Writing an audio CD as ISO image is a no-no: the closest you get is a .CUE file that links to either WAV files or a BIN/IMG image
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/10/10
Recently I had to create an Audio CD image to record it on a bunch of recordables to do some comparisons.
One of the things I learned is that you cannot create a CD ISO image file from a bunch of 44.1 Khz PCM encoded stereo audio WAV files.
The reason is that ISO images contain a file system, whereas audio CDs don’t (and contain their index in the sub-track data).
Since most CD software do not support the DDP format, the easiest way to go is .CUE/.BIN way:
- Create a .CUE file that refers to the .WAV files (for instance by using the ImgBurn Tools -> Create CUE file option)
- Mount that .CUE file as a virtual audio CD using a virtual CD mounting tool like DAEMON tools
- Capture that .CUE/.BIN combo (some software uses .IMG instead of .BIN)
- Burn the .CUE/.BIN combo to physical CDs
Probably there are shorter steps (by shortcutting the mounting), but this worked fine for me.
–jeroen
A video showing the above steps:
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