How to make an audio CD for a(n emulated) Playstation? [closed]

Question

I can't manage to burn a working audio CD-R for my (both emulated and non-emulated) PlayStation.

I'd like to get instructions on how to do it in a GNU/Linux environment (also without using a real CD-R), if possible.

Answer 1

One-step procedure (command line)

Since no tool to do what I'm asking (audio cdr in .bin + .cue format from input media source) seemed to exist I have written one myself, mkaudiocdrimg(AUR).

$ mkaudiocdrimg songA.mp3 songB.mp3 --image-name track_collection1

Also as a Python module it can be easily used by other applications as a library.

Multi-step manual graphical procedure

• Create an audio cdrom image.bin/image.cue pair using brasero;

• replace the MOTOROLA value with BINARY in the FILE cue command in image.cue.

The reason you need to do this is because duckstation-qt (pcsxr is not even able to load anything different than a videogame image) only supports BINARY as value for FILE and brasero only produces big-endian images, so without passing for a sound ripper such as sound-juicer you will get distorted audio when playing the image in the emulator. More in general, valid values for FILE command should be these listed here.

So now

• mount image.cue using cdemu:

    $ cdemu load 0 image.cue

• write the virtual CDROM to image2.bin/image2.cue using the "duplicate" function of sound-juicer; be sure to select "Cue image" as file format.

• Finally,

• if you're using an emulator, just load image2.cue as the disc file;

• if you're using a real playstation, burn image2.cue at slowest speed on a cdrom.

I can confirm the same procedure works for CDRoms to be played on Kronos emulator or on a real Sega Saturn.

References

Helpful resources in writing the program:

• this Arch forums thread;
• audio streaming - How do I change the bit depth in FFmpeg? - Super User;
• Command Line Arguments · stenzek/duckstation Wiki.