Q: "I have written a CD with AUDIO tracks and not closed it and now I want to add more tracks. In other words is multi-session for audio tracks possible?"

2 QUESTIONS ONE ANSWER...

Q: "I burnt a CD with MP3 files on it and AUDIO files however when I play it in the HIFI why is there a blank half hour track where the first song should be?"

A: Audio CD-players are only able to deal with audio tracks stored in the first session. In other words, you cannot add audio tracks using subsequent sessions. However, writing data tracks into the second session effectively hides them from audio CD-players. This way you prevent having a silent track on your mixed mode CD (audio and data mixed).

Q: What is the best tool for burning CD images

A: For .ISO/ .BIN & .CUE /.NRG files use Nero, and for .CCD/. SUB use CloneCD.

There seems to be some confusion about .IMG files. I cannot open these in Nero like some people seem to be able to. I would not recommend changing the name to .BIN like some people do. Try opening them in CloneCD

 

Q How can i fit more music on an audio CD?

A: you can overburn by a few minutes, but you need to experiment with this to see if it works with your burner, yuor discs, and your hi-fi. Another way of fittting more songs on is to remove the 2 second gap between each track (You can do this in NERO). Also, you can edit some songs that have large gaps at the start/end and remove the blank part (You can do this in NERO). Also, you can merge tracks so that as one ends and fades away the next track is fading in (You can do this in NERO). These methods can give you 10 minutes of extra songs. You can even change the speed of tracks. Speed it up, and you can fit more on.

Burning a Bin/Cue file

Verify the CUE-sheet and open it with Nero

Before doing anything else you have to verify that the path in the CUE-sheet is correct. A CUE-sheet is a plaintext file describing the structure and the location of the BIN-file. You can open up the .CUE -file using, for example, Notepad.

The file should look something like this:

FILE "IMAGE.BIN" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00

Usually the CUE-filename and the BIN-filename have the same body -- e.g. IMAGE. All you need to do is verify that there is no path information on the
FILE "IMAGE.BIN" BINARY
-line. Ie. it should not read e.g.
FILE "C:\TEMP\IMAGE.BIN" BINARY
If there is any path information on the line, just remove it so that you have just the name of the .BIN-file as in the example above. Also make sure that the name of the .BIN in the CUE-sheet is the same as the actual .BIN file you have on hard-disk.

Load the CUE-sheet in Nero

Next load Nero Burning Rom and choose File, Burn Image....

Choose the Files of Type: dropdown menu and select All Files *.*. Next just locate the .CUE file, select it and click Open. Make sure you select the .CUE -file, not the .BIN -file.

Burn the image
All you have to do then is choose the writing speed, select the Disc-At-Once Write Method, and click Write.

That's it! After a couple of minutes you'll have a CD with the BIN/CUE Image written on it.

Notice! Nero is not capable of handling all kinds of BIN/CUE Images. If you have problems using Nero for your image file, you should take a look at CDRWin instead.

What if I don't want to burn the image, I just want to see the files....

Daemon Tools:
Nice application which creates a virtual CD-ROM on your PC which will allow you to "mount" the *.bin file directly therefore no need to burn to CD. Excellent for Games, VCD's etc and checking a bin before burning.

ISOBuster:
Use this to extract file[s] from a *.bin image without burning to CD. This is useful for extracting the MPEG from say a VCD *.bin file.

Burning an .ISO or .NRG file.

These are standard CD images, the contents of the image correspond exactly to the data which will be written to the CD. Use Nero to make an image file of a CD that you want to burn often (Go to Recorder/Choose Recorder and set to Virtual Recorder then burn the CD as normal but instead of asking for a blank CD-R it will ask for a filename for saving the image.), then whenever you need another copy use NERO (FILE/BURN IMAGE) to create a CD from the image.

Burning an .MDF or .MDS file.
How do I burn these files?
Use ALCOHOL 120%. Open the MDS file and burn.

 

How to burn an .mdf file without a .mds?

simply use Daemon Tools to open the MDF file (Select ALL FILES on the OPEN page).

 

How to burn a bin file without a .cue file

simply use Daemon Tools to open the .BIN file (Select ALL FILES on the OPEN page).

Burning a .CCD file.

Use CloneCD for this

 

How to copy a DVD

Most DVDs have protection so you will need to be running some software to remove the CSS protection. You may also need to change the region (if for some reason you are copying a different region DVD). The other problem is films on DVD are too large to fit onto normal blank DVDs, so you can't simply use NERO to copy a DVD.

Here is the solution...

1. Run SmartRipper to copy it to your hard disk first This will remove all the protection.

2. Run DVDShrink on those files.This will shrink the files down to fit on a standard blank DVD+/-R. It will also allow you to compress the menus and extras more than the actual movie, and remove all the foreign soundtracks.

Tthis software is free but can be hard to find. If you have NERO installed then DVD-SHRINK will burn the DVD for you.

Burning a Dreamcast Game

Suitable for all MIL-CD compatible Dreamcast systems, which is every console from October 2000 and earlier. After that time MIL-CD reading was removed from the last few Dreamcast consoles as Sega realized it was contributing to piracy.

TIPS

--- Download the images from file sharing programs such as eMule.

--- ifyou unzip/unrar a file, always check the files you create, there may be more zip/rar files.

--- if there is an unpack and an inject file then run unpack (which probably makes a pile of mp3 files into larger wav files), then run inject.

Dreamcast games are often downloaded in .CDI format...

Burning a .CDI file.

These would work with Diskjuggler version2 but not with version3 apparently.
Many DREAMCAST games are in this format (ALWAYS BURN IN DISK AT ONCE MODE!).
The best thing to do is convert them to NRG files and then burn them with NERO.
here is a tool to convert them (insert CDI2NRG)

PROIBLEM: When converting a CDI to NRG half way through CDI2NRG says "Error: Unsupported format: could not find the track start mark"

SOLUTION: You could try simulating a burn using Alcohol 120%, but in most likelihood it will fail. This is due to a Corrupt CDI file. Try downloading another version.
You can however use Alcohol 120% to grab the files out of the Cd-Image. You could then possible create a new CDI image and burn that. Be aware that you would need to grab any music files off the cd as well, and if this was a bootable Dreamcast game then you would need to make your new cd selfbooting.

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I have discovered a new method of burning images, especially useful for .CDI images.

the best way to write .CDI files is not to use DISKJUGGLER but to mount the image using DEAMON TOOLS and then use NERO to simply copy CD to CD. This was the only way to write certain dreamcast games. Also I imagine this technique works for most CD Images, and it has the added bonus that you can see what you are about to burn before you burn it.