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As your entire machine is stuck, you can bet ImgBurn is just waiting for some I/O to finish processing... which of course it won't if it's stuck. As to why your machine is getting hung up, I have no idea I'm afraid. Please post the log at the point where it's stuck. Please also tell me what's written in the status bar of the main window. This will usually tell you *exactly* what the program is doing. If you say you're using the esata port (you said it's an external drive yeah?), the drive is probably on the jmicron controller. Optical drives don't like being on those 3rd party chipset controllers. Ensuring the bios for the controller is up-to-date and that you have the latest drivers from jmicron themselves may help.

Your drive doesn't appear to support the discs you're trying to use... or it's very dirty and can't initialise them properly.

Were you prompted to pick a layer break position?

Sorry, no, you'll just have to try it and see what happens.

It installs the same way any software installs. Download the setup program and run it. If you've got software installed on your machine that's preventing you from downloading or installing it, you'll have to add an exception to it or disable it for a few minutes whilst you do what you want to do.

Add an exception or just disable them for a second. Mbam defaults to ignoring pups on my system. It does find it though, the prompt just defaults to 'ignore'.

It's a windows thing really but it may store your preference in a system/hidden file within the folder... I don't know. Maybe in the desktop.ini file and that's probably filtered out!

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.