[sclug] CDRWIN .bin/cue format files

[David Given]

Rus Foster wrote:
[...]
> You can just use k3b and "Burn a CD Image" to load it and burn it out if 
> that helps

cdrdao, too, if you want a command-line tool.

You *can't* mount the .bin as if it were a .iso --- bins are straight, 
sector by sector copies of the disk *including* the various wacky CD 
sector metadata. .isos represent the user-visible contents of one of the 
tracks; the .bin represents the entire disk. They're typically used for 
distributing an entire multitrack disk image, containing 
non-traditionally-computer-readable data such as CDDA tracks or 
VideoCD/SVCD/KVCD/uDVD tracks.

The cue file is, by the way, a text file --- have a look at it in a text 
editor. From what I can see from your cue file, it looks like you've got 
audio; Mode 2 sectors allow some of the more exotic error correction 
system to be turned off, which means you get more payload per 2352 byte 
sector. (Normally it's 2048, but this can push it up to 2342 bytes.) 
This is normally only used for audio or video where you don't really 
care. The reason why I think it's audio rather than video is that people 
don't really use more than one track on a VideoCD --- there's a nasty 
glitch between tracks.

Lots of information here:

http://www.disctronics.co.uk/technology/cd-rom/cdrom_spec.htm

Be careful; I can bore you for hours on this...

-- 
David Given
dg at cowlark.com