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SS 3.4 and Nero Drive Image -- Unbeatable Combo

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If you guys are using NERO (on Windows) and have SS 3.4 installed you can burn a CD to a "Virtual Drive" using NERO's Drive Image (bundled with NERO software ever since rel 5.0).

You can then transfer to MD etc. using the SS software.

This means you can burn a CD and then rip it without actually having to use "Real CD's).

Lots of possibilities here.

Cheers

-K

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It's also very handy if you master your own CDs with any regularity - a FLAC or WavPack file, or anything for that matter supported by Nero through plugins, with a cuesheet = fast rippable disc image for SS or SB.

I tend to make CDs fairly often, like when I've recorded shows for friends. The process is cumbersome [because of the CD layout software I choose to use, which lack CD-Text support ubt does everything else in a way I like with an interface I am very comfortable with] because it involves burning a CD-RW, ripping it with EAC to a WAV image with cuesheet, editing the cuesheet to read exactly how I want it to, and finally making the image into either a FLAC [which has fairly easy support for embedded cuesheets] or WavPack image ..

I back those up on DVD-R. When I want to make another copy of the disc, I just burn it directly using the cuesheet in Nero. I also, of course, can burn a nero image which I can then mount and rip with SS or SB, as mentioned already. Of course, using foobar2000 as a player, I can also drop the cuesheet into any playlist and play it, with all the track info and such shown properly. Heaven for the anal-retentive armchair archivist.

What I wish I could find is something like Virtual CloneDrive that allows -recording- straight to image files, so I could cut out the CD-RW part entirely. Any suggestions, anyone? Virtual CD-R drive software?

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Getting a bit aside from the original topic, but I use Audition to create wave files with cues at the start of every track, then use CueListTool to create a cue sheet for burning. CueListTool can invoke Nero direct. CueListTool is at http://www.stefanbion.de/cueltool/index_e.htm and is a very hand piece of freeware once you've got the hang of it. Quite unique in fact. Sadly although it supports Wavpack files it's never been updated to handle Wavpack 4.x version.

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