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CD-TEXT is recorded with different packet numbers/identifiers on the disc. It's easy to go between disc level and track level where the 'performer' is concerned. 'performer' is just used for readability in the CUE file. It just sounds like your player has an incomplete implementation.

What happens if you remove the top level 'PERFORMER' one? Does your player then use the individual track level ones?

You're burning an audio cd, there are no files on the disc at all. Play the disc in a CD player.

Yeah, I can't see that happening. If you want to burn M-Disc discs, get yourself a new drive that supports doing so.

I very much doubt the file is there at all. Windows can just add these things at run time when you're browsing with Explorer.

Correct, this is something the firmware handles, not the software. Software has very little control over anything!

No, the issue isn't to do with it being 1 large file. Your drive just seems unable to produce a decent quality burn on those discs. As I very much doubt there are any alternative triple layer M-Disc discs available, you'll probably have to give up and / or get another drive. Most of the default settings will work fine. You will have change the file system selection one to just 'UDF' though.

There's no magic at work here, if your drive can't burn the discs properly then using different software isn't going to change that. You'd have to look for firmware updates for the drive (that solve the issue you're having), use a different drive entirely (that doesn't have the issue) or use different discs and hope your drive does a better job with them.

You can adjust what Windows does when you put a disc in the drive via 'Control Panel\Programs\Default Programs'. Just copy + paste that into the address bar of an Explorer window. Windows 8 doesn't play DVDs by default, so you'll need a 3rd party application to do it. Try Media Player Classic-HC or VLC etc if you want a free one. For a paid one, PowerDVD.

That's how a DVD Video disc is supposed to look. Play the disc in a DVD player.

The disc burnt and verified ok, so it should be fine. What can't play it?

I've looked into the function (not my own) called to extract the quoted string and it looks like you could work around it by removing the outermost pair of quotes. If it doesn't detect a quote at the start of the string, it's classed as a non quoted string and is then left alone. So... PERFORMER "The "5" Royales" would become PERFORMER The "5" Royales Note, this is untested.

You can't, it just creates cue files and burns them.

There's no special handling for this, so there's nothing you can do to make it work at present I'm afraid. I'll see what I can do for the next release.

Post the log of the mds burn+verify please. You may find there's nothing wrong with the non-working bin/cue files and it's just that your PS1 can't read the discs. They weren't designed to read CD-R discs and can be fussy about which ones you use, not to mention some drives doing a better job of burning certain discs than others.

If there's something you're looking for that it can't do, by all means replace it. Otherwise, what are you expecting the difference to be?

There's nothing in the installer besides ImgBurn itself and the OpenCandy plugin ( http://www.opencandy.com/ ) that inserts 3rd party product offering 'pages' within the installation wizard. If you don't want what you're offered on those pages, simply opt out of installing them.

You've updated the bios on the board yeah? According to the family tree info, your board uses an ATI chipset. Take a look at their website for drivers for motherboards / sata controllers. It might be worth trying the ElbyCDIO interface to see if that can bypass anything that's messing things up. You'll do have to install an Elaborate Bytes / Slysoft product in order to get that installed.

Right click the drive selection box and pick 'family tree'. Close the prompt that comes up and then copy and paste everything from the log window.

Are you talking about an option under 'Database' -> 'Get CD Information From' ? Go into 'File' -> 'Drive Options' and tick the box on the 'Drive' tab to say your drive can read CD Text. EAC is an advanced tool and needs a bit of configuring.

Open it in notepad and edit away.

Can EAC do everything you need?

With 20 seconds between each retry, it would appear your drive really is trying its hardest to find a suitable power level for the laser for the media you're trying to use... its just unable to do so. A firmware update may help... http://www.firmwarehq.com/LG/GH24NSB0/files.html After that, you can try adjusting the write speed down to 8x, cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc and using different discs. If it still fails, I'd be looking at buying another drive. Oh and no, burnproof doesn't mean that.

The defaults should work just fine. Post the log please and go into device manager and check the drive is listed there ok - post a screenshot too if possible.

Then you're lucky. Your drive is reporting a 'write error', there's nothing I can do about that. It's tell the program is can't write to the disc for some reason (optodisc are junk) All recent (last 10 - 15 years) drives follow the same command set (detailed in the MMC specs), so ImgBurn supports all drives that comply with that spec. There are a couple of things you can adjust that might make your drive behave differently, but if your drive/firmware/media combo was working correctly, such changes shouldn't be necessary. Things to change are... 1. Enable the 'Perform OPC before write' option. 2. Write type to 'Incremental'. Obviously you aren't going to read threads on here about successes with a drive, nobody is going to bother posting if they *don't* have a problem.