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I've always used madFLAC for ImgBurn to convert my FLAC's. I've never come across any high resolution ones, though, apparently, as all the FLAC's I've ever fed ImgBurn with madFLAC "installed" worked.

Most likely, most of those "malicious" positives are for PUP's, which aren't viruses. Most AV software is simply coded too hard and treats PUP's as viruses, even though they're not. Unfortunately, whatever LUK does is just hand off the files. It's the hosts who poison them and he can't do much about it. Granted, I'd think it would best to remove all the hosts from the download page and just offer the unobstructed installer from the lone ImgBurn host. It's the only host I ever get my files from, too.

You'd have to contact the host itself, if they even care. There's only host you can trust and that's the ImgBurn based one. Everyone else gets an untouched file, but they usually add their own PUP's. While not viruses, they're Potentially Unwanted Programs that can get installed if you get click happy.

Thanks! Was just curious.

I noticed when adding a VIDEO_TS folder to a project, ImgBurn automatically does several things to the project to make it DVD Video compliant. One of the things I noticed it does is a Fixing VTS Sectors portion. Is this done by IFOEdit? If so, is IFOEdit a part of the ImgBurn installation? Is it installed somewhere along with ImgBurn? Or is it a portion of code from IFOEdit hard coded into the code of ImgBurn? Or is it entirely original code in ImgBurn? Just curious. Thanks!

I thought that you might have deleted that file unwittingly. When the ZIP is extracted, the .BAT registers the .AX but does not move its location. So, the file must remain where it was unzipped to and the .BAT file run from in order to work.

Oh, I forgot it's not installed by an "installer." It's a ZIP file with a .BAT that registers the .AX. So, the file resides wherever you extracted it from the ZIP file. Make sure you didn't delete the .AX file by accident if you deleted the unzipped folder after running INSTALL.BAT. It has been about 11 years since I last downloaded it.

For what it's worth, the madflac codecs won't show as "installed" in System Information. madFLAC.ax is installed wherever you told it to install in the installer. For instance, in my installation, I direct it to a location on my external USB HDD.

The track list would be "alphabetical" if you imported a list of files from a folder. If there's more than 1 added at a time, they're added in order. Which in the case of a list of files in a folder, they would be listed alphabetically in the folder. If you don't want them added alphabetically, then add the files one at a time to the CUE sheet in the desired order you want them to play on the CD. Alternatively, you can add all the files at once and use the blue up and down arrows on the right side to move tracks into the order you want them to play. Be aware the up and down arrows will NOT work IF you add more running time than a CD can play. Are you saying the order your CUE sheet displays is NOT the order the tracks play in on the burned CD-R? If so, is this on BOTH a standalone CD player AND when you play it on your PC?

So, it's Layer 0. Thanks!

If the input files have metadata, they can be imported into the CUE sheet creation. But, I forget precisely if that's done automatically or if you have to check the Tag button under CD-TEXT. I think you first load the input files and then check the Tag button under CD-TEXT and any metadata will auto populate. If nothing does, then check Custom and enter your own metadata.

Well, now you're all over the map, unfortunately. Now the CD works in your standalone player but not in your PC drive, which is the exact opposite condition from before. If it's going to fail, it would fail in both, but not one or the other AND alternate back and forth. What file you choose to burn, regarding the CUE sheet, won't affect playback on one device versus another. If the CUE sheet is bad, the resulting burned disc won't play back on any device. As for the tracks not being named, only numbered, are you putting in the necessary CD Text fields for that information in the CUE sheet creation?

On a DVD+R DL, is the "visible" burned layer, the one you see when you look at the bottom on the dye side of the disc, Layer 0 or Layer 1? Just curious. Thanks!

Now, that is odd. Nero will generally leave discs in unfinished states, particularly when you're using rewritable media. If any application is going to have a finalizing problem, it would be a Nero one and not ImgBurn. Which is one of the reasons I no longer use Nero products. They don't do the job fully, generally, and will often times overlook errors that ImgBurn catches.

Nothing sticks out to me as immediately obvious. You are using the high quality Taiyo Yuden media. Could still be a reflectivity issue. I believe the standalone CD player simply cannot read the contents from that particular type of CD-R and is assuming it's not finalized. Again, I've never heard of a standalone CD player that checks for something like that, but I've also never heard of a Njoe Troeb 4000 or even Njoe Troeb before. Given the audio CD plays on your PC's optical drive but not in this Njoe Troeb 4000, the fault is most likely in the standalone CD player.

I've never heard of a CD player that even detects if a CD-R is not finalized. Does this CD-R play on any other standalone CD players that you've tried, if any? My guess is it's a read compatibility issue. That the player cannot properly read the contents. It can detect a CD-R has been inserted, but it thinks it isn't finalized. Can you post a log from the burn of one of these CD-R's? I wonder if you're using CMC media and the standalone cannot properly detect any contents on it due to reflectivity issues.

As another baseline, the DVD Video I burned to MCC DVD-R in the above slim Pioneer passed playback test in a PS3.

You can't assume that. It sounds like you're playing the VOB's and not the VIDEO.IFO. This means, most likely, you will never encounter the menus and you can't tell if the menus were corrupt to begin with when created by the converter. Play the VIDEO_TS.IFO file and see if you can get playable menus on your PC. Play both the VIDEO_TS.IFO file from the DVD and from your HDD. If it works on your HDD copy but not on the DVD copy, then something is going wrong when the files are put on the DVD or being read from the DVD by the drive. But that would be down to the DVD burner, not the software burning it.

When you say the files play on your PC, are you playing VIDEO_TS.IFO or loading each VOB to see if they work? VIDEO_TS.IFO will load the menus whereas VOB's are guaranteed to be menu VOB's. Never heard of a BE12LU38 from LG, so I can't comment on its effectiveness. You can rule out if it is ImgBurn that's the culprit, though it's highly unlikely, by creating a DVD Video with this VIDEO_TS in another application and see if the DVD it burns plays.

What ImgBurn CAN do is act as a file backup application. It can backup every file on your drive, but for things like Windows, it won't work to restore much from it to the HDD. In particular, it won't help if your Windows is not booting. Some disk imaging applications, though, like Reflect, have a file backup function in addition to partition imaging backup. That's why I was interested in Reflect to begin with. I was looking for a new file backup application and someone here on the ImgBurn forums suggested I try it. I was also looking for something to replace the continuously buggy releases from True Image, forcing me to use ancient versions. And Reflect became my disk imaging application, as well.

ImgBurn won't do that. You need a dedicated disk imaging application. I use Macrium Reflect, but there are others like Acronis True Image, or whatever the Hell they're calling it now.

Just as a baseline, I got around to burning an MCC DVD-R in that Pioneer USB BD slim model from Verbatim. It completed and Verified without errors. For what it's worth, I've yet to do a playback compatibility test.

Yes, if you burned an Audio CD image to an 80 minute CD-R, it would hold a maximum of 80 minutes of audio. 80 minutes as capacity is a leftover from the original use case of CD's when they were created entirely as a music storage medium. There are other maximum time capacities for different sized CD-R's.

Well, AZO discs are essentially the same as MCC's.

Then, this might be more to your wants. Although I've owned one, I didn't put it through heavy tests: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BY4PZLE/?coliid=I2H5WHEN45R5HS&colid=N0MFH3F0SXRP&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it It was also mostly for DVD and CD reading. I get an internal slim BD included with my Dells, even though I mostly rely on external USB BD half height drives for most of my disc needs.