CDR/RW Creator Wizard 1.0.0 - 20011118 (C) Rocco Foti 1999-2001 http://www.quasarbbs.net/rocco This is a BETA version (stable I believe) N.B. --> USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. <-- N.B. ------------------------------------------ Index 1 - PURPOSE 2 - CHANGES 3 - PREREQUISITE FOR CDR/RW WIZARD 4 - PREREQUISITE FOR BOOTWIZARD 5 - INFO 6 - NEXT FEATURES 7 - BUGS 8 - SUGGESTIONS 9 - THANKS 10 - LICENSE 11 - MONEY IS WELCOMED 1 - PURPOSE: Creation of DataCD/AudioCD/BootableCD. These is a multithreading frontend to cdrecord/2 - mkisofs/2 for creating Audio and Data-CDs. At startup you can choose: - DataCD (also bootable) - AudioCD - CopyCD 2 - CHANGES: 1.0.0 build 20011118 beta 3 - NEW! Added CD Audio play cababilities before grabbing process (added volume button, other changes). - NEW! Best device name showing (in Device Capabilities and Device Driver dialogs). - FIXED! Changed tracks size, in dao mode, calculation. - FIXED! In dialog (Grabber options page) error when reading ini file cdrom info. - cosmetic modifications - some minor bugs fixed 1.0.0 build 20011107 beta 2 - NEW! Added CD Audio play cababilities before grabbing it. - FIXED! Now Next/Previous etc buttons to manage MP3 files are OK! - tested with new cdrecord/2 version under eComStation. - cosmetic modifications - some minor bugs fixed 1.0.0 build 20010919 beta 1 - FIXED! Start error ------> PLEASE: TO TOTALLY FIX the bug you MUST: Before execute new CDR/RW Wizard application - Open your CDRWIZ.INI file with an INI editor (in the CDR/RW Wizard directory); - Delete the CDRDAO item; - Close the CDRWIZ.INI file; - Start CDR/RW Wizard, go to the dialog and then setup CDRDAO/2 info; - Press button. - cosmetic modifications - some minor bugs fixed 1.0.0 build 20010915 beta 1 - NEW! Now CDR/RW Wizard writes WAV files one a time. - NEW! AudioCD on the fly copy is now possible. - NEW! Added support for CDRDAO/2 package (only AUDIO for now!) - PLEASE, REPORT ME BUGS! - NEW! In AudioCD screen before launching OS/2 CD player CDR/RW Wizard now checks the CD type inserted into the reader - NEW! Incorporated bitmaps in CDR/RW executable (executable bigger than before, program a bit speeder) - FIXED! In AudioCD (MP3 tracks) screen pressing MP3->Wav button the program show the message -> "MP3 to Wave conversion stopped!". - FIXED! In AudioCD screen selecting MP3 files the program exit. - FIXED! In CopyCD screen CDR/RW Wizard exit with an error in MostraCapienzaCDVergine routine. Thanks to jheifetz@ualberta.net who discovered this bug! - FIXED! When you play an MP3 file, at the end the button don't return to play (using Z!) - UPDATED! Now CDR/RW Wizard comes with MP3Info 0.8.2 by Cedric Tefft - cosmetic modifications - some minor bugs fixed 0.9.99 beta 05192001 build - FIXED! In AudioCD screen after you encode in MP3 an Audio CD CDR/RW Wizard exit with an error. - some minor bugs fixed 0.9.99 beta 05182001 build - Tested with new CDRecord/2 v.1.10a19 on a Warp4 + FP15 system. - NEW! Created new AudioCD Options Screen 2/2 (only for MP3 files!) - NEW! Internal FileManager and Internal Tools open animated - NEW! You can now (from the new AudioCD Options Screen 2/2) change the mask to select MP3 group files (i.e. MA*.MP3, G*A.MP3, *S.MP3, etc.) - FIXED! In DataCD screen 1/3, if you press CDR Toc button the program exit. - FIXED! In AudioCD screen if you press DAO mode CDR/RW Wizard exit with an error. - some minor bugs fixed 0.9.98 beta 20010407 build - Tested with new CDRecord/2 v.1.10a18 on a Warp4 + FP15 system. - FIXED! In DataCD screen 1/3, if you press CDR Toc button the program exit. - some minor bugs fixed - other minor changes 0.9.98 beta - Tested with new CDRecord/2 v.1.10a15 and new Mkisofs v.1.14a04 on a Warp4 + FP15 