QUERY: editing CloneCD images & best for game data & music CDs

[andwan0]

Yes, Total Annihilation is a mix-moded CD (track 1 is data, other tracks for analogue audio). I just realised that Total Annihilation doesn't even have copy protection (from GCW)... so I didn't really need to use copy-protection profiles from CloneCD at all. I think the last time I made CloneCD images was in 2003 on a crappy CD-ROM drive.

TIP4SELF: use a good clean CD/DVD drive when making images.. & use a normal or playstation CD profile (as long as it extracts sub-channel and doesn't ignore bad sectors or errors).

Well, my old game CDs were probably naff... so I bought another new pair off eBay and they look virtually clean and new. Now am experiementaly with different CD imaging programs to see which one is best... I'll probably write up a comparison or report my findings onto their respective wikipedia pages...

1. Alcohol 120% has "Data Position Measurement"... is this good or bad? What is it really?
2. Luckily Daemon Tools Adv. has a Mixed Mode Profile. Though am confused by the subchannel options (96bytes of raw PW? or 16 bytes of PQ?). It can compress MDS/MDF format which is also good.
3. Going to try CloneCD, GameJackel, PowerISO, BlindWrite, CDRWIN, MagicISO, UltraISO, Nero, etc...

TIP4SELF: How to make flawless mix-mode images? Am not too worried about the DATA section since I can use RapidCRC and verify checksums. The hard bits are the analogue audio tracks. I did a bit of reading about Exact Audio Copy or 1-to-1 copy of analogue audio tracks. There's a program called paranoia(?). So I can do the Exact-Audio-Copy off the CD first... then do the EAC off the images and compare the 2 copies to see if they match.