PARAGON CD-ROM Emulator 3.0 User Manual
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1. of totally 8 subcode channels Subchannels take 1 byte per frame which constitute 96 bytes of subchannel data plus 2 bytes of subchannel parity per CD sector The CD specifications from the Red Book declare using P and Q subchannels for servicing purposes in all CD formats and additionally using R W subchannels in CD Graphics and CD Text formats In addition some copy protection schemes use subchannels for their purposes 1 Note that the RAW SUB reading mode is supported by modern CD drives only 4 5 5 Screen 3 Selecting Tracks Grab Wizard Tracks E Audio Track 1 E Audio Track 2 Ch Audio Track 3 E Audio Track 4 E Audio Track 5 E Audio Track 6 E Audio Track 7 E Audio Track 8 E Audio Track 9 00 03 56 00 03 34 00 07 05 00 04 46 OO 06 24 00 07 50 OO Os 25 00 03 50 OO OO 39 56 MB 36 06 ME 1 61 MB 45 27 ME 4 36 MB 73 09 MB a457 ME 30 77 MB 0 61 ME Select All Tracks Unselect All Tracks File Mame Speak To Me Breathe In Th n The Run Time The Great Gig In The Sky Money Us And Therm Any Colour You Like Brain Damage Eclipse gt ile Back Cancel Help On this screen one can select tracks to be grabbed in case of multiple tracks are on the CD DVD There is a tracks list in the middle of the screen The list displays e Track type encoded by an icon folder for data tracks speaker for audio tracks e Track size in MB and in playtime format min sec2. This field contains the full filename and path to the newly created image The button on the right allows selecting the required file in the explorer like window 4 4 2 5 Estimated image file s size This textual filed displays the future size of the newly created image in MB When files are added or removed from the lower panel the program recalculates this value During the image creation the program does not perform any validation checks of the image size 4 4 2 6 Free space This textual filed displays amount of free space on a drive that is currently selected for storing the new image This value allows to evaluate a possibility of creating an image on a currently drive 4 4 2 7 Construct Image If this button was pressed the program starts the image creation process CD ROM Emulator builds the ISO image and copies selected files and directories to it The ISO image meets CD ROM XA or DVD ROM specifications The actual image format depends on the resulting image size 4 5 Grab Wizard The Grab Wizard is intended for making images 1 e virtual CDs from physical CD and DVD discs Virtual CDs can be played in virtual drives of CD ROM Emulator Virtual CDs and virtual CD drives have many advantages in comparison with real ones see the chapter named Introduction The function of making virtual CDs is commonly named grabbing Concerning to CD ROM Emulator it is one of the essential functions CD ROM Emulator allow
3. 42 min 55 sec Any Y Comments Sectors 193150 EMI mastering Tracks 3 Sessions 1 Version 1 06 OF Cancel Apply Help Cancel Apply Help The Image file properties dialog allows controlling behavior settings of CD images The dialog is available through the popup menu for virtual CDs listed in the Collection of CD images The dialog contains two tabs the General and Hot Key ones The General tab just displays general information about the selected CD image such as image filename and location image size in MB and playing time amount of tracks sessions and sectors The Hot Key tab partially duplicates functionality of the Image Usability screen of the Grab Wizard see the section Screen 5 Image Usability options Generally CD ROM Emulator supports the feature of the fast image insertion When a user presses the hot key the program automatically inserts the virtual CD in the virtual CD drive 3 2 1 1 Image hot key This field allows defining the so called hot key or fast access key for the fast image insertion To define the hot key 1 Place the cursor into this filed 2 Press a desired key on the keyboard The program will display the Ctrl Alt key combination in the filed CD ROM Emulator allows using CTRL ALT KEY Fnn Ctrl Alt Shift Fnn keyboard combinations as hot keys 3 2 1 2 Image will be inserted automatically to the drive This pull down list allows choo
4. Service Provider e From lists of Public Proxy Servers e g http www publicproxyservers com 3 3 1 3 Port Assign the port number parameter for the used proxy server in this field The port number 1s the important parameter of a connection 1t actually identifies a remote service being requested For proxy service usually 80 8080 and 3128 values are in use 3 3 1 4 User Name In this field the user account registered in the FreeDB should be entered To use the FreeDB service one should register in the FreeDB see the next section 3 3 1 5 Password In this field the password to the user account in the FreeDB should be entered This password can be received at the registration in the FreeDB see the next section 3 3 2 Using FreeDB service The FreeDB is a database to look up CD information using the Internet A FreeDB client uses a disc ID for retrieving information from the CD database the artist CD title track list and some additional info CD ROM Emulator allows using FreeDB service for retrieving CD title information for grabbed Audio CDs To use this service one should pass the free registration on the FreeDB site http www freedb org 1 Run the web browser and go to the FreeDB website http www freedb org 2 On the first page click the Your Account link left side of the screen bottom the main menu section or enter the following address in the Address bar http www freedb org modules php name Y
5. block e File Name for a volume of the image that will contain this track The first column includes a checkmark for every track If the checkmark is set the track will be grabbed and included in the CD image Otherwise the track will be ignored For audio files produced by CD ROM Emulator file names are generated by following rules e Incase of FreeDB is enabled and is available the program will restore album name and track titles from the database of FreeDB e Otherwise the program will automatically generate file names from the Image Label and track number e Inany case audio files will have WAN extension regardless of their real audio format e g MPEG Layer 3 files will have WAV extension instead of commonly used MP3 4 5 5 1 Select all Tracks Press this button to select all tracks to be grabbed 4 5 5 2 Unselect all Tracks Press this button to deselect all tracks 4 5 5 3 Player buttons Play Pause Stop CD ROM Emulator allows playing selected audio tracks Play button triangle starts playing from the first marked audio track Pause two lines and Stop square buttons pause and stop playing respectively 4 5 6 Screen 4 Image Location options Grab Wizard PA imene MIE DSi The Dark Side OF The Moon ee Image Label The Dark Side OF The M x Available Hard Drives Local Disk CC 033 39 MB Local Disk Di 2644 84 MB Local Disk E 428 51 MB Local Disk 15 649 59 MB Local Disk H