system. - NEW! You can now change writing speed just a moment before writing. (in Write screen) - NEW! Burning MP3 tracks, CDR/RW Wizard show the needed space as they was WAV files (considering MP3 bitRate). (in Write screen) - NEW! Burning MP3 tracks, CDR/RW Wizard show the total time tracks. (in Write screen) - NEW! You can now encode Audio CD tracks directly in MP3 files, avoiding you to create before WAV files (grabbing process) and then encode them to MP3 (encoding process). This will be possible using Gogo v.2.36 package (included with CDR/RW Wizard 0.9.9x). See the readme_e.txt file, that come with Gogo package, for more details. - NEW! In AudioCD options screen you can now open directly system Compact Disk player. - NEW! In CopyCD options screen now you can change Mkisofs options. - NEW! In CopyCD options screen CDR/RW Wizard now checks if you entered a backslash at the end of the 'WAV files path' and 'Image file path' fields. Thanks to Chris Hellwig! In DataCD options screen (2/3) CDR/RW Wizard checks if you entered a backslash at the end of the 'Folder where save image file' field. Thanks to Chris Hellwig! - FIXED! In the internal CDR Tools if you press the CD Toc button the program exit. - FIXED! In DataCD screen 2/3, if you type a character more than one the program traps. - FIXED! Check boxes 'Fix CD after write' in Write! screen and Copy! screen cause CDR/RW Wizard error. - FIXED! Try to copying the OS/2 boot partition CDR/RW Wizard not autofill the 'Directpry/Drive to copy' combobox with the Os/2 boot drive, in DataCD Options screen. - some minor bugs fixed - other minor changes 0.9.97 beta - No public beta released! 0.9.96 beta - NEW! Cover CD creation is now possible. CDR/RW Wizard use the REXX script files (used by TrueSpectra Photo>Grapics) coming with Audio-CD-Creator v.0.42. This script files are a my modified version!!! (2nd version) - NEW! Now CDR/RW Wizard monitors CDR/RW size before start write process. - NEW! Media info now added ( button). - some minor bugs fixed - other minor changes 0.9.95 beta - NEW! Cover CD creation is now possible. CDR/RW Wizard use the REXX script files (used by TrueSpectra Photo>Grapics) coming with Audio-CD-Creator v.0.42. This script files are a my modified version!!! (not the final version) - FIXED! In AudioCD Options screen clicking on DAO mode checkbox cause CDR/RW Wizard to abnornal exit. Thanks to Christoph Vogt for this bug report. - some minor bugs fixed - other minor changes 0.9.94 beta - NEW! New mode to show CDR/RW toc - NEW! Show more info before start write process. - NEW! CDR/RW Wizard now knows if the media inserted in your writer is a CD-R or a CD-RW and change the speed accordingly. - FIXED! CDR/RW now check Mkisofs prior the use of '-graft-points'. This option will be used only from 1.14a04 version on. Thanks to Christoph Vogt for bug report. - FIXED! After writing a DataCD CDR/RW Wizard report an error also if the writing process ended without errors. - some minor bugs fixed - other minor changes 0.9.93 beta - Tested with new CDRecord/2 v.1.10a04 and new Mkisofs v.1.14a04 on a Warp4 + FP14 system. - NEW! Support for MP3INFO to get more MP3 files information. (included in CDR/RW Wizard package!) - NEW! If an error occur in read or write process CDR/RW Wizard now show the string passed to MKSIOFS or CDRECORD/2. This string is to be send, via e-mail, to address: roccofoti@tiscalinet.it. - NEW! Support for MP3 player Z! - NEW! With Z! and CDR/RW Wizard you can now convert MP3 files to WAV files. Not only but, with Z!, you can, at the same time, play an MP3 file while converting another or the same MP3 file. - FIXED! In some cases CDR/RW Wizard don't pass to mpg123 the right device ID. - FIXED! Error in Preferences... dialog, the first time you