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Mounting a virtual CD-ROM drive and playing virtual CD

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First post, by lucky7456969

Posted on 2010-12-02, 13:21

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Hello,
Are there any software available that rips a CD and produces
a music cd file that dosbox can accept on mounted cd-rom drive?

Is it possible to create an audio ISO and plays under windows 3.1?
What I am doing right now is to mount my physical cdrom drive to dosbox, then play a physical disc from there. Sorry, this may sound stupid but I am doing it for fun.
Thanks
Jack

Reply 1 of 3, by Dominus

Posted on 2010-12-02, 15:20

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yes, there are a couple of programs that do that. But for Audio CDs you don't rip to iso but to bin/cue (bin is the image and cue is a text file that lists the tracks).

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Reply 2 of 3, by HunterZ

Posted on 2010-12-02, 16:04

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As Dominus says, ISO images cannot hold audio tracks. You need to rip as BIN/CUE and then tell DOSBox to mount the CUE file. Make sure that you keep both the BIN and CUE file in the same folder with the same names (other than the BIN and CUE parts of course) because they go together: the BIN file is the actual data and audio tracks from the disc, and the CUE file is a table of contents that gives info about each track.

I use ImgBurn because it's a really good, free, lightweight CD/DVD ripping/burning program for Windows. I believe it can rip BIN/CUE in addition to many other formats.

Reply 3 of 3, by SKARDAVNELNATE

Posted on 2010-12-02, 16:12

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HunterZ wrote:
Make sure that you keep both the BIN and CUE file in the same folder with the same names (other than the BIN and CUE parts of course)

The cue file points to the bin file by name. So if you do change their names after imaging you have to edit the cue with the new name. Because of this the name of the cue file doesn't matter, it's just more confusing if named different.

MagicISO should work.

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