[LAU] iso image from toc?

[plutek-infinity]

>Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:34:39 +0100
>From: pete shorthose <zenadsl6252 at zen.co.uk>
>
>On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:00:46 -0400
>plutek-infinity <plutek at infinity.net> wrote:
>
>> greetings!
>> 
>> starting with a wav and a corresponding toc, from which i would normally burn a master audio cd, is it possible to generate an iso image of the audio cd, so a user on some other operating system can simply burn the iso to a disc, and end up with a clone of my audio cd, including all cd-text and pq coding? i've been searching, but it's not looking very clear how to do it, or in fact whether it CAN be done. 
>
>probably a sematic issue but an iso (iso 9660) is a data cd filesystem standard and audio cds have no filesystem.
>if you mean some sort of raw disk image (and many people do mean this when they refer to an iso)
>then you're best bet may be cdrdao which ships with one of the most popular windows ripper (EAC) and
>is widely available on linux at least.
>
>you would probably want to master your cd then rip it to toc/bin.
>cdrdao has numerous options for read modes and cdtext extraction etc. 
>there are linux tools to convert between cue and toc too, but they are not
>comprehensive iirc.
>windows users will probably prefer a cue/bin (CDRwin/EAC etc) though.
>
>i'm not aware of any single file image (no separate toc) and certainly not
>one that is widely supported on multiple platforms but i tend to stay in my
>own corner of linuxland so that's not saying much.
>
>an alternative would be to distribute the wave files or monolithic wave
>with a toc/cue. most burning softs can handle that kind of thing and the cdtext could
>be included via the toc.

thanks, pete! your conclusions pretty much correspond to mine, so it's good to have them confirmed, at least. yes, i thought "iso" really only referred to a specific, non-audio, filesystem, but was hunting for some single file image for audio cd's, much like the actual iso's for other disks. a friend of mine, who uses macs, says there's a dmg file which is a complete single-file image of a cd, used in protools. perhaps that is proprietary.

cheers!


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