, can you still get those DataLife Plus Ultra Speed Verbatim CD-RW anymore? If you know of where I can get them, I'd be interested to know. I can only find some straggling Memorex Ultra Speed CD-RW on eBay. They're pretty good quality as far as I can tell, particularly for Memorex, which usually uses CMC crap, but apparently farmed out to Mitsubishi for their Ultra Speed CD-RW. At least, I've had no issues with the Memorex Ultra Speed CD-RW. Thanks!

97m34s23f is also mitsubishi

That seems to indicate it's most likely a compatibility issue. Your drive likes the 97m34s23f CD-RW but doesn't like the Mitsubishi CD-RW. Not much you can do if you're dead set on using the Mitsubishi CD-RW except try a different make, model, and manufacturer of burner drive. It's also possible the Mitsubishi disc came defective from the factory or its reached the end of its write cycle life.

I have another Verbatim CD-RW (the one thats not working is also Verbatim) and it writes perfectly fine. It is a 97m34s23f. My drive is updated to the latest firmware.

You're using the Mitsubishi good media, so it's not that, for a change. My only guess at this point is that your burner doesn't like that particular brand of media. Or the drive may have reached the end of its life or is defective. It's possible a firmware update for that drive might have fixed the incompatibility issue. In Write mode, right click on the drive letter for the target device and choose the last option in the drop down context menu that appears. Should say something like Check for firmware update.

Hello I made an image of this cd-rw now im trying to write it back but im getting error ImgBurn.log