Re: EAC will not read CD file, but playing is okay

"Fred Maxwell [email protected] [EAC]" <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Oct 2020 20:13:06 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.eac.user
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Jerry,

You seem to know quite a bit about this and I really don’t use or create CUE sheets, so perhaps you could explain how a full-CD WAV file differs from a BIN file.  If a BIN/CUE and a WAV/CUE both produce bit-for-bit identical CDs when used to burn a CD, is there some advantage to WAV or BIN relative to the other?

Regards,
  Fred Maxwell
  Moderator, Exact Audio Copy Yahoogroup

> On Oct 1, 2020, at 6:25 PM, Jerry Baker jbaker6953-/[email protected] [EAC] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It won't work with WAV fileS. It has to be a single WAV file with CUE 
> sheet. Then, yes, you can re-create an audio CD bit-for-bit. Including 
> CD-TEXT and ISRC if your burner supports it. The results when scanning 
> the burned CD with something like CUETools will show AccurateRip data 
> identical to the original.
> 
> CD+E and CD+G are not standard audio CDs and so cannot be duplicated 
> this way.
> 
> On 10/1/2020 12:38 PM, Mike Brown [email protected] [EAC] wrote:
> > While you can most certainly take WAV files and build an audio CD, it 
> > will not
> > be a bit-for-bit copy of the original audio CD, even in the same audio 
> > tracks
> > are used in the same order. You are forgetting that there can be CD-TEXT,
> > CD+G and CD+EG data
> 
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