6. control This feature is available only in images of CDI format On the fifth screen define usability options for the new image a hot key in the Shortcut field a CD icon a folder of the Collection of CD images where the image will be placed and Comments which are a popup hint for the new image Press the Finish button to begin the disc grabbing The program will display the progress of the operation 4 5 2 Screen 1 Source drive Grab Wizard xX Source Media Source Drive lec CD RW NR 91004 Fs al Label Half Disc 2 Source Media Information File System Media Capacity Copy Protection Cancel Help 4 5 2 1 Source Drive This pull down list displays all CD DVD recordable physical drives which are available in the system The user should choose the drive that is actually in use The small button on right simply opens the Windows Explorer in order to allow a user inspect contents of CD drive s in a usual fashion 4 5 2 2 Label This field displays the textual label of a disc that is currently inserted to the selected CD DVD drive e For data CDs this information is taken from data tracks e For audio CDs the label displays text Audio CD 4 5 2 3 Source Media Information This section displays general information about the currently inserted disc e Actual File System e Total disc capacity Oe amount of information on the disc e Used copy protection 4 5 3 Screen 2 Grabbing op
7. equals to 218 blocks Total blacks 330041 Blocks successtully read 217225 Blocks read with errors 1 This dialog displays detailed information about the operation progress the index of a currently grabbed track track grabbing progress and overall disc grabbing progress elapsed time estimated remaining time and optionally the status map of disc blocks 4 5 8 1 Show Hide Block Read Map This button toggles on off the status map of disc blocks 4 5 8 2 Cancel Grabbing This button allows a user aborting the grabbing process at any time In this case the incomplete image will be erased 5 Command line mode The CD ROM Emulator supports a command line operating mode You can manage the program directly from the MS DOS prompt It gives you a possibility to develop batch files and scripts for the automation of different operations with CD images compact disks and CD DVD ROM drives This chapter is oriented to advanced users Be very careful while using command line control of CD ROM Emulator In order to work with a command line you should type the name of the executable file CDDVDMAN EXE and one or some of the represented below commands in a line of a bath file a script or directly in the MS DOS prompt Usually the CDDVDMAN EXE file is used for starting the standard window of CD ROM Emulator However if you follow the adopted command line syntax the program will work in silent mode and the program window will not open The C
8. images Create a new subfolder in the Collection of CD images Move to upper level folder Exit the CD ROM Emulator Manager Run the online help system Both Physical and Virtual CD DVD drives Always available Folders subfolders of any level Virtual CDs that are listed in the Collection of CD images Folders subfolders of any level Subfolders only not allowed for the top level folders Always available Always available 2 1 3 Utilities toolbar The Utilities toolbar is located on the left of the main window The Utilities toolbar is intended for fast running CD ROM Emulator s Wizards which provide all the functionality of creating and managing virtual CD drives and virtual CDs The Utilities toolbar contains two tabs named Wizards and Devices Starts the Grab Wizard The Grab Wizard creates new virtual CDs from real ones Starts the Construct Wizard The Construct Wizard allows creating virtual CDs from arbitrary files Starts the Erase Wizard The Erase Wizard erases contents of rewritable media to make them being writable again Starts the Find Wizard The find Wizard searches CD images and adds them to the Collection of CD images Starts the Drive Manager The Drive Manager allows mapping and removing virtual CD drives in the system Drive Manager 2 1 4 CD Database Explorer The CD Database Explorer 1s located on the right of the main window The CD Database Explorer is intended
9. option was turned OFF the program pauses when detecting bad blocks on a CD DVD disc and displays the warning message A user is allowed Abort abort the operation Retry retry reading data one more time Ignore save data remember the error and continue working The CD image will contain the same error at this place If this option is turned ON the program does not stop when detecting bad blocks but continues the procedure as if a user says Ignore 4 5 4 2 Use Software ECC If this option is turned ON the program tries disabling the verification of ECC on hardware side and using own software module instead This feature allows accelerating the CD reading This feature requires supporting from the hardware side 4 5 4 3 Numbers of Retries In this spinner control set the amount tries the program should make before displaying the warning message about read errors 4 5 4 4 Read Speed This pull down list displays correct values of reading speed The special item Max means automatically selecting the best acceptable speed value this option is the default one The manual deceleration of reading speed may help in case of using worn out or low quality discs 4 5 4 5 Cooked In case of this choice was selected the program reads only cooked data from data tracks and only audio data from audio tracks This mode of reading is supported by all models of CD and DVD drives In this mode textual and graphics information cannot be copied f
10. portable computers DL a a 1 1 System Requirements The following system specifications are required for installing and running Paragon CD ROM Emulator ver 3 0 e Windows 98 98 SE ME with at least 64 MB RAM or Windows 2000 XP with at least 128 MB RAM Pentium family CPU 10 MB hard disk space for installation of the CD ROM Emulator software Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 0 or later for viewing Help optional Sound card for using CDs with audio tracks optional Internet access to retrieve audio CD titles optional 2 Interface overview CD ROM Emulator consists of two major components the CD ROM Emulator Driver and the CD ROM Emulator Manager The CD ROM Emulator Driver is responsible for background activity of the product such as emulating virtual CD drives playing virtual CDs and interaction with an operating system The CD ROM Emulator Manager is responsible for all management tasks such as mapping and removing virtual CD drives creating and cataloguing CD images and controlling behavior of virtual drives and discs 2 1 Layout of the main window fe Virtual CD Emulator Manager loj x File Drive View Tools FreeDB Help E Search Add Delete Mew Folder Up Exit Help he ES Be ou Track Session Type Mode Time size kE 01 01 Data 2forml 73 44 648 1 MB ee y DYD Video eg S CD DVD Overview Find Wizard A ees The main window of CD ROM Emulator Manager includes seve
