Burn to a Emulated CD Drive

[DBoy1612]

After reading Tenacity thread on his iTunes problem, being forced to burn his music to a CD and then rip it again to his computer, a funny idea came to mind. You know with Emulated CD drives, you can use ISO images (and various others) and mount them to the drive and your computer runs them as if there was an actual CD, right? Well, what about instead of reading from the ISO, you're using a program such as iTunes and are burning to the Emulated drive, and it saves the data as an ISO or any other form of an CD image.

Googled around a bit, didn't find much, thought I'd ask here instead. Anyone ever hear of this being possible?

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[Qunitinius~Verginix]

Hmmmmm. This sounds quite interesting. I think I might try this tomorrow after school. With a little fiddling it might work, and I believe I have a program that can, but don't count on it. I'll post with my findings later.

Verg

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[JohnLenin]

#1

you can use ISO images (and various others) and mount them to the drive and your computer runs them as if there was an actual CD, right?

sure

#2

Well, what about instead of reading from the ISO, you're using a program such as iTunes and are burning to the Emulated drive, and it saves the data as an ISO or any other form of an CD image.

I don't see your point.
Every CD/DVD burner (best example Nero) can "burn" only an image what you can later back up to a real CD/DVD - or you can mount the newly created image and GO TO #1.
Of course for that you don't mount an image where you burn into, you create a new one. Burning into an existing image would be something like rewrite or multisession write - not sure it makes too much sense.

Or do you need something else?

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[13CentKiller]

It sounds possable....

But it probably isn't

Did you try Alcohol 120% (The new version?):)

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[Dopamino]

You would need to have iTunes be the actual program that burns it, so I don't think it's possible.

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I mostly lurk around Media Center these days.

[Boss]

I don't think so, at least with the programs I have. Reason being, you'd have to mount an empty ISO first.

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.

[JohnLenin]

I don't think so, at least with the programs I have. Reason being, you'd have to mount an empty ISO first.

Hi,

maybe it is due to the heat Today, but I still don't see why would anybody want to burn into an >existing< empty image. Why not simply burn a new image?
The 2nd option works fine and requires no CDs either...

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[Boss]

Considering that the computer thinks that it is, in fact, a real drive, one would need blank media to write to.

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.

[DBoy1612]

Hi,

maybe it is due to the heat Today, but I still don't see why would anybody want to burn into an >existing< empty image. Why not simply burn a new image?
The 2nd option works fine and requires no CDs either...

The point is to some way help Tenacity problem (and I have a few ideas of my own). Think about it this way.

You have iTunes, have no way to exact your music, and the only way to have them converted to MP3s would be to burn them to an actual CD and then rip them again in a different program. What I want to do is, instead of burning to a CD, iTunes is sending the data to a blank ISO because it -thinks- it's burning to a real CD. That's what I wanted to do, it makes sense if you think about it.

And thanks 13, I'll check Alcohol 120%, mines pretty out of date here.

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[Svartalfheim]

http://askbobrankin.com/convert_itunes_t...ormat.html

Webpage about how to do what i think you want to do.

http://www.hymn-project.org/

Link to software to er 'circumvent' the inability to copy itunes AAC format files.

Don't worry... legal jargon ahead...

"The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but [t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." "To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work. This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright advances the progress of science and art."
-- US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

And the website says

Despite what Justice O'Connor of the United States Supreme Court has said, DRM exists. The purpose of DRM is to bypass traditional copyright law. The result of DRM combined with laws that outlaw circumvention of DRM (such as the DMCA) is that there is no longer clear protection for fair use in some countries.

Before using any of the software on this web site, you should be aware of the legal standing of DRM circumvention technology in your own country and make your own decision whether using Hymn Project software is right for you.

Make up you own mind basically...

Have fun :D

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