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Question

Burning CDs from an ISO

Feb 22, 2015 8:03PM PST

Hi there, I'm relatively new to this sort of stuff so forgive me for my ignorance, but I was wondering if you made an ISO with say, all the music files in mp3 or WAV format contained within, then burned it to a CDR, would that work in a CD player after burning it? If not is there a similar way to achieve the same goals? I'm trying to use a hard drive to keep a library of CDs because I burn A LOT in my cd duplicator, but being able to keep a digital library would be better than keeping track of a load of master CDs

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Re: ISO
Feb 22, 2015 8:41PM PST

An ISO is just a copy of a cd, so if the cd it's a copy of plays, a new copy of the ISO to a new cd will play also.
There are exceptions with old players that can't read burned CD's, but that's the only issue you can encounter. Why not try?

Kees

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The way I do it
Feb 22, 2015 8:48PM PST

is, I use EAC http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ and rip to wave format in 1 track with .cue file http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_sheet_%28computing%29 . Next I convert to lossless audio format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_file_format . You can just rip to wave with .cue file and leave it like that. Just burn it using the .cue file and you have a exact copy of your cd. With the size of hard drives now and low prices, I am just saving in wave with .cue file.

Your question;
I was wondering if you made an ISO with say, all the music files in mp3 or WAV format contained within, then burned it to a CDR, would that work in a CD player after burning it? Probably not. In a computer maybe so.

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Oh and if you haven't seen this already
Feb 22, 2015 8:55PM PST