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Originally Posted by Vendetta V
And is it still 'that' better for just small quantity (I'm talking less than 50) from Cue/Bin?
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You want to make 50 CDs? Well, as far as I know, pressing Red Book discs is way too expensive in this case, because glass mastering (i.e. making a stamper) is not cheap. Fewer than 500-1000 CDs are usually done with so called disc duplicators. Look for "Rimage" or "Primera Technology" if you want to see how they look like. These systems simple burn CDs as you would at home (Orange Book, disc-at-once), but usually have more options for label printing.
As input media for duplication (as opposed to replication) simple CD-R is used almost exclusively I believe. But really, ask the company you're dealing with, which format they prefer.
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Originally Posted by Vendetta V
An good tutorials on both Cue/Bin and DDP?
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What exactly do you want to know?
Side note: I'd always use cue/wav instead of cue/bin, because it's easier to listen to the audio, almost every program can read wave files.
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Originally Posted by mad demon
Cool I didn't know that. What applications support it?
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As far as I can tell DDP supports DVD (any format), Red Book (CD Audio), Yellow Book (Data CD, often called CD-ROM), Green Book (CD-i), and multi-session CDs (e.g. Orange Book). I do not find Blue Book explicitly mentioned in the specs, but as far as I know, it's only a specific usage of the multi-session format. The input format for glass mastering is usually DDP, so every disc which can be pressed, can be represented as DDP as far as I know.
When a replicator get's a CD-R or a Nero Image (or a cue/bin image, if that's accepted), they'll first convert that to DDP. But that shouldn't bother you, as the conversion is transparent. In the end, it's like you say: what the plant accepts is what you should deliver. Simple.
BTW, I think the reason that Reaper outputs cue sheets is that a lot of burning programs can read it. One of them, which is even open source, comes bundled with reaper.
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Originally Posted by mad demon
I agree on the double quotes in CD text part. I'm still don't sure how this is done. We just simply use "First "Nick" Last" and had no problems so far.
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Good to hear. I've made cue2ddp to deal with quotes exactly as you expect, but I think I've seen other parsers doing it differently - maybe I'm wrong, it's been a while I did research on this issue.
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Originally Posted by mad demon
Regarding the file encoding: Cuesheet ASCII and Audio Data WAVE or Binary. I don't see any problem there.
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Yepp, if you stick to ASCII you're safe.
(If you need other characters it get's a bit tricky. Reaper would write an UTF-8 encoded cue sheet in that case, which I wouldn't rely on being read correctly.)
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Originally Posted by mad demon
I also find it easy to add gaps move indexes etc. (in cue sheets)
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Absolute. That part (P and Q subcode) is complete, I just wanted to mention, that not all CD Text fields can be set with a cue sheet. Not a big deal though, as I'd stay with title an performer anyway. (But if for whatever reason you need full control, you'd have to use the CDTEXFILE command and provide a binary CD text file, which you could not write in a text editor--unfortunately).