use CDR/RW Wizard: you cannot choose cdda2wav.exe. - FIXED! In 'Write CD...' screen, if the writing time is less then 10 minutes and you select 'Fix CD after write' checkbox CDR/RW show the ZERO. (example: before check 'Fix...': 09:23, after check 'Fix...' 012:23). - CHANGED! When you choose tracktype mode2 or XA1 or XA2 or CD-I, CDR/RW Wizard select automatically Multisession radio button and grays singlesession radio button (as say Paul Floyd mode2, XA1 are synonymous with multisession). --> THANKS to Paul Floyd for this suggestion! - some minor bugs fixed - other minor changes 0.9.92 beta - FIXED! In Preferences... dialog (BootOS2 page) CDR/RW Wizard now verify that you didn't choosed, for the OS2 temporary installation, the partition wich contains the standard OS/2 installation. - bugs fixed in BootWizard. Now at version 1.0.1 - other minor changes 0.9.91 (beta 17) - NEW! Added boot support with BootWizard 1.0.0 (WPS boot in VGA mode!) - NEW! Added an internal CDR tools (a la CDRTools that comes with CDRecord/2). You can switch among one or other cdrtools type. - NEW! Added Sanyo BURN-Proof support (now CDRecord/2 1.9a02 support it) - NEW! When you modify settings in 'Preferences...' dialog, CDR/RW Wizard makes this informations soon avaliable. - NEW! The first time you run CDR/RW Wizard (no INI file is present), it show the 'Preferences...' dialog. - FIXED! In Encoder Options in Preferences dialog error occur when save to INI file (only the first time you install CDR/RW Wizard (Thanks to Cornelis van Bemmel for bug report!!!) - FIXED! Device Capabilities dialog now show correctly read/write speed >= 10x. - Added capability in Options DataCD 2/2 screen: in 'Image file' field you can now drag'n'drop also other *.RAW file (i.e. PIPPO.RAW) - Tested with new CDRecord/2 v.1.9a02 and new Mkisofs v.1.13a01. - bugs fixed - other minor changes 0.9.9 beta 16 - NEW! Added boot support with BootWizard 0.0.1 (only TEXT boot for now!) - bugs fixed - other minor changes 0.99 beta 15 - NEW! Added audio support (you can disable it!). You can now associate audio file to CDR/RW Wizard events! - NEW! Added MP3 navigation buttons in 'AudioCD Options' screen. - Now you can play and write MP3 files whose name are stored with spaces. (i.e.: Bella Ciao.mp3) - Corrected 'Browse...' buttons behavior. When you choose a directory (you can also use drag'n'drop!) in 'Preferences...' screen now opens the CDR/RW Wizard file browser. - Now you can choose write speed up to 24x. (Please use the max speed declared by your CDR/RW manifacturer!!!!) - Corrected ERROR: pressing 'Abort' button during grabbing process (CopyCD screen) don't stop write process. - Tested and now is ok: audioCD copy (single and multiple). - Corrected ERROR: the first time you execute CDR/RW Wizard (NO INI FILE YET!) now you are able to press 'Get SCSI bus' button in CDRecord/2 options page and save settings. (THANKS to Juergen Baer - email: j.baer@coburg.baynet.de for this bug discovery) - minor bugs fixed - other minor changes 0.99 beta 14 - Added SYSTEM INFO dialog. This dialog shows OS version and drives info. This dialog is showed pressing 'System info...' button, in the About dialog. - Added DEVICE CABAPBILITIES dialog. This dialog shows all CD-R or CD-RW informations in a more user-friendly mode than CDRecord/2. This dialog is showed pressing 'CDR Capab' button. - Added DRIVER INFO dialog. This dialog shows CD-R/RW driver informations in a more user-friendly mode than CDRecord/2. This dialog is showed pressing 'CDR Check' button. - Now 'SCSI Scan' button shows the SCSI devices list. - Corrected ERROR: pressing 'Get SCSI bus' button in CDRecord/2 options page CDR/RW Wizard didn't change the device number. - Corrected ERROR: pressing 'Get files to copy...' in 