Create a audio cd with mulimedia functions??

[rstella]

I'd like to create a audio cd....that also has a multimedia section when you put it in your pc. Just like a lot of new cds that come out now with the bands website, links to website/fan club sites, video clips and so on....can any body help me out? It might be a simple process...but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bob

[Cornucopia]

What you're referring to is an "Enhanced AudioCD" also known as a "CD Extra" or "CD Plus", or possibly "Blue Book CD".

In the past there have been other methods to create this (with various results), but the current method is this:

• 1. Burn Standard Audio Tracks--but DON'T close the disc, just the session.
  2. This creates a "Session-At-Once" disc (SAO), w_audio trax in the 1st session.
  3. Use either a standard data CD-XA ISO/Joliet filesystem for the 2nd session, or...
  4. Possibly use a true "Blue Book"-compatible filesystem (Bridge CD-XA ISO, w_particular settings & folder structure)
  5. Burn this session, close the session and the disc. Done!

Add your data files to the ISO session, in whatever configuration you want--pdf's, web pages, mpeg's, powerpoint shows, flash, director shows, etc. If you add the usual autorun.inf stuff to the root directory, you can get the data session to autorun.
Also, with Roxio's Toast (Mac OS's), you can make the data session Hybrid Mac/PC, either or both of which could be set to autorun.

HTH,
Scott

[rstella]

So I'm guessing I need to do this on a cd-rw for the master copy then i can copy the finished to regular cd-rs? Where do I set the auto run for the media part of the cd for when it is put in the pc? and what software do you use? easiest to learn?

[Cornucopia]

So I'm guessing I need to do this on a cd-rw for the master copy then i can copy the finished to regular cd-rs? Where do I set the auto run for the media part of the cd for when it is put in the pc? and what software do you use? easiest to learn?

No, usually you can't do this on a CD-RW. Why?
Because most apps and most standalone duplicators will NOT duplicate multi-session discs. Multi-TRACK discs--yes. Multi-SESSION discs--no.

This means if you want to do a number of discs as copies, you must save a disc image of the audio tracks session and also save the disc image of the data session. Then you must burn in "SAO" the audio disc image to each copy, and then turn around and burn the data disc image (and then finalize) to each copy again. Big pain, sorry.

Maybe there is an app that can copy multi-session discs--ANYONE?

As far as autorun is concerned, I've posted in a number of past threads on how to set up autorun, do a search of this site...or do a google search. There should be some good stuff on Microsoft's site since they created the "autorun" system. The good part is that you just need NOTEPAD, or another text editor, to create the autorun.inf file.

HTH,
Scott