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[ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ The Recording Website Message Board ] [ FAQ ] Posted by JR#97 on January 29, 2000 at 21:52:37:
In Reply to: Re: Burning CD to Cd posted by Robin on January 29, 2000 at 14:56:39:
lack of knowledge is not ignorance. refusal of knowledge is ignorance....
ISO 9660 is a data CD format. It is an image file is an exact image of what the data will look like when it's burned to CD ROM. File structure, directory structure, everything. ISO 9660 is in reference to the format. Making an image file increases your chances of a succesful burn because your burner and pc don't have to put all of the data in proper order on the fly. For instance, you have 3 or 4 folders and each folder has 10-20 files in it. You only want to burn certain files from those folders. So you choose the files you want in your CD burning program and instead of burning a disk, you create an image file of what the disk will contain. Your CD burner and pc will only have to look at 1 file instead of a bunch of files spread out all over your hard drive.
For audio CD's, image files do the same thing. Instead of having your CD program look to 8 or 9 different wave files plus add track spacing, track id's, pq codes, etc... you have one image file that contains all of those things. It's sort of like one big wave file.