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lol yeah sorry, I've ruled that one out. It's complicated enough without adding a 3rd decoding method - and one that I assume requires me to decode the files first before I can burn them? Hopefully the madFlac people can figure out whatever the issue is and fix it.

If you're sure the files have tags, perhaps you could give me a section of it so I can tweak the code that reads them. If that dodgy file was the only one in the list, the 'Disc' level CD-TEXT should be empty too when set to 'Tag'. (As mentioned before, the 'Disc' level info is read from the first file in the list that contains any sort of tag)

Yeah I thought you had the reading bit covered and I don't really have any intention of doing anything for that. The writing support might not be pretty but it did at least work when I last tried it!

If it won't convert to the specific format required for burning (and enforced by the 'Sample Grabber' filter), there could be an issue. Otherwise the code being used should be exactly what graphedit uses - i.e. 'Intelligent Connect'. I know first hand that the ones I linked to work, so no harm in giving them a try I guess

If the names are going into the cue file then they should really also be in the GUI. What happens if you change to a track that you say doesn't show any cd-text info and yet has a tag (with the tag radio button selected) and click the 'Refresh' button on the right? As for defining at disc rather than track level... that's totally down to you! I don't think there's a right or wrong way of doing it. Each to their own and all that. At code level, I won't/don't use the disc performer for the tracks if the tracks don't have their own specified. It would be a bit of a mess if I started leaving things that don't really belong with the selected CD-TEXT method. As such, all you can do is tag the files properly or go from 'Tag' to 'Custom'. Changing to 'Custom' doesn't wipe out whatever's already in there (or at least I don't think it does!).

Correct.

I very much doubt it or your brothers drive would be the same - i.e. not work. Besides, loads of us have DAEMON Tools installed, myself included.

You need a directshow codec that can handle flac files. http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/downloads.html I've got the 'Latest UNSTABLE (0.73.1936)' ones on my machine and it works ok

ok, 3 before they start turning into an icon + 1 letter

So it reads CD's but not DVD's? Try running a cleaning disc through it. If that doesn't work and you're sure that no DVD's work on it at all, throw it in the bin and buy yourself a new one.

If it won't recognise any discs at all (movies, games, audio etc) the drive might just have broken. Any chance you could take it out of the PC and try it in another one? Or try another drive in your PC?

I run out of room at 1920x1200, I've no idea how you fit everything into 800x600! You can only get 3 things on the taskbar! lol

Thanks, that made it much clearer! Ok, so your drive doesn't appear to be reading the disc in the drive properly - you do have a disc in it yeah? Can it see *any* discs? Like an original CD/DVD disc, not a burnt/writable one.

No, Prevx is showing a false positive.

Check the 'download' page on the website.

What exactly is the problem you're having with ImgBurn?

What Nero says and what Nero does are two very different things SPTI is default, don't change from it unless you have good reason to.

I guess with 800x600 I'll just have to shrink the treeview down a bit by default. No problem, I'll get right on it.

Ah think I see now, if you don't have the tracks themselves set as 'Tag' too then it might not work properly. It's all recalculated when you actually click 'OK' you see and that's what makes the GUI stuff different to what actually goes into the CUE.

It could be the order in which you're doing things as it's just worked ok for me. The Disc's CD-TEXT comes from the first track with valid Tag information... if that helps at all?! I'll have more of a play around later on.

I wonder if it's not just filling in the blanks using freedb info or something? I've just plugged my 3500 back in and EAC doesn't appear to be doing anything special. Even ejecting and reinserting the disc can make that drive return different ISRC info.

I've been thinking about it since you started this topic, but no, it's not possible to enter a manual start LBA for Build mode to work from... if it was, it might be 'do-able' ! As for working out the size, I guess you'd make the CUE containing the audio tracks and then look at the 'Sectors' value once it's loaded into Write mode. The first session leadout/second session leadin take up 11400 sectors. After that it's 6900 per leadout/leadin. So to get the start LBA of the next session it would be the size (in sectors) for the CUE with just Audio tracks, then add 11400 to it.

That's the drives issue really. It's just 1 command to read the ISRC code from a given track, if it doesn't report one then there's not much I can do about it. I haven't messed around with workarounds for buggy drives. EAC has been going for years and so probably has. I'll see what I can do to improve things though. Thanks for reporting it.

I don't really know enough about it, nor am I that much of an audiophile.

Just don't forget that adding ISO's to a session means nothing at all if the ISO's aren't built to be burnt at the position/LBA that ImgBurn will burn them at. ImgBurn will quite happily read a real CD Extra disc to a bin/cue and burn it back. You just can't 'build' one from scratch.