Clint_Mers

Is it doing anything with the names? Is the option checked to write the track names? Note that you have to let SimplerMD erase the disc to start or it won't try to write names. Also note that tracks are named by the filename, not MP3 tags. If all is working properly, the last step of the process should be to open SimpleBurner and rename all the tracks. This happens after all burning is done.

It can name tracks on the MD from the original source filenames.

All: An updated version of SimplerMD has been posted to http://www.minidisc.org/clint_mers/ It has a fix for the ImageDrive problems. I implemented Omer's suggestion of mounting a dummy image in order to free up the temp image for deletion rather than trying to control ImageDrive. (First I tried using the Windows "Eject" feature, but found that wasn't releasing the image file for deletion.) Please give it a try.

I updated my version of ImageDrive to 2.23 and sure enough, they changed the program a bunch (they made it look more professional) and this is breaking SimplerMD. I was using 2.20 when I wrote SimplerMD. I'll work on an update to work with the newer version of ImageDrive.

I appear to have some mental block that keeps me from writing Pookyhead correctly. Oh well...

Pookiehead34: I don't see a workaround unfortunately. That would have to be a future enhancement of SimplerMD. Maybe if lots of people ask for it? I didn't address it with this version because I rarely listen to music (live albums, for example) where the default gap is really annoying. Sorry. Omer: I thought from your earlier post that ImageDrive was the main problem. Now I can't tell from your more recent post whether you have an ImageDrive problem or not. Please provide more detail and your ImageDrive version. Regarding the dialogs in Simple Burner -- SimplerMD waits a while when you open Simple Burner, then sends ESC to cancel any dialogs. That could be either the "I found a match" or "I didn't find any matches" CDDB dialogs. *How long are you waiting before you're deciding that SimplerMD has failed? *Are you clicking anything during the process? (Important to leave the keyboard and mouse alone so you don't change window focus.) *What exactly is in the dialog that you say SimplerMD is failing to dismiss? Tell me more so I can help fix this. You asked about dismounting images by loading a second image... I agree that may be more reliable, but it seems "cleaner" to me to unmount completely when done. If more folks complain of ImageDrive troubles, maybe I will either implement your suggested approach by including a tiny .NRG file with the setup program and mounting it when I want to unmount the real temp file. OR I could see if it's easy to issue the "Eject" command via Windows and ask the user what drive letter they use for ImageDrive. Either way would avoid having to find and press the button in ImageDrive by name. I'm still surprised, though, if ImageDrive changed enough since I wrote this two months ago to break SimplerMD. Please provide your ImageDrive version so I can see if it is different from mine. Thanks!

Baz: I apologize! I was in error when I said SimplerMD relies on the file association to work properly. Your original file association was fine -- my default open action for a .nrg file is to open it in Nero like yours was before I had you mess it up. Getting too old to trust my memory, I guess... Ok... What SimplerMD is doing is calling ImageDrive with the .nrg file as a parameter. On my version of ImageDrive, that mounts the image. To figure out why this might not be working on your system, please reply with the following: -Contents of all the settings text boxes in SimplerMD -Your version of ImageDrive Thanks!

Omer: What OS and versions of software are you using?

Pookiehead34: How are you setting the gap to 0? If you're just setting disc-at-once, then I think Nero will remember the previous setting and use it when SimplerMD runs. If you're opening each track and manually adjusting the gap, then you're out of luck -- SimplerMD isn't doing that. HTH!

Newbie: Open Nero, create a blank audio project, save it to your hard drive somewhere. See Nero help files for more information.

Hiya, SimplerMD doesn't launch ImageDrive and "control" it like it does Nero and SimpleBurner. The file dialog in ImageDrive is f***ed up and doesn't allow you to enter a complete path (ImageDrive isn't a very polished app -- looks like a quick and dirty utility added as an afterthought -- but handy nevertheless!), so I went a different way. Instead, SimplerMD relies on the file association (not sure of the correct Microsoft-speak) with image files which should get created when you install ImageDrive. SimplerMD just tries to "execute" the image file, and relies on Windows to know what to do with it. Try this: find the image file in Windows Explorer and double-click it. If that action mounts the image file, then SimplerMD should work fine. I'm suspicious that that won't work on your system for some reason. If it doesn't work, fix that problem first, then try running SimplerMD again. You could try uninstalling/reinstalling ImageDrive. Let me know how it goes. HTH!

Thanks for letting me know it works with Win2000! The next time I release an update to the program I'll make a note in the documentation that it has also been tested in Win2000. Thanks.