Comments on: Bin, Cue, Img and Iso files explained

By: Fat Jay

Fat Jay — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:00:06 +0000

Um, the unsupported window program (ironically) doesn’t support cue or bin. It supports iso, and a .rock or something but not the ones you said it did.

By: Jerusalem Joe

Jerusalem Joe — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:44:04 +0000

I agree with the second commenter – an explanation would be welcome.
Come on Martin – educate the unwashed masses!

By: Benóný (Iceland)

Benóný (Iceland) — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:38:12 +0000

Streaker I disagree with what your saying about Daemon, I’ve been using it for a very long time and have never noticed any Adware or anything unusual. I tried Magicdisk and can’t say that it beats Daemon Tools.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:16:33 +0000

duryodhan, you are right of course. Let me give a basic explanation..

Bin and Cue: Bin holds the raw data of the disk including metadata while the Cue file describes that data. It contains track information for instance.

Iso: Iso is probably the most used format these days. They hold all data of a disk plus metadata including boot code and structure.

Img; Img files are raw dumps of disks.

I think all formats can also be unpacked using archivers like IZArc.

By: duryodhan

duryodhan — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:51:43 +0000

Also, ISO Images are more friendly in linux… they are as easy to mount as a simple :
mount .iso -o loop

and creating ISO images in linux is :
dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.iso

So I recommend people to stick to ISO, you never know you might work on linux some day.

Also, where in this article are you EXPLAINING ISO CUE BIN ? The whole article just manages to say that all these formats are cd images and that to mount them you need some software! I was really excited when I saw the heading but this was a letdown.

By: Streaker

Streaker — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:40:43 +0000

Daemon Tools comes bundled with Adware. You should use MagicDisc instead-
http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm

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