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ImgBurn can burn any kind of optical disc image you throw at it. As long as the Blu-Ray is not encrypted, ImgBurn can even copy it, although the legality of copying BD Video is up in the air depending on where you live in the world. As for BD authoring software, open source or not, I've never used any. Although for about 20 years now, I've used ConvertXToDVD to make DVD's and I think the same company makes ConvertXToHD, which would make BD Video. However, it's not open source.

I remember saving BASIC programs on audio cassettes. In fact, in the BIOS of even modern computers, there is still the I/O interface for data transfer between audio cassettes for backwards compatibility. I think it was initially supported all those decades ago and just forgotten about. Where I last worked, for the first 3 years I was there, we saved things on reel to reel tape! We had a 1970's mainframe that was nearly as tall as I am and I'm 6' 6.5"!

What age are we talking? I turn 51 on January 25th. I've been working with some sort of computer since I was 10 in 1984. TI's, Commodore 64, TRS-80, 286, 386, 486, Pentium, and onward.

We all gotta start somewhere. I burned my first CD 25 years ago, so I've got a wealth of experience.

I use ConvertXToDVD to make DVD's that ImgBurn can burn, but CXD is not a free program. It depends on what authoring program you use does as to how to burn a disc. If it creates an ISO, use this guide: If it creates a VIDEO_TS folder, use any of the following guides, depending on whether the size means you need to a double layer recordable DVD or not: Now, there are other things to take into consideration for creating a DVD that just "plays." The disc quality matters, so don't use Verbatim Life Series. Use Verbatim DataLife Plus series or Taiyo Yuden/CMC Pro. But ONLY Pro CMC! NO other CMC discs like the Life Series! Plus, the DVD player hardware matters. You can have the best discs in the world and do everything right, but if you have a lousy player with a crap laser in it, it may not play it.

Oh, wait... you're the one who keeps getting Topics closed by LUK. I think I'm being trolled here.

I've burned maybe 5 M Disc and probably less. So, I don't know if they do have a good archival length. I can tell you back when Verbatim made a quality BD-R with the branded blue and white discs line, which they don't anymore, they lasted at least 8 years. That's how long it was between burning some and my reading the data off of them at one point. I don't know about the last question, but SSD's and flash drives are prone to electron bleed, so they're not recommended for archival storage. Don't know how SD cards store data, so I can't say.

It will be exposed to heat for a longer time but burning at 4x would increase the heat but burn it quicker. So, who knows which is the better? There's no specific functions you need to configure. The only user selectable option that would increase a burn quality is lowering the write speed.

You would lose M Disc support only in so much as the entire drive may be turned useless by bad firmware. I don't recommend anything when it comes to trying out firmware that I don't know the source of. I just provide the options and others have to decide if they want to do it.

Ah, I failed to notice the F designation. The iHAS122 base model does not support M Disc. I found very little on the F, but there was a post on these forums where someone said they burned M Discs in theirs. The problem is, there are F firmware out there, but they may be home brew. For instance, there's this: https://burners.burn4free.com/atapi/atapi-f-driver.htm but it may be custom, so use at your own peril. Plus, that link seems to be a general software updater, which 1.) may or may not work and 2.) may install Xaitox knows what as crapware on your PC. There is another possible snag. Some firmware updates are available, but they are only applied at the factory. For instance the latest firmware for ASUS's BD burner is 3.11, but it's locked down so it can't be hacked, which means it's only applied by ASUS to units at the factory.

As far as I know, there's no software that can tell you if a drive is M Disc capable or not. If a drive is, it will have the M Disc logo on its front somewhere. You have to look up the drive specifications online. As for the iHAS 122, it does not support M Disc. As for software for updating the firmware of the drive, that's not generally how it works. There is no specific software that will generally say "Oh, there's an update for your drive." Some companies might release proprietary software for their hardware that might do that, but it would be hardware specific. However, while it's not a surefire way, you can try using ImgBurn to see if there's a firmware update. In Write mode, right click on the drive letter and choose the last option in the context menu that pops up, the option to check for a firmware update. ImgBurn will poll firmwarehq.com against the drive ID string the hardware returns. However, the only really surefire way is to check the manufacturer's support page for the drive.

CMC Magnetics makes the worst discs out there. I don't know what CMC stands for, but I say it should stand for the following: Crappy Media Company!

Probably the filters ImgBurn is using to convert the source input tracks to Audio CD. Particularly if this Ashampoo doesn't do the same thing. That tells us the files themselves aren't the issue, just the format. You're most likely doing nothing wrong. If you want to continue using ImgBurn to make your Audio CD's, you may need to convert the input files to FLAC first. Many times, I've had to convert inputs for ImgBurn before it can use them. I use something called freac Free Audio Converter. You will also need to download and "install" something called madFLAC before ImgBurn can process FLAC files.

Depends on what you mean by Easter Eggs in the middle of an album. If you mean bonus tracks and you have 10 FLAC's, just add the extra FLAC after the 5th one. If you want other kind of Easter Eggs, you'd have to make a Mixed Mode CD. It plays a standard Audio CD when played in a CD player, but on a PC, there's another data track. I don't remember if ImgBurn can make Mixed Mode CD's as I haven't made one in like 20 years.

