xvgi Posted March 23, 2011 Posted March 23, 2011 Firstly, what a great program! I’d heard about Imgburn for years but only recently installed it and tried it out. I previously tried EAC but found it too complex for my needs. This is my question if anyone would be so kind as to venture an opinion: I have hundreds of audio CDRs containing music I’ve ripped here and there and stuff other people have given me. I know CDR technology is unreliable and somewhere down the line I might find the CDs unplayable. So I need to back up on an external HD. Now I am familiar with Imgburn it’s occured to me that I should just go through my CDRs, create BIN/CUE files from them and then store the BIN/CUEs on my external HD. And then if the day ever comes when I find I can’t play a CDR I just go find the relevant BIN/CUE file and burn another CD. It seems like a no-brainer to me but before I take the plunge (this job will take a long time) I thought I’d just run it past the good people here. Do other people do this? I can’t see any problem with it (assuming that BIN/CUEs aren’t suddenly going to become obsolete at some point). One last thing, is there any easy way of understanding the diff between BIN/CUEs and ISOs? From what I can tell, BIN/CUEs tend to be used for audio, and ISO for other data. Is that about it? Thanks to anyone who might like to comment....
LIGHTNING UK! Posted March 28, 2011 Posted March 28, 2011 ISO is ok for single session/track 'Mode 1' data images. For everything else, another format should be used. BIN/CUE is one such 'other format' - but really it's just for CDs. If you have enough space to 'backup' all your Audio CDs in BIN/CUE format on one or more hdds, that's fine.
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