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[pbar]

Can anyone tell me, how to burn an audio CD in Disc-At-Once mode in Easy Media Creator 10. Can't find the option anywhere. I've used Easy CD Creator for years, from version 3.0 and the feature has always been there as it is with every other burning software I've used. Can't believe they've taken it out, it's by far the best option to use (for many reasons) when buring audio CD's, but all I can do it seems, is burn in track-at-once mode with the option to either close the disc (now known as Read Only) or leave it open. DAO must be there somewhere!
Thanx!

[Brendon]

pbar,

The simple answer to your question is that the audio disc will be burned in DAO mode automatically. You have no other option, and no control now.

Here is the whole story:
There are two options for burning audio discs in EMC 10.0. One is the brainless Easy Audio CD program which is not from Roxio, the other is Music Disc Creator which is a version of Creator Classic from Roxio, Genetically Engineered to burn only audio, MP3/WMA, or DVD music discs.

In both of these programs the default for an audio CD is DAO. In Music Disc Creator you may choose to burn with/without CD-Text, else both programs will burn DAO with CD-Text by default if your burner supports CD-Text.


There are likewise two main ways of writing a simple data disc. The emasculated Creator Classic with its audio bits removed, or the not-from-Roxio 'Data Disc' option which is Easy Audio Creator with different menus.

The Project Settings and Burn Options for Creator Classic 10 don't have any option for TAO or DAO when making a data disc, only whether or not to close the disc. DAO is the mode and the TAO option seems to have been removed.

The Easy Audio CD/Data Disc program has an options button with 4 tabs. The Data and Backup tab has options for TAO open or closed, and DAO closed. These settings affect only the data burning by this program, not the audio. They don't affect the Roxio programs [Music Disc Creator or Creator Classic] at all.


I think this was meant to simplify the burning process, but I don't know if it does.

Brendon

[pbar]

Thanks for your reply, appreciate it.
So audio CD's are created automatically in DAO mode?
Ok, although the one I made (which prompted my question) was in Track-At-Once mode for sure, although my scenario is as follows -
I already had a CD image made with Easy CD Creator 6. I have created audio CD's in ECDC6 using this image and always chosen DAO mode in the burning options, and had no issues.
I opened this image in EMC10 (in the 'classic' program as I couldn't seem to bring it into either of the audio programs) and in the burn options chose the only thing I thought might relate to DAO - the read only option. But this created the audio CD as a Track-At-Once CD and finalised it. Unchecking this option creates an open Track-At-Once CD.
So that's why I asked how to choose DAO.
As the audio CD was written in Track-At-Once mode, the buffers were flushed after every track instead of the whole CD being written in one smooth constant and gaps were inserted between each track. DAO mode does not have these issues.

If you have any suggestions on how I can burn an audio CD image created by ECDC6 in EMC10 in DAO mode, please let me know.

Thanks!

[Brendon]

Hi pbar,

Well, I did it.  What a kerfuffle to do it though!

Version 6 won't write an audio ISO of course, since there's no such thing. However I created an audio CD with only three tracks and wrote it to image, making a nice .CIF image.

I ran Music Disc Creator 10, asking for an Audio CD. Clicked on File > Import from CD/DVD [Ctrl+Shift+T] and navigated to the drive I had my CIF on, selecting the .CIF .

The Media Selector then showed me there were three audio tracks, although the name of each track looked identical and contained only odd symbols. Trying to import any of them brought up an error message telling me I didn't have enough room on my destination drive [I only had 37 GB free, so that message was b.s.]

Thinking that poor coding might display the same error text for any errors of any sort at that point, I went back and used the Tag Editor to rename each of the three tracks, then highlighted them all and hit 'Add' once more. Sho' 'nuff, all three were imported, as WAV files.   Voila! (see picture).



So I then closed the Media Selector and clicked Burn, and it did - DAO. [Must be DAO, because the CD had CD-Text burned on it.]

Was that what you wanted?  It would probably be easier to just import the tracks off the disc you made with Creator Classic into Music Disc Creator, and then burn a new image with MDC to a C2D or Bin/Cue that you can use on subsequent occasions.

Regards,
Brendon

[pbar]

Hi again.
Thank for your reply and efforts. Wow, it's really something that you managed to achieve it going through all that!
Yes, that is what I wanted to achieve, to simply write the CD using the image I created. However, it is amazingly complex when compared to ECDC6, which basically just involved opening the program, choosing to import the saved image, choosing DAO in the burn option and that's it.
The classic program option that EMC10 has was able to import the project and burn it, straightforward enough, very similar to ECDC6, the only issue being no DAO option, the CD having been burned in Track-At-Once mode, with no other option.
I have more previously saved CD images to burn, so all things considered I think I have 2 or 3 realistic options. Drop back to ECDC6 (although an unrelated problem led me to upgrading to EMC10) and use that, or at least use ECDC6 to burn one CD and create a new more universal image using that or another program. So far, I have used this last option, creating an image in CloneCD. Can't believe how straightforward it is to burn that image using CloneCD.
Thanks for your efforts and info, I do appreciate it.

[Brendon]

Can't believe how straightforward it is to burn that image using CloneCD.
Thanks for your efforts and info, I do appreciate it.

You're more than welcome.

Regards,
Brendon