11. the Utilities Bar at the left of the CD ROM Emulator Manager s window Run the Erase Wizard that allows returning rewritable CD DVD discs to the writable state Run the Find Wizard that allows searching CD images not listed in the Collection Display amp edit general settings of the CD ROM Emulator Manage r FreeDB o Enable FreeDB Allows using FreeDB database to distinguish CD titles for Audio CDs being grabbed Proxy Settings Set both the FreeDB account and the proxy server settings Help topics Display Help contents Display the About the Program dialog 2 2 2 Physical CD DVD drive context menu Browse contents of a CD by the standard Windows Explorer tool Available only in case of a CD is inserted in the drive Available only in case of a virtual CD is inserted in the drive Make the CD image from the physical CD and add it to the Collection of CD Images Available only in case of a CD is inserted in the drive CD DVD drive properties Display properties of the selected physical CD drive 2 2 3 Virtual CD drive context menu Browse contents of a virtual CD by the standard Windows Explorer tool Available only in case of a virtual CD is inserted in the drive Eject Eject a virtual CD from the virtual CD drive O Available only in case of a virtual CD is inserted in the drive CD DVD drive properties Display amp edit properties of the selected virtual CD drive 2 2 4 Virtual CD context menu Insert Insert this virtual
12. 513 91 MB Local Disk 1 1342 97 MB o Estimated Image Size 433 22 ME Available Disk Space On Target Drive 2644582 MB Back Mext gt Cancel Help 4 5 6 1 Image File Enter the full filename and path for the new image into this field The button on the right allows selecting the directory and the filename in the explorer like window By default the image filename coincides with the Image Label 4 5 6 2 Image Label Enter the desired image label to this field The image label will be used in the Collection of CD images to represent this image In case of the FreeDB is enabled and is available the program will suggest using the album name as a default image label 4 5 6 3 Available Drives This list displays all local drives mapped in the system with mention of their drive letter and free space In case of some drive is selected in the list the program suggests placing the new image to the root directory of this drive Two informational fields placed below the list displays an expected image size Estimated Image size and amount of free space on a disk that is actually targeted to hold the image Available Disk Space on Target Drive 4 5 7 Screen 5 Image Usability options x Shortcut None Icon i Gh Change Icon Folder audio M Comments Fink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon EMI mastering Back Cancel Help On this screen the image usability options can be defined These settin
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14. CD in a virtual CD drive In case of some drive was assigned in the Image properties the virtual CD disc is inserted in the predefined virtual drive Otherwise the program suggests choosing a targeted drive properties of the selected CD image 2 2 5 CD folder context menu Add Image Manually include a CD image which is not listed in the Collection to this folder Note that this item does not activate the Find Wizard Remove an image from the Collection with the ability of deletion image files from disk New Folder Create a new subfolder in this folder Rename this folder 3 Settings The CD ROM Emulator Manager allows controlling properties and settings for following objects The CD ROM Emulator Manager Virtual CDs 1 e CD Images that are listed in the Collection of CD Images Virtual CD drives FreeDB connection amp registration 3 1 CD ROM Emulator Manager settings Yirtual CD Emulator Options x General Options Language Enable drive creation tooltip Enable logging The CD ROM Emulator options dialog allows controlling most general settings of the CD ROM Emulator The dialog is available through the main menu Tools gt Settings 3 1 1 1 Language This pull down list allows choosing an interface language for the CD ROM Emulator Manager Reloadable language resources are located in LangXXXX DLL files that are located in the CD ROM Emulator installation directory These files are distribut
15. DDVDMAN EXE file is located at the same folder where all the CD ROM Emulator files were placed in the course of the installation 5 1 The syntax Commands must be typed at a line in the following way CDDVDMAN command cmdi parameters1 cmd2 parameters2 omdN parametersN Here CDDVDMAN is the program executable file name The next word command switches the program starting to the command line mode You can also use just c instead of the full name In this case the line will look so CDDVDMAN c cmd1 parameters1 Then you can type the program commands themselves They are represented in the formula by identifiers cmd1 cmd2 cemdN The commands are separated by commas All the possible commands are described below at the section Commands of the CD ROM Emulator There are not allowed any spaces between service words of the command line There are only two exceptional cases spaces of file names and the space between words CDDVDMAN and e It is clear that commands can have their parameters They must be enclosed in quotation marks with the hyphen symbol before the list The parameter list must follow a corresponding command If the program cannot execute the typed command then it terminates its work and returns one of the error codes But you may need uninterrupted execution of some commands sequence In this case you should use the apostrophe symbol that must be typed in t
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17. astest speed is selected However it can be inappropriate in case of using worn out discs in this case the speed should be decelerated 7 Press the Next button to start the erasing process The program will display the progress of the operation Ce i a 4 3 2 Dialog description 4 3 2 1 Drive This pull down list displays all CD DVD recordable physical drives which are available in the system The user should choose the drive that is actually in use 4 3 2 2 Erase disc in the fast way only TOC will be erased If this choice was selected the program erases only the TOC and PMA of a rewritable disc Contents erasing is required for over writing information on rewritable CD DVD media it is not applicable for WORM Write Once Recordable Media such as CD R DVD R and DVD R discs The erasing itself means filling data audio and subcodes with zeroes the so called Logical Erase The fast erasing method assumes erasing only the TOC and PMA Table Of Contents and Program Memory Area a temporal TOC for un closed session of a disc this procedure is relatively fast and takes just a few minutes In fact the fast erasing produces good results only for well qualitative equipment and unworn media In case of using worn out media write errors may accumulate on the disc The full erase method allows elongating slightly the lifetime of an intensively used rewritable disc 4 3 2 3 Erase disc in the full way whole disc will be erase
18. command a GF If 1t is not important which drive letter exactly is assigned to a new virtual drive then you should use the question symbol instead of a concrete letter The following command line adds new drive G and two new CD ROM drives with any drive letters those are not in use of the operating system cddvdman command a G 5 2 2 Remove a virtual CD ROM drive s To remove a virtual CD ROM drive you should use the r identifier as a command You need to type drive letters for each removing drive in the parameters section of the command line Drive letters doesn t separate in the line by any symbols For example the command line of the removing of two virtual drives G and F looks so cddvdman command r GF 5 2 3 Insert a CD image into a virtual CD ROM drive 66899 1 To insert a CD image into a virtual CD ROM drive you should use the i identifier as a command You need to type a drive letters and the CD image file name including the full path to this file in the parameters section of the command line The image file name can be a long file name with spaces and non Latin characters For example the command line of the inserting of the CD image d the image cdi into the virtual CD ROM drive G looks so cddvdman command i G d the image cdi 5 2 4 Eject a CD image from a virtual CD ROM drive To eject a CD image from a virtual CD ROM drive you should use the e identifier as a command You need
