Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 19:31, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> 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.