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swestrupIts been a productive night for me. I've managed to get webigail working again (I guess it gets easier with practice...) and I've managed to find a way to produce a pair of .bin/.cue files from which one can reproduce an Audio CD.
It turns out that a .iso and a .bin file generally have the exact same contents. In each case they are just a dump of the data blocks on a CD. In the absense of a .cue file, the blocks are assumed to be contiguous and form a single track. For data CD's this is correct, so they are distributed just as .iso files.
For an Audio CD, you need to specify where each track begins and ends, and that's what the .cue file does. Some folks also produce a .cdt file which contains metadata like track and artist names. Of course, it took a number of hours of searching to find this out, because it turns out that these are all de facto standards and are documented nowhere. To make it worse, there are competing extensions to .cue files and some programs like cdrdao output the track info in a .toc file instead which has a completely different format.
Anyway, I will mail the URL for the .bin/.cue/.cdt files to whoever is interested (as soon as they finish transfering to the server, that is). I know![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thebabynancy is interested, but is anyone else? If you just want the CD so you can rip it to .mp3 format, its easier just to grab the individual tracks here.
It turns out that a .iso and a .bin file generally have the exact same contents. In each case they are just a dump of the data blocks on a CD. In the absense of a .cue file, the blocks are assumed to be contiguous and form a single track. For data CD's this is correct, so they are distributed just as .iso files.
For an Audio CD, you need to specify where each track begins and ends, and that's what the .cue file does. Some folks also produce a .cdt file which contains metadata like track and artist names. Of course, it took a number of hours of searching to find this out, because it turns out that these are all de facto standards and are documented nowhere. To make it worse, there are competing extensions to .cue files and some programs like cdrdao output the track info in a .toc file instead which has a completely different format.
Anyway, I will mail the URL for the .bin/.cue/.cdt files to whoever is interested (as soon as they finish transfering to the server, that is). I know
thebabynancy is interested, but is anyone else? If you just want the CD so you can rip it to .mp3 format, its easier just to grab the individual tracks here.
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Date: 2005-12-10 03:28 pm (UTC)