imgmount doesn't really care that you are on windows 7

OK so.... what else can I check? Playing a physical music CD in my DVD-RW drive works fine too. Could it be a 64-bit issue? Or is it more likely I have borked codec/driver/os install (willing to admit that). Just thought there might be something i've missed or can check out.

Check that:
- the CUE file mentions the audio tracks
- the BIN file actually contains the audio track data
- you are mounting the CUE file and not the BIN file
- the image is mounting correctly in DOSBox
- you have configured the game's audio and DOSBox's audio settings properly on the Win7 machine

I've checked everything you mentioned and every random thing I can think of (disabling CD drives, running under administrator, etcetera). I'm 99.9% sure there's nothing simple I've missed - mounting the original CD with MOUNT -ioctl_dx works fine - as does mounting this same BIN/CUE with D-Tools Lite. Here's a copy of the Cue Sheet for Disc1 of Redneck Rampage Family Reunion:

1FILE "RR_1.bin" BINARY
2  TRACK 01 MODE2/2352
3    INDEX 01 00:00:00
4  TRACK 02 AUDIO
5    INDEX 01 27:36:34
6  TRACK 03 AUDIO
7    INDEX 01 31:19:57
8  TRACK 04 AUDIO
9    INDEX 01 31:29:70
10  TRACK 05 AUDIO
11    INDEX 01 35:30:12
12  TRACK 06 AUDIO
13    INDEX 01 39:52:08
14  TRACK 07 AUDIO
15    INDEX 01 40:02:21
16  TRACK 08 AUDIO
17    INDEX 01 42:59:60
18  TRACK 09 AUDIO
19    INDEX 01 46:13:47
20  TRACK 10 AUDIO
21    INDEX 01 52:39:28

I'm going to go ahead and make a new MODE1/2048 cuesheet copy with a bare ISO and MP3-compressed track numbers, as per the example on the Wiki entry. If it doesn't work, then I suppose i'll have to make do with mounting in Daemon Tools Lite every launch and accept that my PC is fruited somewhere 😅

I'll post back how it goes, if anyone has any more ideas please do share. Thanks!

danielc wrote:

Is there a way I can turn on "verbose logging" or something for DOSBox 0.73?

There's always Process Monitor from http://www.sysinternals.com , though that would only be useful if you're using an ISO and separate MP3 tracks.

Thanks for that tip Jorpho, I assume you can use that to check if dosbox.exe is actually opening handles to the MP3 file to verify that cd audio is at least being loaded.

As soon as I figure out how to make a MODE1/2048 Bin/Cue with MP3-compressed tracks i'll give that a go to make sure. Cheers.

It's working now. It would appear my ghost in the machine doesn't like Mode2/XA images and prefers Ogg tracks. Here's the working cuesheet:

1FILE "RR1_T01.ISO" BINARY
2  TRACK 01 MODE1/2048
3    INDEX 01 00:00:00
4FILE "RR1_T02.OGG" MP3
5  TRACK 02 AUDIO
6    PREGAP 00:02:00
7    INDEX 01 00:00:00
8FILE "RR1_T03.OGG" MP3
9  TRACK 03 AUDIO
10    INDEX 01 00:00:00
11FILE "RR1_T04.OGG" MP3
12  TRACK 04 AUDIO
13    INDEX 01 00:00:00
14FILE "RR1_T05.OGG" MP3
15  TRACK 05 AUDIO
16    INDEX 01 00:00:00
17FILE "RR1_T06.OGG" MP3
18  TRACK 06 AUDIO
19    INDEX 01 00:00:00
20FILE "RR1_T07.OGG" MP3
21 TRACK 07 AUDIO
22    INDEX 01 00:00:00
23FILE "RR1_T08.OGG" MP3
24  TRACK 08 AUDIO
25    INDEX 01 00:00:00
26FILE "RR1_T09.OGG" MP3
27  TRACK 09 AUDIO
28    INDEX 01 00:00:00
29FILE "RR1_T10.OGG" MP3
30  TRACK 10 AUDIO
31    INDEX 01 00:00:00

If anyone comes across this, make sure the filenames are all caps and 8.3 if mounting in the guest path - and keep Track1 as an ISO, don't rename it to BIN.

Thanks for all the help! 😁