19. d If this choice was selected the program erases entire contents of a rewritable disc Contents erasing 1s required for over writing information on rewritable CD DVD media it is not applicable for WORM Write Once Recordable Media such as CD R DVD R and DVD R discs The erasing itself means filling data audio and subcodes with zeroes the so called Logical Erase The full erasing method assumes erasing all logical information on a disc TOC and data of all sessions and tracks This procedure is slow and takes dozens of minutes In most cases the fast erasing can be used instead of the full erasing The only advantage of the full erase method is that it allows elongating slightly the lifetime of an intensively used rewritable disc 4 3 2 4 Eject disc after burning has completed If this option was turned ON the program automatically ejects media after completing the erasing procedure Some early models of recordable CD drives require ejecting just erased media otherwise they cannot continue working with it 4 3 2 5 Speed This pull down list displays correct values of erasing speed In case media is already inserted to the selected recordable CD DVD drive the program displays speed values that are correct for both drive and rewritable disc Otherwise it displays all speed values supported by the selected drive The special item Fastest means automatically selecting the best acceptable speed value with taking into account paramet
20. e added per a single Drive Manager s session 3 To remove an existing virtual CD drive just remove a checkmark against an appropriate drive letter 4 Changes in virtual CD drives distribution will come into effect after pressing Apply or OK buttons 4 1 2 Defining properties of a virtual CD drive CD ROM Emulator provides the ability of setting behavior options for each virtual CD drive independently Use the following procedure to set properties of a virtual CD drive L 2 Select an existing virtual CD drive in the CD ROM Emulator Manager Call the popup menu for the selected virtual CD drive by clicking the right mouse button 3 Select the item CD DVD drive properties The detailed description of virtual CD drive properties is provided in the section Virtual CD drive settings Below a brief description is provided The CD DVD Device properties window contains two tabs The first one named General CD DVD Properties includes only information about drive letter assigned the Vendor ID and the Product ID The second tab that is named Virtual CD DVD Properties includes options that affect on the virtual CD drive behavior Mount for this session only If the option was set CD ROM Emulator automatically removes this virtual CD drive at the end of Windows session By default the program creates virtual CD drives for a permanent use Mount drive for this user only If this choice was selected the selected virtual CD dr
21. ed This feature is available only for CDI images 4 5 3 6 Codec This pull down list allows selecting an audio codec that should be used for grabbing audio tracks to audio files Normally CD ROM Emulator does not save contents of audio tracks but converts them into audio files To complete such a conversion audio codec software is required CD ROM Emulator allows using audio codecs that are registered in Windows The registered audio codecs are listed in the Windows Device Manager Device Manager gt Sound video and game controllers gt Audio codecs 1 This feature is available only for CDs that have audio tracks CD Audio CD Extra Mixed Mode CD 4 5 3 7 Bitrate This pull down list allows selecting the bit rate for the chosen audio codec This parameter is a composite parameter that includes amount of channels mono stereo sample rate in kHz channel capacity bit per channel or bit rate in Kbits sec The bit rate affects on the quality of grabbed audio data and on size of resulting files 1 This feature is available only for CDs that have audio tracks CD Audio CD Extra Mixed Mode CD 4 5 4 Advanced grabbing options Advanced Options x Ignore Bad Blocks e Cooked Use Software ECC Number OF Retries 2 E Raw PO Subchannel Read Speed Max Raw raw DAN Subchannel Cancel The Advanced options dialog allows customizing the grabbing process 4 5 4 1 Ignore Bad Blocks If this
22. ed for displaying prompts and brief information about status of performed operations It does not provide any other functionality 2 2 The Program Menus This chapter reviews the functionality available via program s menus Main menu Context menu for physical CD DVD drives Context menu for virtual CD DVD drives Context menu for virtual CDs Context menu for categories in the Collection of CD Images 2 2 1 Main Menu File LI Ne Available only in case of some folder was selected in the Manager s window Image TI Grab Wizard that allows creating CD images from physical CD DVD discs Construct Wizard that allows creating CD images from arbitrarily selected files Add Image Manually include a CD image which is not listed in the Collection to this folder Note that this item does not activate the Find Wizard Exit Exit the CD ROM Emulator Manager This action does not remove virtual CD devices Drive Explore Browse contents of a CD by the standard Windows Explorer tool Available only in case of a CD is inserted in the drive Eject a CD from the selected CD drive Add drive Run the Drive Manager in order to add manage virtual CD drives Available only for virtual CD drives Remove drive Remove the virtual CD drive from the system and unmap the drive letter Available only for virtual CD drives Display properties of the selected physical CD drive Display amp edit properties of the selected virtual CD drive View o S O Show
23. ed through the company s download site 3 1 1 2 Enable drive creation tooltip If this option is turned ON the program displays the notification balloon when creating a new virtual CD drive y Action in progress x Creating drive Y The operation of a new virtual CD drive creation may take several seconds in Windows 2000 and XP During this process this drive cannot be used 3 1 1 3 Enable logging If this option is turned ON the program keeps log files during all the working session The program saves exhaustive information about working of all components of the CD ROM Emulator user actions and errors that appear during the session Log files can be very useful for the program s debugging CD ROM Emulator holds following log files CDDVDMan log and Tray log The program always appends these files so that they can have large size Use this option is the following manner in case of you meet some problems in using the CD ROM Emulator turn on the LOG mode and repeat the erroneous operation Then pick up CDDVDMan log and Tray log files attach to the support request mail and send them to the company s Support Team 3 2 Image settings Image file properties i x General Hot Key Image file properties x General Hot Key Image hot key Cv Alb 5 Image Will be inserted automatically to the drive The Dark Side Of The Moon Image path Daf he Dark Side OF The Moon cO Image size 36 1 MB