'DataCD Options 2/2' screen CDR/RW Wizard hangs because an error occurres in the internal File Browser. - In 'Options CopyCD' screen if an image file is found into the destination directory, its name will be showed in bold font and in red colour and the hint text inform you that an image file was found. - minor bugs fixed - other minor changes 0.99 beta 13 - Corrected error: when pressing 'Get SCSI bus' button in CDRecord/2 options page CDR/RW Wizard didn't change the device number. - NEW! Support of more than one CD copy. (UP TO 20!) - ONLY DURING CD COPY. - Corrected error in 'Options DataCD 1/2': now CDR/RW Wizard, when you press the 'Get info CD' button, return the right numbers needed for sessions over the first. - In 'Options DataCD 2/2' screen if an image file is found into the destination directory, its name will be showed in bold font and in red colour and the hint text inform you that an image file was found: If you don't change the image file name, that will be used to create a DataCD; if you change the name, the old file will be left and a new one will be created. - minor bugs fixed - other minor changes 0.99 beta 12 - Corrected error during copy on-the-fly. CDR/RW calculated a wrong estimated time. - Added support for CDDA2WAV grabber (come with CDRecord/2). It uses SCSI devices (as CDRecord/2 does), but thanks to Daniela's DANIATAPI.FLT I grabbed a CD using my ATAPI CDROM (40x). - When you press, in 'Options AudioCD' screen, 'Grab! button and CDROM is not inserted CDR/RW report a wrong CDROM letter, now corrected. - When you open, in 'Options AudioCD' screen, MP3 folder with the button 'Open dir' and you add or delete MP3 files CDR/RW Wizard can refresh MP3 list automatically when you close MP3 folder. - Added more info in grabber and encoder dialog-boxes. - The ENCODERS SUPPORTED: Lame (not so good quality!), BladeEnc (good quality!) - fully tested, Xing toMPG (sometimes don't start process - so don't use it. I'll search for this problem solution), - Tested with OS/2 Warp 4 FP13 -> OK - Tested with Cdrecord 1.8.1a05 -> OK - minor bugs fixed - other minor changes 0.99 beta 11 - The package now support installation program WarpIN (THE OS/2 INSTALLATION PROGRAM by Netlabs), and it is distribuited as autoinstallation file (CDRWIZ.WPI). - Now in the 'AudioCD Options' screen when you press 'Grab!' button, the grabber starts and verify that a CD is inserted in the CD-ROM drive. - Using the integrated 'File browser' when you change drive CDRWizard don't find CDRWIZ.INI anymore. CORRECTED! - Started CDR/R Creator Wizard help compilation. - Added help support - Tested with Cdrecord 1.8.1a05 - other minor changes 0.99 beta 10 - In the 'DataCD Options' screen in the 'Directory/drive to copy' field you can drop all dir you want. This field is now a dropdown box. You can also clear it. - The FIRST DIR (if, and onlu if, more than one is dropped) you drop in the 'Directory/drive to copy' field can be writed as subdir and all his files saved inside it. Otherwise, when you write the CD, all files inside the FIRST DIR will be written in the root dir. ALL THE DIRS other than first, will be treated as SUBDIR. To verify the result, after the image creation you can use the 'Image maintenance utilities' and in particular ISOINFO (List [ls -lR] command). - For each field containing dir information now is present a button ('Open dir') that open correspondent folder to help you verify its contents. It is also present, in DataCD Options 2/3 screen, the Drives icon to open 'Drives' object. - Drag'n'drop is possible both CDRW Creator Wizard and WPS folders. - other minor changes 0.99 beta 9 - New support for MP3 audio file. Now you can use MP3 files to create Audio-CDs (using MPG123 that come with Audio_CD_Creator). You