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There's plenty of software to mount an .iso
image for reading, but is there anything (for Windows XP) that would do the reverse, i.e. act as an "virtual CD-R drive" so that burning onto it would result in an .iso
image to be created? Like PDF printer drivers, but for CD-R.
I have a legacy application that can only burn onto CD, but I would like it to create .iso
s instead.
It's an interesting idea you have. I don't think its been done, but it should be trivial for a driver writer. Do you have a need for this other than academic curiosity? – Justin Dearing – 2009-10-04T17:07:02.510
What is the legacy application? It may have command line switches available as well which you could utilize to pipe the data to another application and create an ISO. – John T – 2009-10-04T17:07:55.050
interesting problem. what's the application? where is its data coming from? – quack quixote – 2009-10-04T17:09:16.733
The app is Steinberg Wavelab Essential. It's an old audio editor, but it does all I need (except the .iso:s). – Joonas Pulakka – 2009-10-04T17:13:05.430
what will these ISOs contain? if it's just data files you've worked on, can't you find those in the filesystem, and use a standard tool like ImgBurn? or is it more than that? i guess i'm trying to figure out if another burning tool can help recreate what you get from this legacy app. or what this does that another app can't. ...if the app is just creating backup CDs of data you've edited, that's no problem with ImgBurn; if it's just creating audio CDs from your wavs, EAC can do that. – quack quixote – 2009-10-04T17:35:55.477
ah. found a product description; "redbook compatible w/ cd-text". it does cd mastering, so EAC's not an equivalent. is that what you're getting at? audio cd masters? – quack quixote – 2009-10-04T17:46:32.820
Yes, audio cd masters. There are lots of apps that produce them, but I happen to like Wavelab :-) – Joonas Pulakka – 2009-10-04T18:31:58.250
does this software give any option to export to a .bin/.cue format? (this is more for my own curiosity than anything else.) – quack quixote – 2009-10-04T21:45:17.440
At least the old version that I have has no export functions. I guess the newer ones might have something. – Joonas Pulakka – 2009-10-05T18:30:28.407