24. ers of both drive and disc The Fastest option is the default one In fact the manual deceleration of erasing speed is sensible only in case of using worn out or low quality discs 4 4 Construct Wizard Construct Wizard x Please drag files and directories you want From the upper to the lower tree Glan Parson s Project H Gelinda Carlisle agm Gig Collection Celtic Spirit chs see e Por yp E SE CD Volume Label 27 Alan Parson s Project 27 Belinda Carlisle C9 Big Collection Ey Celtic Spirit E Cher E Chinese Pop 23 ELO Ki Estimated image File s size 3383 MB Parameters Image Icon Image Filename B D CD best 1 iso Free Space orot 23 ME Construct Image Cancel The Construct Wizard is intended for building virtual CDs from files located on a hard disk s The Construct Wizard creates a valid ISO image from selected files as if they were grabbed from a real CD or DVD The ISO image meets CD ROM XA and DVD ROM specifications filesystems ISO 9660 Joliet and UDF Bridge respectively The actually used format depends on the image size The ISO images can be used for e playing in virtual CD drives as data CDs e writing to recordable CDs and DVDs by using the Burn Wizard of the CD ROM Emulator or other CD DVD burning software Note image compression and multivolume image features are not supported for ISO images 4 4 1 Using Construct Wizard Use the Cons
25. for organizing and displaying contents of the Collection of CD images in hierarchic form and quick managing virtual CD drives and physical CD DVD devices In the Collection of CD images all virtual CDs are sorted in multiple categories which are displayed as collection folders A user is allowed manipulating CD images listed in the Collection of CD images arbitrarily move virtual CDs between folders 1 e categories create new folders 1 e categories and subfolders subcategories rename folders with the exception of default ones rename virtual CDs delete folders with the exception of default ones The special category folder named CD DVD Overview provides the throughout list of all virtual CDs in the Collection generally for the fast searching lost virtual CDs Within this category no sub categories can be created and no virtual CDs can be moved in 2 1 5 Track Player The Track Player appears at the lower right of the main window if a virtual CD was selected in the Collection of CD images The Track Player is intended for quick playing audio tracks When a user selects a virtual CD i e CD image in the Collection of CD images the Track Player appears on the screen It displays properties of all tracks of the selected CD image and allows playing audio tracks without inserting the virtual CD to a virtual CD drive 2 1 6 Status bar The Status bar is located on the bottom of the main window The Status bar is intend
26. gs make the using of images easy and comfortable 4 5 7 1 Shortcut This field allows defining the so called hor key or fast access key for the fast image insertion To define the hot key 1 Place cursor move focus into the Shortcut filed 2 Press a desired key on the keyboard The program will display the Ctrl Alt key combination in the filed CD ROM Emulator allows using CTRL ALT KEY Fnn Ctrl Alt Shift Fnn keyboard combinations as hot keys 4 5 7 2 Icon Each image is represented by a small picture or icon This field displays the icon currently associated with the image One can change the icon by pressing the Change Icon button 4 5 7 3 Folder This pull down list allows choosing a folder within the Collection of CD images to place the new image to The pull down list allows selecting an appropriate folder 4 5 7 4 Comments This textual field allows assigning a popup hint prompt to the new image This hint appears in case of moving the mouse cursor over the image 4 5 8 Screen 6 Grabbing progress Grabbing in progress x Process Progress Grabbing Track 4 Current track grabbing progress Total progress Time Estimations Elapsed Time 00 03 41 Remaining Time 00 01 54 Cancel Grabbing O O O OOOO O O OOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoOoOOOoOO0000 O Unread blocks E Successtully read blocks E Unsuccesstully read blacks 1 Brick
27. he line just after the command name before the parameter list For example the command line cddvdman command a G i G d image cdi allows to add a new virtual CD ROM drive G and then insert the CD image d image cdi into this drive Assume that the drive G has existed already Then the program terminates its work with an error code and the CD image will not be inserted into the G drive Your task will not be done To avoid similar problems you should just add the apostrophe after the command cddvdman command a G i G d image cdi The apostrophe symbol is optional its usage depends on a particular task To get a short reference concern the command line mode you should use the command h without any parameters In this case the line will look so CDDVDMAN c h 5 2 Commands of the CD ROM Emulator Many of the program operations can be executed from a command line CD ROM Emulator commands are easy to write although their reading and editing need more attention from a user s side 5 2 1 Add a new virtual CD ROM drive s To add a new virtual CD ROM drive you should use the a identifier as a command The new drives will be added for the current Windows session only You need to type drive letters for each adding drive in the parameters section of the command line Drive letters doesn t separated by any symbols For example the command line of the adding of two virtual CD ROM drives G and F looks so cddvdman
28. in window of the CD ROM Emulator Manager Images are added to the root folder and duplicates are omitted A user must explicitly select images to add 4 3 Erase Wizard Erase Wizard xX AP Drive lo TOSHIBA DVD ROM SO RSODE Options e Erase disk in the fast way only TOC will be erased Erase disk in the full way whole disk will be erased Eject disk after burning has completed Back Cancel Help The Erase Wizard is intended for erasing non empty rewritable media Erasing is required for non empty media to be writable again writing to non empty media is not allowed The program can erase any type of rewritable media supported by CD DVD recording hardware installed on the computer Rewritable media types CD RW DVD RW DVD RW and DVD RAM 4 3 1 Using Erase Wizard Use the Erase Wizard in the following manner Insert a rewritable disc to the CD DVD recordable drive Start the Erase Wizard In the Drive pull down list select the drive in use In the section named Options select the erasing method fast or full method If required set the option Eject disk after burning has completed If this option is selected the program will eject media after completing the erasing procedure Additionally you can specify the writing speed for the erasing process in the pull down list named Speed In this list the program displays all admittable values for this parameter By default the F