can also use MP3 audio files downloaded from Internet without need to encode WAV files. - Now you can create directly from CDRW Creator Wizard MP3 files from WAV files. The encoders supported are: Lame (fully tested!), Xing toMPG (Win32 version ported with the old project WIN32-OS/2), BladeEnc, L3enc. - Some operations now can be performed using drag'n'drop (typically you can drag'n'drop directories!) - You can play MP3 before write them (in the screen 'AudioCD Options') - other minor changes 0.99 beta 8.1 - Service release: corrected some syntax errors. That did not let you to launch neither MKISOFS nor CDRECORD2 - Initiate MP3 support (NOT YET ACTIVE!!!) - Now you can drag filenames and/or directories 0.99 beta 8 - Now you can copy an OS/2 boot partition and CDRW Creator Wizard can set properly options - You can explicitly exclude file/s from copy - Revisited SCSI scan operation - Now CDRW Creator Wizard can set automatically grabber options to grab all tracks in a AudioCD (even if you can modify them) - Leech and Alfons supported! - The program now save, in the INI file, only options that really changed - Write bar and time progress now stops when write process ends - Corrected 'Dummy option'/'Fix CD after write' options error (before clicking 'Dummy option' twice it will call 'Fix CD after write' procedure - other minor changes 0.99 beta 7 - Now CDRWizard show images correctly (excuse for this error!) - It's now possible to abort read process - other minor changes 0.99 beta 6 - Corrected mkisofs error (due to a syntax error!!!): 'Mkisofs ended with errors. RC=2' - Now is possible to choose the fifo cache size (in the 'Preferences...' notebook) - I now included all images (the zip file is bigger than before!!) - CDR/RW info buttons (in Options DataCD and Options AudioCD screens) now show information not in the VX-REXX Console but in a separate window - other minor changes 0.99 beta 5 - Copy CD on the fly enabled and OK! - Added CD info options page in 'Preferences...' for mkisofs - Added Maintenance Procedures page in 'Preferences...' for cdrecord2 utilities (DEVDUMP, ISOINFO, etc...) - Added support for cdrecord2 utilities (DEVDUMP, ISOINFO, etc...) (FOR EXPERIMENTAL USE ONLY) - Support for new versions of mkisofs-1.12b5 (7Jan2000) and cdrecord2-V1.8a40 - Aesthetical GUI changes - other minor changes 0.99 beta 4 - Fixed multisession CD creation - Copy CD on the fly enabled (NOT YET TESTED!!!) - Now CDRW search in SCSI chain is OK! (After Daniela Engert IDE driver) changes - other minor changes 0.99 beta 3 - Sometimes CDR/RW Creator Wizard shows hided windows: CORRECTED! - In 'Preferences' dialog box now, if you don't change nothing and press 'Cancel' button, don't appear the warning dialog box - other minor changes 0.99 beta 2 - Calcule of the remain write time instead write time (in both WriteCD and CopyCD mode) - Eliminaded dialog box information before Read and before Write - other minor changes 0.99 beta 1 - First public release 3 - PREREQUISITE FOR CDR/RW WIZARD: To use CDR/RW Creator you must have: - Warp 3 or 4 (tested only on Warp 4!!!) - VROBJ.DLL (on my site! -> http://forosoftware.freeweb.org or http://www.quasarbbs.com/rocco) - EMX runtime library v.0.9d fix 2 or later (ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/gnu/emx+gcc/emxrt.zip) - The OS/2 ASPI-Router ASPIROUT.SYS. (ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/drivers/misc/aspir101.zip) - a Grabber (like LEECH or ALFONS to extract audio tracks) SUPPORTED (one of): LEECH (http://www.sprog.auc.dk/~motr96) as his INF file reports. ALFONS (http://www.algonet.se/~mikkje/alfons.html) as his readme file reports. CDDA2WAV (in the CDRecord/2 package) - CDRecord/2 and MkisoFs/2 (in the same