MWRMWR_dn Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWRMWR_dn Posted April 23, 2011 Author Share Posted April 23, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWRMWR_dn Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 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] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWRMWR_dn Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 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] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWRMWR_dn Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWRMWR_dn Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianymaty Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWRMWR_dn Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 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. ========== 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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