29. ion the extensions for files are set automatically r number of retries to read bad blocks default value is 2 b ignore Bad Blocks option 0 do not ignore 1 to ignore the default value is ignore m image format 0 CDI 1 ISO 2 CCD the default value is CDD e use Software ECC 0 do not use 1 to use the default is do not use g sub channel reading mode for CDI image only 0 cooked 1 raw 2 raw P Q 3 raw raw P W the default value is cooked c compression level for CDI image only 0 no compression 1 9 compression level the default value depends on CD DVD data like in the user mode v volume size in Mb for CDI image only 1 2047 MB the default value is 2047 MB s read speed 1 1x 2 2x 4 4x etc the default value is Maximum For example the command line of grabbing CD in the drive G to c image cdi will looks so cddvdman command g d G f c image 1 In command line CDE grabs ALL tracks from CD DVD There is no any possibility to select various tracks to grab 1 There is no possibility to set the codec for Audio in the command line mode 5 3 The error code list Interpretation ICI fem Invalid function Invalid handle a drive is not opened A drive or a file is not exists e File not found roca mts I Tamm
30. ive is available for the user who creates this drive only but not for others It appears in the system only after the user logs on to the system Mount drive for all users at system startup If this choice was selected the selected virtual CD drive is available for all users It appears in the system after the starting the CD ROM Emulator service This feature is available for members of the Administrators group only Enable Autorun This option switches ON OFF the Autoplay feature that is supported by Windows The feature requires rebooting the system in order to come into effect 4 2 Find Wizard Find Wizard l i xX Search from Folder Di ek Image Files to search For D image Files cdi cod iso Stark Search Add Selected Image Files to current Folder Images Found Mame DAMORROwING cdi 645 ME Back Cancel Help The Find Wizard is intended for searching CD images which are not listed in the Collection of CD images on local hard disks The program recognizes CD images of following formats e ISO generic CD images in ISO 9660 compliant format e CCD images in CloneCD format e CDI images in CD ROM Emulator format Found images can be selectively included to the Collection of CD images 4 2 1 Using Find Wizard Use the Find Wizard in the following manner 1 Start the Find Wizard 2 Choose the type of images to be searched in the pull down list named Image files t
31. lue cannot be changed 4 5 3 3 Image Format This pull down list allows selecting the type of the newly created CD image CD ROM Emulator allows creating CD images of several formats e ISO generic CD images in ISO 9660 compliant format e CCD images in CloneCD format e CDI images in CD ROM Emulator format Each of image formats has advantages and disadvantages Acceptable media Characteristics Popularity Any CD and DVD Supports compression multivolume Supported only by CD ROM Emulator types images variable data thoroughness from plain data to exact CD copy DVD is not Detailing level cannot be changed CD ROM Emulator Alcohol120 and supported some other CD emulation software Unprotected data Simplest and prevalent data format Supported by almost all CD emulation and CDs and DVD CD burning software 4 5 3 4 Advanced By pressing this button the Advanced Grab Options dialog can be started Any CD types Very exhaustive copy of CD contents Supported by CloneCD format originator In the mode of Automatic profile selection the contents of this dialog depend on the selected profile and CD image format The detailed dialog description is placed in the section Advanced grabbing options 4 5 3 5 Data Compression This slider control allows choosing a compression level The maximum level usually halves the image size for most game CDs the actual compression rate fundamentally depends on data being process
32. o search for Available options ISO CCD CDI or all of them 3 Select a top level directory or a disk to be scanned in the field named Search from folder The Find Wizard will scan this directory and all of its subfolders Press the Start search button to begin searching images The program will display found images in the list labeled Images found One can stop scanning before the process ends by pressing the Stop button located on the bottom of the window Select explicitly images that should be included to the database Then press the button Add selected images to current folder oe Ao The program will insert selected images to the Root Folder of the Collection of CD images Duplicates will be ignored 4 2 2 Dialog description 4 2 2 1 Search from folder This field contains the name of the scanned directory The program will search files in the directory and all of its subdirectories The button on the right allows selecting the required directory in the explorer like window 4 2 2 2 Image files to search for This pull down list allows specifying the type of files to be searched Available values e ISO files generic CD images in ISO 9660 compliant format e CCD files images in CloneCD format e CDI files images in CD ROM Emulator format 4 2 2 3 Start search Start the searching procedure 4 2 2 4 Add selected images to current folder Adds found images to the Collection of CD images in the ma
33. omponents e Drive Manager The Drive Manager is intended for adding removing virtual CD drives to the system e Grab Wizard The Grab Wizard is intended for making CD images from physical CD and DVD discs e Construct Wizard The Construct Wizard is intended for building virtual CDs from files located on a hard disk s e Erase Wizard The Erase Wizard is intended for erasing rewritable media e Find Wizard The Find Wizard is intended for searching CD images which are not listed in the Collection of CD images e CD Database Explorer The CD Database Explorer is intended for organizing virtual CDs 4 1 Drive Manager x AL Select virtual drives E kg TOSHIBA DVD ROM SD R5002 EN MAG In use amas Available MESA Available Mi Available iG Available Ak Available MES Available Arm Available FAN Available aro Available CAP Available io Available arr Available mess Available ler Available OK Cancel Apply The Drive Manager is intended for adding removing virtual CD drives to the system Virtual CD drives of CD ROM Emulator can play virtual CD discs of ISO CCD and CDI formats 4 1 1 Using Drive Manager Use the Drive Manager in the following manner 1 Start the Drive Manager The Drive Manager lists all drive letters that can be used or are already used by virtual CD drives 2 To add a new virtual CD drive just set a checkmark against a required drive letter Multiple drives can b
34. only information about drive letter assigned the Vendor ID and the Product ID The second tab that is named Virtual CD DVD Properties includes options that affect on the virtual CD drive behavior 3 4 1 1 Mount for this session only If the option was set CD ROM Emulator automatically removes this virtual CD drive at the end of Windows session By default the program creates virtual CD drives for a permanent use 3 4 1 2 Mount drive for this user only If this choice was selected the selected virtual CD drive e is available for the user who creates this drive but not for other users until they create the drive by self e appears in the system only after the user logs on to the system 3 4 1 3 Mount drive for all users at system startup If this choice was selected the selected virtual CD drive e is available for all users until someone removes it e appears in the system after the starting the CD ROM Emulator service Only members of the Administrators user group in Windows can create and remove virtual drives for all users 3 4 1 4 Enable Autorun This option switches ON OFF the Autoplay feature that is supported by Windows If this option was turned ON the system automatically starts playing contents of a virtual CD disc as it is inserted to a virtual CD drive The feature requires rebooting the system in order to come into effect 4 Working with the program The CD ROM Emulator Manager includes following c