package) (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/cdrecord/cdrecordmain.htm) - A program to raise Mkisofs priority when piping to cdrecord2 (during ONTHEFLY copy): SPE (ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/systools/spe.zip) NICE (ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/systools/nice.zip) - DEVDUMP, ISODUMP, ISOINFO, ISOVFY (in the CDRecord/2 package) - CDRTools executable V1.02 (supports some common tasks like TOC reading or CD-blanking) (comes with the Audio_CD_Creator package) - An MP3 file encoder SUPPORTED (one of): Lame (http://www.sulaco.org/mp3) or Xing toMPG (http://www.kiss.uni-lj.si/~k4fe0470/tompg.zip) (ATTENTION: PROBLEM WITH THIS!!!! Don't use it for a while) or BladeEnc (http://bladeenc.mp3.no) - GOGO encoder by v.2.36 on used by CDR/RW Wizard to extract CD audio tracks directly in MP3 tracks (comes with CDR/RW Wizard package) - MPG123 (to create AudioCD using MP3 audio files) (comes with the Audio_CD_Creator package) - TRUESPECTRA Photo>Graphics (I don't know if you find it anymore!) I have a free copy, regularly registered to activate the print funtion, but don't know if it's freely distribuited! 4 - PREREQUISITE FOR BOOTWIZARD: Thanks to Chris Wohlgemuth and his - IBM BootOS2. Download it at: www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/systools/ - LXLite 1.2.1. Download it at: www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/systools/ - CDBOOT.FLT. In the package ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/systools/cdboot.zip - VFDisk for 2.88 drive. Download it at: www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/systools/ - IMAGE.EXE. In the OS/2 Warp4 installation CD (DISKIMGS directory). N.B. To make an WPS boot CD you must have a partition in which install, using BootOS2, a temporary OS2 boot installation (ca. 19MB free reported by Chris Wohlgemuth) 5 - INFO: - Reading Slider bar is merely folkloric: it increments by 3 steps and at the end changes its colour (Blue, Green and Red). This because I don't know how redirect mkisofs output to catch program percentage. (mkisofs writes both error and output to stderr) If someone can help me I'll very glad! - Each window control is documentated with short tips in the window's status bar. - The MP3 file (MCR.mp3) used as test in Preferences dialog belongs to MODENA CITY RAMBLESRS (a wonderful Italian group!) 6 - NEXT FEATURES: NEXT FEATURES: NEXT FEATURES: NEXT FEATURES: NEXT FEATURES: NEXT FEATURES: NEXT FEATURES: NEXT FEATURES: - Help file -> (IN PROGRESS!) 7 - BUGS: - Much less than before, I hope -> Please report me when you find one! 8 - SUGGESTIONS WELCOMED AT THE ADDRESS: -roccofoti@tiscalinet.it-, if I'm able to satisfy your wishes. IF YOU FIND OTHER BUGS PLEASE SEND ME AN E-MAIL AT THE ADDRESS: -roccofoti@tiscalinet.it- Visit my homepage: (http://forosoftware.freeweb.org or http://www.quasarbbs.org/rocco) to download new CDR/RW Creator Wizard release. 9 - THANKS Thanks to all of you that use CDRW Creator Wizard, also if you found some, too much perhaps, bugs!!! I hope that with your help I can produce an useful OS/2 burning utility. >>>>>>>>>>> EXCUSE for MY BAD ENGLISH <<<<<<<<<<<<< 10 - LICENSE: This package is provided 'as is' under the Gnu public Licence (GPL). PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11 - DUE TO MY EFFORCE TO DEVELOPING THIS SOFTWARE, MONEY IS WELCOMED. You can send money at my account: ACCOUNT no.: 800034 SWIFT ADDRESS: IBSPITTM502 BANK: SANPAOLO IMI Spa - TORINO BRANCH no.: 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE Please send also your name and (IMPORTANT) e-mail address. For those who send me money I will send the complete help file (both in HTML and INF format). 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