CDRWin now there is a name I have not come across for a while :-)
Yeah, heh. I wonder if they're out of business now, though. Golden Hawk's general website doesn't load and it's been 2 years since the last update... Kind of a shame, CDRWIN still has the best editor for CD-TEXT creation I found and their command line stuff was pretty cool. I actually created a testing disc using it for TurboRip so that I could support the feature competently. I titled every track, added songwriter, album title, used every known CD-TEXT feature, etc. and got it all working and properly processed. It's rare to find audio discs supporting it though because the idea came towards the end of the CD format's life, but some are out there. Better to support the CDDB online database when it comes to naming tracks by looking up the disc's TOC, but that's a tougher task for down the road if I feel like it.
Great work with TurboRip by the way: I have just tried this out and it works fine for me under Windows 8 64Bit. I love the TOC database integration and the automatic generation of missing application files.
Good, that means the 32-bit emulation layer is working with it. I did some work on the next update not too long ago, but then I stopped and lost interest again, though I fully intend to eventually give it the update it deserves! What I accomplished so far was to make it work directly with NT SPTI so I won't need some stupid ASPI DLL anymore (
so for NT4/2K/XP/Vista/7/8, direct SCSI commands via Windows API). What I didn't get going on though is reading the Q subcode data to truly detect track sub indexing (
pregap 'index 00' or further indexing, 'index 02' or more for rare audio discs and one PC-FX disc that I know about thanks to David Shadoff which has a data track with 5 indexes, etc.). Once that's done, TurboRip will be reliable for use on PC-FX discs and others, etc. I think adding OGG encoding to compliment the MP3 support is also in order. So basically, once the core source code is pretty finalized, with an understanding of the CD format being almost mastered and a solid version is compiled and released for command-line, the next step would be to work on a GUI version. That'd be a nice challenge down the road.
Also it was very interesting reading the background to this project.
Cool, glad you read the ReadMe. Few people ever bother to show interest on such details. Yeah, basically, I needed it for the Ys IV dubbing idea (
and potentially for it to be helpful for projects by others) because nothing would properly rip a mixed mode NEC disc. There is actually nothing wrong with them or "nonstandard;" they're following Yellow Book specifications/guidelines as far as I understand it of adding a 3 second pregap when transitioning from an audio track to a data track and a 2 second postgap for the opposite, when going from data to audio.
When you'd try to use CDRWIN to rip a mixed-mode NEC disc on a track-per-file basis though, it'd fail on track 2 (
and track 1 as a wave file would include the 3 seconds of pregap at the end of it which technically belongs to track 2). You'd have to specify the start and end sectors and subtract off the 2 second postgap to get the damn thing to rip it for you... I manually used to do that shit all the time before I developed TurboRip... It's fine if you ask the program to rip a whole BIN/CUE for you or whatever else (MDF, IMG, etc), but trying to rip all tracks to separate files (ISO/WAV/CUE format), that never worked right, at least with CDRWIN (
I think ISO Buster was another one, looked like it would work, but didn't)...
NightWolve - I was able to get up and running by using Alcohol 52% and following the steps that you mentioned.
Congrats! I was losing hope that you'd figure it out and I was just about tired of offering more ideas.
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