Displaying my Ignorance.

[swestrup]

I have an Audio CD that I would like to make an image of, to distribute to some friends. Before anyone asks, yes I can do so. Its not copyrighted, its the audio tracks for denizsarikaya's memorial service. The individual tracks are already up on my server (when the server is working...) as .mp3 files, but I've gotten a request for an exact duplicate. I suppose I could just copy the individual tracks, but it seemed a better idea to make a .ISO to distribute so that folks can burn a whole image in one go.

The thing is, ISO9660 seems to be for data CD's only, not audio. None of the Image programs I've looked at will make a standard Image file that I could pass around. Nero will make a .nrg file but then someone would have to have Nero to burn a copy. Isn't there some standard Audio CD image interchange format that I could use? I've googled for one, but found nothing. Someone clue me in, please.

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[kinra.livejournal.com]

I know that I have in the past used Nero to store image files for Red Book audio, but you're right, I can't be certain that it wasn't .NRG format. I shall check.

[kinra.livejournal.com]

Apparently it's .NRG, but you could share the tracks and a playlist -- most burning software will produce what amounts to an "exact duplicate" based on the playlist (though it may do silences differently).

In either case, Stirling, that's a beautiful tribute to Deniz and I thank you very much for it. (Incidentally, do you know who contributed to renewing the paid status of her LJ account, and how I can contribute to this to help alleviate the cost?)

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

thebabynancy did, if I am not mistaken.

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

I use "cdrdao" (CD-R Disk-At-Once) to do exact duplicates of audio CDs. It does dump things to files, although I think it's dumped to two files (one is the data image, the other is some kind of index).

[swestrup]

Thanks! It turns out that the standard format for distributing audio CDs is by CUE and BIN files, which cdrdao will happily make, and which most programs I've looked at can burn. Now I'll be able to hand out an image of the CD.

[richgoalie.livejournal.com]

I think either nero or Roxio will "burn to image" as an ISO file.

That iso will work with Roxio, Nero (I believe), and Macs.

[swestrup]

My version of Nero (the latest) doesn't burn anything to ISO files. No idea why. The feature seems to have been removed recently. I can burn to .nrg files, but I would rather have something that anyone could load.

Especially since many of my friends are Linux based, and so can't use Nero or Roxio.

[thebabynancy.livejournal.com]

If I may get the original, and or copies (2) to send abroad to Turkey, and to NYC... that would be wonderful.


Let me know,
:) Nancy

[swestrup]

I was hoping to be able to send you an image file, so you could make as many copies as you wanted, but so far I haven't had any success. If you mail me your new address, I'll burn a couple of duplicate copies and mail them to you by snail mail.

[kinra.livejournal.com]

Stirling, I'm downloading it right now in case you're wondering where all the bandwidth is going.

[jdhobbes.livejournal.com]

You can add the video montage I made if you'd like. If you need the link, I can rustle it up somewhere (you can just put my LJ address as a credit).

[swestrup]

Thanks. The montage is already available here along with the .mp3 version of the Memorial Service.

The current mini project is to help accomodate those folks who need to have something in a format more suited to a cd player than a computer.