Burning iso

[paul26982]

Hi there I have a bin, cue and MP3 files, I'm using a Mac too, I understand you convert and replace the mp3's to WAV, but where do you go from there, how do I create the rest of it, obviously mount the ISO image, do you just copy the WAV's over and burn, what about the cue file

[blackfrancolin]

Have always found writing anything on any optical media a bit hit and miss on the mac. If you can get Imgburn working on it, with some sort of Windows environment, it will automatically convert the MP3 to WAV as it copies, as long as the MP3 links are unchanged.

[paul26982]

I've got a program to convert mp3's to WAV it's the rest after I'm stuck with. Wouldn't care many moons I used to do dc and so on games for fun

[blackfrancolin]

Should have made myself clearer, sorry. What I was trying to say, was that if you used the Imgburn method, you wouldn't have to mess around manually converting MP3 to WAV, and then rebuilding everything. Once you have converted the MP3 to WAV, you've upset the file structure so your cue file no longer works. If you're going to do this manually, you need to rebuild the cue file after you have converted the MP3 to WAV. I have only done this manually once and what I did was slightly different and more convoluted. I burned the bin, without a cue to a CD-RW using Alcohol, then re-ripped the CD-RW with Imgburn to have a new bin/cue. But I came across a guide that may help:


forums.emulator-zone.com/showthread.php?t=6970

use ctrl+f WAV to see the relevant informtion. It requires you to use a program called sega cue file maker. Unfortunately, all the programs here are probably Windows based.

But seriously, you could well avoid all of this, by just using Imgburn in the first place.

[zyrobs]

Feb 21, 2016 18:39:49 GMT blackfrancolin said:

Should have made myself clearer, sorry. What I was trying to say, was that if you used the Imgburn method, you wouldn't have to mess around manually converting MP3 to WAV, and then rebuilding everything. Once you have converted the MP3 to WAV, you've upset the file structure so your cue file no longer works. If you're going to do this manually, you need to rebuild the cue file after you have converted the MP3 to WAV. I have only done this manually once and what I did was slightly different and more convoluted. I burned the bin, without a cue to a CD-RW using Alcohol, then re-ripped the CD-RW with Imgburn to have a new bin/cue. But I came across a guide that may help:


forums.emulator-zone.com/showthread.php?t=6970

use ctrl+f WAV to see the relevant informtion. It requires you to use a program called sega cue file maker. Unfortunately, all the programs here are probably Windows based.

But seriously, you could well avoid all of this, by just using Imgburn in the first place.

This is all wrong. The cue sheet is just a text file description of the discs table of contents. You can open it in a text editor and just use ctrl+h to change all instances of .mp3 to .wav, and that's that. If you see the mp3 tracks referenced to as MPEG in each line, then you also need to change that to WAVE. There is no rebuilding involved, you just have to change every occurance of those 2 strings.

Furthermore putting mp3 tracks in a cuesheet is nonstandard so some of the cue sheets might already have .wav files listed in them.

Then again you shouldn't even bother with iso+mp3+cue rips to begin with.

[blackfrancolin]

I appreciate that a cue is just a text file. But what I was getting at was more a matter of convenience and thoroughness. Some images have dozens of tracks. But since you've pointed out that a cue probably already has the relevant extensions you don't really need to do any of this. Maybe the term rebuild was incorrect in this instance. But I would consider rewriting something as rebuilding (the text file in this case). I've only ever used one image where I had to convert the mp3 to wav. Manually rewriting the text file didn't work for me. Possibly I was doing something wrong. Using Alcohol worked. Using a cue maker would also work.  Whether that's the correct way of doing it I don't know. But it worked.

[zyrobs]

The cue only points to a few file names. As long as you set the file names correctly, you won't need a rebuilder, unless the cue was already wrong or not meant for that particular cd image.

Having dozens of tracks makes no difference, since in any text editor you can press ctrl+h to replace a given string. Changing the extension for 98 tracks takes the same amount of time as changing 1 track.