The sad fact of the matter is Verbatim BD-RE DL are not good quality. I used to use them. I would write something to them as a yearly backup. I would then write the next year's backup to a disc that had worked and it failed to write to the disc. So, those discs aren't warranted for longer term storage. Also, what burner were you using? (The requested Log would tell us.) If you're using the WH16NS40, be aware that though they said they wrote to BD-RE DL, they never did it right in the time I was using them. Failing to read at 50% is indicative of the layer change. The layer change on any multi-layer media is the point of highest failure rate.

So, it was something in BDStudioLite.

Two things I'd look into. First, is this incorrect sounding audio on a CD player or on your PC? If it's on your PC, try playing it in a CD player and see. If it's in a CD player, try playing it on your PC if you haven't done either yet. While you're waiting for someone else to chime in, I'd take your WAV's, convert them to FLAC, install madFLAC for ImgBurn, and see if you get better CD results burning FLAC files. I use something called freac Free Audio Converter.

Oh, I never made the connection that FLAC files may be just being copied to the CD as a data disc. That would explain why the files could be played but a player may not play the disc. But, it doesn't explain the skipping in between the tracks unless that's down to the player and a laser read issue. Which would be down to the player not liking that particular CD brand. I mentioned madFLAC earlier. Download it, "install" it, and use Create CUE to make an Audio CD. See if your player plays that disc as an Audio CD.

The inkjet printable media may not be compromised. The inkjet BD-R are listed specifically as DataLife Plus discs. DataLife Plus are the higher quality Verbatim CD-R, DVD+/-R, and DVD+R DL. So, the inkjet discs I have some hope for. I think it's just the branded blue and white discs that used to be high quality are no longer so. They've gone the way of the Life Series, just without that label on them.

Verbatim BD-R are NO longer the high quality media they used to be. I've had 3 stacks of 50 discs lately. The first stack was defective. They would complete burns and Verifies but over 3/4 of them were unreadable a week later. The 2nd stack was just fine, so thinking I got one bad batch, I got a 3rd stack. I've burned 5 so far. Only 1 completed. 3 of them failed to complete Write and one failed at Verify. This behavior was observed on both an ASUS BD and an LG WH16NS60, so it is not down to the drives, but the media. So, avoid Verbatim BD-R at all costs now! At least, avoid the discs with the blue and white branded surfaces like these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GSQ4DBM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8 I will see if the inkjet printed ones I sometimes get are still any good. I don't hold out high hopes.

Sounds like a player issue. Particularly since it works on your PC in PowerDVD. Or something that BDStudioLite is doing. ImgBurn burning the contents would have no bearing on the aspect ratio of the playback.

That is some new information I wasn't privy to before. If the player plays MP3's off of the discs but not Audio CD of the disc, that seems more of a laser read issue. And that could possibly be fixed by trying different better quality media. Particularly since you said there is weird spacing between the MP3 "tracks." That sounds like a playback compatibility issue, which could be fixed by better quality discs or could be down to the player not liking to play from CD-R or that particular CD-R kind. The fact that you're using FLAC shouldn't be an issue when making an Audio CD as long as you "installed" madFLAC before attempting to create the CUE. Even if you only have the one super long track. I've done many Audio CD-R using FLAC's that were like an hour long.

While it's not 100% certain the cause, I would blame this: I 13:21:48 Destination Media Type: CD-R (Disc ID: 97m26s66f, CMC Magnetics Corp.) The CMC Magnetics Verbatim discs are some of the worst in the world. Even though CMC owns Verbatim, CMC makes the trash discs all over the Earth. So, while Verbatim can be the best CD-R out there, you have to have the RIGHT Verbatim discs. You'll want the DataLife Plus/AZO series, NOT the Life Series you find in brick and mortar stores. The DataLife Plus/AZO are generally only found in online stores. So, I would first start by dumping the CMC discs. Over half of all problems on these boards go away when people stop using CMC junk (Usually unaware there's a problem with them.) and switch to the higher quality discs. As I said, it may not be the answer to your problem. It could be your CD player doesn't like CD-R or those particular type of CD-R. Particularly, older CD players have issues with CD-R's.

Yes, Super Audio CD's were a mixture of an odd beast. Sony intended it to be the successor of the Audio CD format, but it was closer in execution to the DVD book standard. It was essentially a "data" DVD. (Technically, unlike CD's, all DVD discs are "data" discs, as the DVD Video disc is a category of data DVD.) The discs were DVD in structure, but hybird SACD's had an Audio CD layer on them so a standard CD player could play music from them and an SACD player could access the more contents on the DVD layer.

What exactly is this an ISO of? Given its name Billy Joel - The Stranger (1977) [SACD] (1998 Remaster ISO) it seems it may not be a DVD Video disc. That could be why the LG player is throwing an error message. What are the contents in the root directory of this disc? Put it in your PC drive, open its root directory contents in Windows/File Explorer and make sure there's a VIDEO_TS folder there. If there isn't, then it isn't a standard DVD Video disc and won't play by just inserting it in a player. SACD may be the key here. SACD was the Super Audio CD format. That's probably why the player won't play it. The player may not support Super Audio CD, given how not widely adopted the format was. In fact, only hybrid SACD's will play on a CD player because they have an Audio CD layer. SACD's also had specific copy protection mechanisms on them, which means ISO's of SACD's may not be viable.