35. our_Account 3 On the Registration Screen click the New User Registration link or enter the following address in the Address bar http www freedb org modules php name Y our_Account amp op new_user 4 Fill in the user registration form on this page and press the New User button below this form One of the most important parameters of the registration is the user email FreeDB will send the user password to this address 5 Receive the password to the user account from the FreeDB 6 Run the CD ROM Emulator Manager and enter the FreeDB registration to the FreeDB settings as described in the above sections After completing these actions the CD ROM Emulator can automatically access to the FreeDB database in order to retrieve CD titles 3 4 Virtual CD drive settings x CD D D Device properties X Drive Letter Ge Emulator Mame Paragon Virtual CD DVD SCSI Product ID CD ROM Mount for this session only SCSI vendor ID CD wIP Automaune SCSI Revision 0001 Mount drive For this user only Ce Mount drive For all users at system startup Burning Supported Enable Autorun Cancel Apply Help Cancel Apply Help The CD DVD Device properties dialog allows defining the behavior options for virtual CD drives This dialog is available through the popup menu for virtual CD drives The CD DVD Device properties window contains two tabs The first one named General CD DVD Properties includes
36. ral standard sections purposed for different tasks Main menu Main toolbar Utilities toolbar Outlook like toolbar CD Database Explorer Track Player Status bar PARANT 2 1 1 Main menu The Main menu is located on the top of the main window The Main menu is intended for providing the unified access to all the program s functionality All menu items and provided functionality are described in the chapter named Menus 2 1 2 Main toolbar The Main toolbar is located in the upper part of the main window The Main toolbar is intended for providing the fast access to frequently used operations over workable objects CD and DVD drives CD images etc The contents of the Main toolbar are sensitive to the kind of selected objects Toolbar s buttons become disabled in case of referenced functions are inapplicable to a selected object If the mouse cursor was located over a toolbar s button the Status bar displays a brief prompt about function that is activated by this button Functionality of Main toolbar s buttons Provided Functionality Availability available for Close tray of the CD drive insert disc Only Physical CD DVD drives Insert Open tray of the CD drive eject disc Run the Find Wizard for searching CD images that are not registered in the Collection of CD images Add manually an existing unregistered CD image to the Collection of CD images Delete the selected virtual CD from the Collection of CD
37. rom CD Text and CD Graphics discs In addition most copy protected CDs are not grabbed correctly so that resulting images become unworkable 4 5 4 6 Raw In case of this choice was selected the program tries reading RAW data instead of cooked ones This feature is applicable only to data tracks on CDs This option requires supporting from the hardware side Information on CD ROM and DVD ROM discs consists of two different parts e The first part is usable data such as data files e The second part is servicing data which are purposed for keeping integrity of usable information Usable data are usually named cooked data while the composition of usable and servicing data is named RAW data Servicing data consist of EDC and ECC Error Detection Code and Error Correction Code which take approximately an eighth part of all information This extra information allows detecting read errors and even compensates small scale amounts of corrupted data Generally servicing data must be generated from usable data by the algoristic rules However sometimes it is not the case e g Some copy protection schemes use non standard contents of servicing data CD ROM Emulator is able duplicating correctly such customized servicing data in the CD image The option will be ignored if the CD drive does not support the feature of RAW reading Most of modern CD drives support the RAW read mode For some advanced copy protection schemes this mode i
38. s grabbing CD and DVD discs of the following formats e CD Audio and derived formats such as CD Text CD Graphics e CD ROM CD ROM XA and derived formats such as CD Extra CD 1 Video CD etc e All DVD formats DVD ROM DVD Video DVD Audio The newly created CD images are automatically included to the Collection of CD images CD ROM Emulator allows e Grabbing audio tracks into audio files As aresult grabbed tracks can be played both as isolated audio files and as a part of a virtual Audio CD e Compressing contents of CD images This feature allows making images of smaller size e Splitting CD images into multiple volumes This feature allows getting around file size limitations that exist in FAT16 and FAT32 file systems It can be very usable in case of making images of DVD discs e Saving extra information about the real CD format This feature allows making workable images of various CD and DVD formats including copy protected ones Important This Software is not purposed for the illegal and unauthorized duplication of copyrighted materials Unauthorized duplication of copyrighted material is liable to criminal prosecution If you are not sure of your rights please contact your local legal advisor 4 5 1 Using Grab Wizard Use the Grab Wizard in the following manner L L A a 10 11 12 13 14 15 Insert a physical CD or DVD disc to a physical CD or DVD drive Start the Grab Wizard CD ROM Em
39. s not enough to produce workable images 4 5 4 7 Raw PQ Subchannel If this option was turned ON the program tries reading contents of P and Q subcode channels in addition to RAW data for data and audio tracks The mode of writing RAW data with subchannels is named RAW SUB or RAW 96 This feature requires supporting from the hardware side The underlying format of CD sectors includes special data that are originally named subcode channels Subchannels are enumerated from P to W of totally 8 subcode channels Subchannels take 1 byte per frame which constitute 96 bytes of subchannel data plus 2 bytes of subchannel parity per CD sector The CD specifications from the Red Book declare using P and Q subchannels for servicing purposes e The P subchannel is used for marking start and end of each track e The Q subchannel is used for saving time codes track type track index ISRC and TOC in Lead in area 1 Note that the RAW SUB reading mode is supported by modern CD drives only 4 5 4 8 Raw raw PW Subchannel If this option was turned ON the program tries reading contents of P to W subcode channels in addition to RAW data for data and audio tracks The mode of writing RAW data with subchannels is named RAW SUB or RAW 96 This feature requires supporting from the hardware side The underlying format of CD sectors includes special data that are originally named subcode channels Subchannels are enumerated from P to W
