A musician friend of mine has decided that the best way to send me some
files to work on is by making an audio CD from his hard-disk recorder,
packing it up into a BIN+CUE package with IMGBurn, and sending it to me
via Dropbox. Now I have these two files, I can unpack them and burn them
to a real compact disc, then use a program like Exact Audio Copy to
extract the audio into the WAV files which he should have sent me in the
first place so I can work with them. The problem is, he's done this so
many times before, and frankly, my media supply is gettin' low! So I
thought maybe I could use one of these free CD clone drivers like
Elaborate Bytes' Virtual Clone Drive
<https://www.elby.ch/en/products/vcd.html> to unpack the BIN+CUE package
with IMGBurn, then use EAC to extract the WAV audio. My questions are:


1. Is this scenario even possible? Is that what VCD is supposed to
do--be a virtual CD drive where the user can mount a virtual disc and
treat it as if it were a real one?


2. I tried mounting the .BIN of the BIN+CUE pair, and VCD didn't do it.
Is this format different from the kind of BIN VCD is looking for?


3. Is there a program that can take my BIN+CUE pair made with IMGBurn
and turn it into something VCD *CAN* mount?


Thanks in advance for any help on this one.

This is so complicated. Just ask him to upload the .wav file to a
third party file transfer service. I am a field recordist and do this
for producers all the time. Keeps things simple and the producer can
start editing the .wav file immediately without messing with
unnecessary technology.

Kelly




On 9/7/21, Steve Matzura <number6@...> wrote:

A musician friend of mine has decided that the best way to send me some
files to work on is by making an audio CD from his hard-disk recorder,
packing it up into a BIN+CUE package with IMGBurn, and sending it to me
via Dropbox. Now I have these two files, I can unpack them and burn them
to a real compact disc, then use a program like Exact Audio Copy to
extract the audio into the WAV files which he should have sent me in the
first place so I can work with them. The problem is, he's done this so
many times before, and frankly, my media supply is gettin' low! So I
thought maybe I could use one of these free CD clone drivers like
Elaborate Bytes' Virtual Clone Drive
<https://www.elby.ch/en/products/vcd.html> to unpack the BIN+CUE package
with IMGBurn, then use EAC to extract the WAV audio. My questions are:


1. Is this scenario even possible? Is that what VCD is supposed to
do--be a virtual CD drive where the user can mount a virtual disc and
treat it as if it were a real one?


2. I tried mounting the .BIN of the BIN+CUE pair, and VCD didn't do it.
Is this format different from the kind of BIN VCD is looking for?


3. Is there a program that can take my BIN+CUE pair made with IMGBurn
and turn it into something VCD *CAN* mount?


Thanks in advance for any help on this one.