Create audio CD image (.iso?) from mp3s...

[Cmdr.Keen]

I apologize in advance if this is the incorrect forum. I tried a general search and couldn't find any relevant threads...

I'm looking for a quick-n-dirty way to create an audio CD image from a bunch of mp3s on my T43. I'm actually not sure if the resulting file would be an .iso or not. I've tried using Nero, but the resulting file (.nrg, I believe) was consistently corrupt, even after converting the .nrg file to an .iso file.

To clarify, I'm not looking to create a data disc of mp3s, but an audio CD image that would be X times larger in filesize than a standard audio CD (which I will then mount on a virtual drive).

I'd prefer not to download a pay-for or adware/spyware-riddled program...I've already found those.

Ideas?

TIA,
Andrew

[christopher_wolf]

Hmmm, so you are looking to take those MP3s and turn them into consecutive CDA conformant audio tracks...Well, that is using up quite a bit of space for nothing much. What do you want to do that for, including mounting it as a virtual image?

[Cmdr.Keen]

...that is using up quite a bit of space for nothing much. What do you want to do that for, including mounting it as a virtual image?

Yeah, I realize how much hd space they'll take up, but it would only be a temporary thing. I recently dug up my old $ony Minidisc player and wanted to used the included "Simple Burner" software instead of "OpenMG" (which has an annoying check-in/check-out feature). Mounting CDAs to a virtual drive would allow me to trick "Simple Burner" into allowing me a one-time dump of a bunch of mp3s onto my Minidisc.

I know it's not necessarily an elegant solution, but I want to try it nonetheless.

[tfflivemb2]

I know that it would waste disks, but what about creating a CD with the songs, then using that disk to create an image?

Not sure if that would work....I am just guessing here, because I am not quite sure what you are trying to do.

[Cmdr.Keen]

I know that it would waste disks, but what about creating a CD with the songs, then using that disk to create an image?...

Yeah, I could do that, but it would negate the "ease" factor I'm trying for.

This is what I'm attempting:

1. Use a software burner to make an audio CD, but instead of writing it to a blank CD-R, write it to that hard drive by saving the "image" that the software burner creates. Since the hd would have a larger capacity than a CD-R, I could create a larger "image" than I would when normally writing a CD.

2. Mount the "image" to a virtual drive.

3. Using Simple Burner (Sony Minidisc software), I'd trick the program into thinking it was reading a CD from my CD drive, but it's actually reading the larger "image" I mounted to the virtual drive. More mp3s transferred to the Minidisc with less time and effort.

Hope that makes sense. To give you an idea, Nero is *supposed* to be able to do this...instead of an .iso it creates a .nrg file (Ahead Nero proprietary, I believe) and then I can convert the .nrg to .iso pretty quick. The problem I'm having is that every attempt with Nero results in a corrupt file.

Ideas? Advice?