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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.

What I guess you have to understand is that what I added is BIN/CUE support in Read/Write mode. Nothing more, nothing less. Audio CD support is only in there because those modes now support CUE files. To be able to work with (read/write) CD Extra discs, I also needed multisession support. The 'Create CD CUE File' is exactly what it says, it makes a text file, that's all. There's nothing clever behind it. Don't try and make it into something it's not. It's not designed with any particular disc type in mind - i.e. it's not actually for making an Audio CD, it just happens to be able to. Without it, the only way to write an audio cd would be to first 'Read' it from a disc or have an existing image. I knew that wasn't going to be enough, hence the reason for it's existence - although in a very generic sense. It's an 'Advanced' feature and the 'Session' button is really only there for completeness as it's supported by the CUE file implementation. The feature simply provides a means of doing something (making a basic CUE file). It's down to you (the hopefully knowledgeable end user) to ensure that the whole thing actually works.

Anything that's not divisible by 16 (sectors) will be padded by the drive when you burn to DVD+ media. That's it, end of story! It's not for me to know/say if the xbox guys have taken that into account, you'll have to run that by them.

Yes sorry you're way off. ImgBurn can't be used to create a CD Extra disc from scratch (why would you ever want to?!) but it'll read / write an existing one. The 2nd session option in the 'Create CD CUE File' option can only be used when the data track you're adding has been created with the appropriate starting LBA. Otherwise all the LBA's will be starting from 0 when really session 2 might start at LBA 100000. It would also work if you'd extracted the cd-da/data tracks off a cd extra disc as individual files - rather than an image. I hope that clears things up.

Assuming the image is correct in the first place, you've nothing to worry about. Everyone is in the same boat because they all use DVD+R DL media and all the drives will pad out to the nearest ECC block.

DVD+ (plus) format media will always burn so the total number of sectors is divisible by 16 (the size of an ECC block). The drive does this itself.

No, pre-BenQ I'm afraid, it's the Dell 2407

lol you should try 1920x1200 That said, I only use that res because I have a big screen. 19" is pretty much the standard with most new PC's these days. 1024x768 is probably all you'd want on a 15".... it's just everything looks MASSIVE in 800x600 and totally kills the user experience, not to mention websites etc word wrapping like crazy!

As mentioned above, you can't make an ISO to shove on the end. It's has to have come from a disc where it was already in the exact same LBA or the file offsets will all be off and it'll die a horrible death! That said, it shouldn't not burn and then not give you an error. I'll look into it. It copes with real CD Extra discs just fine - like via Read -> Write.

To be honest, it's a quick and dirty box, I didn't pay massive attention to validating everything (and I'd probably not even though about those two!). I'll tweak it for the next release