ISO Jukebox

dazzerd · 20 Jan 2011 at 16:45

Not sure if this should go in the Windows section or not but it seems to straddle both.

I have most of my music encoded in lossless .wma. However I would like to "archive" them as .iso. It's easy enough making the archive and playing them back indidually. I'm just wondering if there is any software that will play them back automatically (automount them) and include track info, album art etc.

In short I want wmp (or equivelant) to be able to recognize .iso in its library.

cheers

a1ex2001 · 21 Jan 2011 at 11:09

I'm not aware of any software that will allow you to do this with Music CD's but I am curious as to what you think you will gain by doing this as opposed to your current lossless WMA setup.

dazzerd · 23 Jan 2011 at 12:37

Thanks for the reply. I don't expect to gain much if any benefit but just think it's a more novel solution and am surprised such an option doesn't exist.

Audigex · 23 Jan 2011 at 16:33

Does VLC player not play ISOs natively? I've never tried it, but I know that if I rip the .iso to a folder on a disk (ie DVD) then I can just play the folder. If not, your second most elegant solution might be to just rip the contents without decoding. It won't be a .iso, but it will be the same content as was on the disk.

dazzerd · 23 Jan 2011 at 23:01

I think it does yes will have to check.

Guess I'm stumped though for a real iso jukebox.

wonko · 24 Jan 2011 at 10:46

I've never heard of audio cds being stored as iso files, and am not sure it's possible due to the format of the disks. More common for archiving would be using flac with cue files.

Meatball · 24 Jan 2011 at 13:30

OP you're much better off ripping all your CDs into a losless format. Since you want a jukebox I would recommend using iTunes as you can then use Coverflow which looks great! Great quality album artwork can be sourced via iTunes or www.albumartexchange.com . The ISO method just won't work and there are so many better ways if achieving what you want!

See here: http://ipodiphoneitunestutorials.com/iTunesTutorials/iTunesViewsListAlbumGridCoverFlow.php