on 1-12-2009 6:02 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following:
Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 19:31, Robert Moskowitz rgm-tZ9RT1K724GHT8/ATrE1yw@public.gmane.org wrote:
So far I have seen how to read the Audio CD and make a directory of WAV files with a control file for later burning to CD, but I want an iso image that I can archive and burn audio CDs to use as they get used up.
No.
The name "iso" comes from ISO-9660, which is the standard that defines how *data* CDs work.
See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660
So, you can only have an "iso" for a data CD, not for an audio CD.
I believe many CD writing programs (especially graphical ones like Nero) can create a "project" to burn an audio CD, and maybe some of them can "export" this project in form of one big file that has all the contents in it, but this file won't be an "iso", it will be an exported project for that specific program. AFAIK there is no standard for this, in fact, I don't even know if any of the CD burning programs actually can do this.
It seems once upon a time I did this. But as I think about it, it was probably a CD of pictures. THat is data...
What is it that you're trying to do? If all you want is to distribute the files as a single big/huge file download, maybe you should create a zipfile with the wav's inside. It would still require the receiving end to manually unzip it and burn it, but it might be closer to what you're trying to accomplish.
I want a single archived file so that as the CD gets used and abused, I can easily burn a new one, just as easy it is to make a CD of a data iso image.
Have a look at FLAC. It is lossless, but will still reduce the size somewhat. It can write a cue file that will make it easy to restore to a CD, and you can zip or tar the resulting flac/cue files to keep them together.