Burn Audio to CD Image ?

[MWRMWR_dn]

I have a set of audio files from which I want to make a good old fashioned Audio CD.

 

Without wasting a lot of real media, I want to produce a CD-image (I can mount images).

 

I am trying to do this under Windows XP but have other systems real or virtual I could use.

 

I came to imgburn because of its build facility - but that seems to relate to writing file-based optical discs and images therof.

 

I can't see that imgburn is going to do this for me - so how I should I go about creating a .iso (.cdr or nrg ...)

image holding CD-Audio format ?

 

Thanks for you advice

Mark

[MWRMWR_dn]

hmm

...found the correct Google incantation and last and this gave me

 

just found http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=5555

 

I'll try again

[MWRMWR_dn]

Nope - just going round in circles again.

 

I can make the .cue file

 

I could write to a REAL drive starting from the .CUE file

 

If I can make it, I can burn an .iso file using this software or any of many othes.

 

 

What I CANNOT DO is generate a .iso file from a .cue file.

 

I note there is a set of profiles for different manufacturers of burner

- surely there should be one for "burning" to a .iso file too ?

 

[using 2.5.5.0 version btw]

[MWRMWR_dn]

Nope - just going round in circles again.

 

I can make the .cue file

 

I could write to a REAL drive starting from the .CUE file

 

If I can make it, I can burn an .iso file using this software or any of many othes.

 

 

What I CANNOT DO is generate a .iso file from a .cue file.

 

I note there is a set of profiles for different manufacturers of burner

- surely there should be one for "burning" to a .iso file too ?

 

[using 2.5.5.0 version btw]

[MWRMWR_dn]

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=7205

 

...says go and use daemon tools.

{Lightning UK wasn't sure why anyone would want an .iso of this !

well, I might not always have a computer handy (or working)

but you are never more than 10 yards from a rat or a CD player

...well for the next 5 years still in the case of CD players)

 

sigh, I have a copy of Daemon Tools somewhere...

[MWRMWR_dn]

Daemon Tools said it didn't like line 3 of the .cue file

 

 

 

Daemon Tools help says:

Can i mount an AUDIO cuesheet which refers to MP3 files?

No, the files must be in *.wav format. We cannot see any sense in mounting MP3 files as they can played directly from HD anyway.

 

...

 

 

Could be getting close ! Best convert those .mp3 then and then create a new .cue

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Surely by now you could have just burnt to a disc and read it back to a BIN/CUE image? You'll never make (and wouldn't want to make) an ISO.

 

ISO is not an image format that audio belongs in.

 

If burning to a real CD (even a CD-RW) is an issue for you, use a virtual burner program. There are a few available if you Google search.

[ianymaty]

A user claims it used IsoBuster to create the .bin from the .cue generated by ImgBurn.

 

If you wanna try and confirm that the solution works, here is the link http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=17675

 

Waiting for your response.

[MWRMWR_dn]

I have now managed this afternoon.

ISO is not an image format that audio belongs in.

I was using loose terminology - I just meant "an image of a CD's contents"

 

VLC was not much good at converting a batch of .mp3 though ok one at a time.

Free converters were looked at but thin on the ground and when I got an AV alert from one I retreated to safer ground and installed Audacity 1.3

 

There I used Export Multiple [Warning don't save any changes to input files - best secure them with read-only or safe copy first as meta-data at least might be adjusted by this approach]

 

Then came back to ImgBurn and reconstructed the .cue file

(also used the CD Text feature with WMPCDText in WMP and Track settings are OK but

I had struggled with IMGBurn resetting fields when I wanted simple track names and my choice of Album/session title; I'll re-visit that...)

 

Used Daemon tools to mount the .cue file and there it was - an Audio CD image

which is mountable and appears to be burnable (with IMGBurn or otherwise)or saveable as CD Image.

 

 

When I can, I will look into the other posted suggestion - so thanks for that.

I have ISObuster on another machine and other ISO ware I will look at wrt .cue files.

 

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Lightning:

LOL - I got the Yoda message and if it is to be a .bin rather than a .iso I don't really care as long as I can back it up and burn it if necessary. I respect the fact that the correct implementation and terminology should be used though.

Same issue identified by PortableUltraISO so I made a .nrg file.

 

I also noted that laptop slimline drives aren't upto programmatic tray-load when I did the verify run. (I try not to use laptoys but right now I am.)

 

I'm loving the cheeky popup messages from IMGburn whenever I do something unorthodox.

 

Anyway, I have dug out a CD-RW and tested with that now and will be trying to get that Title Text fixed now.

YODA.7z