40. sing a virtual CD drive where the selected virtual CD will be inserted If a user selects the special value Any in this list the program will ask the virtual CD drive to be used every time a user presses the hot key Please select a Yirkual drive to insert image to S x Eh The Dark Side OF The Moon _D YIP _O ROM LZ Empty Cancel 3 2 1 3 Comments The Comments textual field allows assigning a popup hint text to the new image This hint appears in case of moving the mouse cursor over the image 3 3 FreeDB settings FreeDB Proxy Settings x Proxy Host Fort 194 of la 082 80 User Mame Password J usatyuk ATA TT The FreeDB Proxy Settings dialog allows tuning settings for the connection to the FreeDB online database The CD ROM Emulator can use these settings when grabbing Audio CDs for downloading CD titles from the FreeDB database This dialog is available through the main menu FreeDB gt Proxy Settings 3 3 1 1 Enable proxy Set this option in order to enable using proxy Proxy servers cache information from the Internet and using of proxy servers can potentially increase the speed of a connection to the Internet 3 3 1 2 Proxy Host Enter the IP address of a used proxy server The IP address is represented as the tetrad of integer numbers each ranged between 0 and 255 This value can be received e From the network administrator of your local network e From the Internet
41. tions Grab Wizard l xX Settings Mode Automatic arab Mode Mixed Mode CD Image Format ama as Emulator Image format Advanced Data compression Mo Compression 1 Full Compression Audio codec Codec Bitrate a ap 160 kbps 44 kHz ste Back Cancel Help 4 5 3 1 Settings Mode This pull down list allows choosing a Grab mode profile Grab mode profiles define globally characteristics of the grabbing module such as e default options and available options 1 e ones that can be changed e default image format and available image formats 1 e ones that can be changed This parameter provides only two alternatives Automatic Automatic profile selection The program automatically detects media type parameters of the disc format and used copy protection Relying on this information the program selects an appropriate Grab mode profile and suggests optimal settings for successful grabbing the used disc Manual Using the manual mode profile The program allows a user arbitrarily changing all possible options choosing all available values for every parameter The program neither controls mutual compatibility of options nor verifies their compatibility with hardware properties and the actual media format 4 5 3 2 Grab Mode This pull down list displays the selected Grab mode profile In the Automatic profile selection mode see Settings Mode this control is disabled its va
42. to type a drive letters from which CD images will be ejected in the parameters section of the command line For example the command line of the ejecting of CD images from virtual drives G and F looks so cddvdman command e GF 5 2 5 Geta virtual CD ROM drive mask To get a virtual CD ROM drive mask you should use the m identifier as a command All commands those are followed this command will be ignored During the command operating the program returns CD ROM drives mask as exit code Drives are encoded according to the following easy rule drive A corresponds to the lowest bit in the exit code drive B to the second one and so on The command line of the getting virtual drives mask looks so cddvdman command m 5 2 6 Grab operations Grab operations 1s more complicated ones There are many parameters which allow to control the grabbing process to 66 99 influence on it To perform any grab operations you should use the g identifier as a command Further the sequence of parameters with their values must follows Parameters must be divided by semicolons So in the general case the command line will have the following view cddvdman command g lt parameter1 gt lt valuel gt The program supports the next parameters please check the Grabbing options and Advanced grabbing options chapters for more information about the meanings of these parameters d CD DVD drive letter f image filename without extens
43. truct Wizard in the following manner 1 Start the Construct Wizard 2 Select required files and or directories on the upper panel and move them to the lower panel by using the drag amp drop technique If required re organize and rename files and directories in the lower panel Select the filename for the new CD image in the field named Image Filename Optionally change the icon for the new image by clicking the pictured button which is named Image Icon Press the button named Construct Image for starting the process of image creation The program will display the progress of the operation at O 4 4 2 Dialog description The Construct Wizard s dialog contains two panels 4 4 2 1 Upper panel The upper panel displays contents of local and network drives available in the system Files and directories are displayed as the tree list A user can expand tree nodes and select multiple files and directories 4 4 2 2 Lower panel The lower panel displays future contents of a CD image being under construction A user should drag and drop selected files directories to the lower panel In this panel files and directories are displayed as the tree list too A user can re organize files arbitrarily rename files and directories or delete them 4 4 2 3 Image Icon Press this button in order to change an icon assigned to a newly created image The program allows only loading icons from ICO files 4 4 2 4 Image Filename
44. ulator provides multiple grab settings so that the Grab Wizard consists of multiple screens On the first screen of the Grab Wizard select the drive to be used for grabbing in the Source drive pull down list The program will automatically detect the type of the inserted disc and its characteristics On the second screen select parameters of the grabbing most important of them are noted below Choose the image type to be created in the Image Format pull down list Select the data compression level by moving the Data compression slider control This feature is available only in images of CDI format For audio tracks choose an audio codec which should be used for converting audio tracks into audio files For a chosen audio codec select the bit rate parameter This parameter affects on the final image size and audio quality Additionally you can change some advanced options which allow controlling a behavior of the grabber module On the third screen select audio and data tracks to be included to the newly created image This feature is not available for CloneCD images In addition audio tracks can be played in the Grab Wizard for reviewing purposes On the fourth screen define the image location see below Enter the full path and filename of the new image in the Image File field Change the Image Label in the appropriate field Define the maximum size of volumes of the CD image in the Image Split Size spinner
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