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xiando, V.1.0.0 — 2004-03-30 v1.1.3 (en), xiando — 2004.08.18

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Hints on ripping and burning data, audio and special (like PSX) CDs

General information / required configuration
Ripping, copying and burning normals CDs or ISOs
- 2.1. Data CDs / working with iso images o 2.1.1. Rip data-cds o 2.1.2. Burn data-cds o 2.1.3. Mouting ISO Images o 2.1.4. Mounting / converting cue/bin images o 2.1.5. Windows users should use DAEMON Tools to mount .iso and .bin o 2.1.6. Nero .nrg archives
- 2.2. Audio CDs
Rip / Copy Multitrack Cd's (cue/bin, Playstation)
Smoother CD burning using ccache
CD Image Format Guide
- 5.1. iso images
- 5.2. .cue/.bin pairs
- 5.3. CloneCD .ccd/.img/.sub
- 5.4. .nrg

CD Image Format Guide

The standard for CD images is called .iso.

iso images

iso is a very common standard. If you download a file called .iso then you will be able to burn it with any standard cdrecording tool like k3b.

.cue/.bin pairs

These files come in pair. .bin is the large actual cd image and the .cue is a small description on how to burn it.

cdrdao write --eject --speed 16 --device 0,3,0 --driver generic-mmc filename.cue

Common tools like k3b supports .cue/.bin pairs.

Capital letter warning

When asking programs to burn a .cue file they will look for a matching .bin file. If the filename uses capital letters (image pair FILEONE.BIN & FILEONE.CUE) this may fail because the program will look for FILENAME.bin instead of FILENAME.BIN. Rename the file if you run into this problem.

CloneCD .ccd/.img/.sub

A Windows tool called CloneCD is commonly used to burn backups of Playstaion and other copyprotected CDs.

CloneCD rips an image consisting of three files .ccd/.img/.sub, usually distributed archived as zip or rar. The .img is the CD data, the .cdd looks like a .cue and the .sub may contain extra information on specially marked sectors.

Sad to say these files can not be burned perfectly under Linux. You have to alternatives:

Download the Clone-CD to ISO converter ccd2iso
- Download now: ccd2iso-0.1.tar.gz (200 kb)
Burn with cdrdao and use the .img as .bin, .cdd as .cue and ignore the .sub. This may work correct.

.nrg

Nero image files, made with and for the Windows program called Nero.

nrg is a non-standard variant of the common .iso format. Images with only. one track can be burned as usual (like .img).

When trying to burn multitrack .nrg images like .isos you will only get the first track recorded!