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Create mountable CDDA image from audio files
Hi everybody,
I actually have only one question: How can I (if possible) make an Windows-readable image file from my audio files?
Everything I tried doesn't work and for the files (BIN/CUE) I have created I get an error "Windows can't access the disk. The disk may be corrupt..." and I can't figure out any way to make a simple audio image
Here's a brief summary of what I'm doing:
Many thanks in advance
- Rip my Audio CD's to a lossless format and store them on independent drives, then deposit the physical discs in a storage to save space.
- In addition to the lossless audio files I create a lossy duplicate to put on my Walkman (Sony NW-A25 digital media player)
- ... and here comes the part I am having troubles with:
With "normal" audio tracks everything's fine, but the troublesome files are "mixed" disks (I mean like live sets or recordings without a gap - gapless - tracks).
When being converted to lossless files there's no problem at all, but the microSD card on my Walkman is limited to 128 GB (which most of you will find more then enough), but I'm a bit of an audiophile and absolute music addict, so I separate my music library into categories.
That means, music where there's no significant decrease in "audible" quality (like with electronic or synthetic instruments) may be lossy and where there's a wide or dynamic range of instruments or voices should be lossless.
The problem is with the lossy copies of so called gapless tracks (like mentioned before). The mp3 file standard does not support gapless playback, since every wave of music is converted into small blocks of digital data which is filled with "silence" if the audio is less then the block size.
Until now only the Sony Music Center for PC is capable of creating gapless mp3 files.
Here is the part where I need an audio image file. The software can "import" an Audio CD and save it as gapless mp3.
Sure, I could go with lossless, but there's not enough space on my memory card to store everything lossless, hence the division.
The problem is that I am about 1000 miles away from my physical disks and can't access them now.
Now many may criticize me, but still I hope to get some answers here.