Oblarg Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 (edited) I'm attempting somewhat fairly odd - I want to create an image of an audio CD from a collection of mp3 files. Not an mp3 CD, an audio CD, such that if I mount it in my virtual drive (currently using alcohol 52%) the OS will see it as an audio CD. I know that you can't do this with ISO's as they're restricted to CDs which contain files, so I'm attempting to do it with BIN/CUE. I've figured out how to make the CUE file, but I can't figure out how to make the accompanying BIN file of the uncompressed .cda audio. Does anyone know how I'd go about doing this? Am I even approaching it in the right way? Is it possible? Edited November 18, 2010 by Oblarg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 ImgBurn can make the CD with MP3 files, but, I don't know if it can with .CDA files. I've never tried that. However, you have to take an extra step to create the BIN file. Use the Create CUE tool under Tools and drag and drop the .CDA/.MP3 files. If ImgBurn doesn't support .CDA, then it should tell you, I would think. Add any metadata, etc. to the .CUE file and create the .CUE file. Load the .CUE file for burning (If you already created the CUE file with some other program, you should be able to just load that CUE file for burning.) and you'll need to actually burn the CUE file to a disc. So, use a CD-RW or if you want to use a CD-R, go ahead. After it's burned, use the Read Mode/Create image file from disc in ImgBurn and read the disc you just burned to an image file. It will create BIN/CUE automatically from the disc. I use Alcohol 52% and, if my memory serves me correctly, it does support mounting CUE files as virtual drives. I have used it long enough to remember a point when it didn't, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblarg Posted November 18, 2010 Author Share Posted November 18, 2010 Ah, you see, the reason I'm doing this is my CD burner is busted - I'm attempting to do this all virtually. The problem is most software seems to support decoding the mp3's to write them to an actual disk, but not to a disk image. It's infuriating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblarg Posted November 18, 2010 Author Share Posted November 18, 2010 Problem solved! Nero was able to do it. Sorry for the double post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 Ah, you see, the reason I'm doing this is my CD burner is busted - I'm attempting to do this all virtually. You should have mentioned that in your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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