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Don’t you hate it when someone posts a rare source of a Nirvana show but not in the standard FLAC or SHN formats. Instead it was posted in BIN/CUE format which is intended to be burned straight to a CD. Now since I am just going to listen to it through the computer anyway and I have many, many gigabytes of hard drive space I wanted to either find something to play the file or extract the info. I ventured on over to DVDRhelp because it is one of the greatest websites ever. Seriously, if you are into digital video, video formats, burning things (on media that is), or anything with DVDs, VCDs, and the like, you MUST look through the site. It tells you how to do everything. OK, continuing, I found a few programs that would do what I wanted. I downloaded one I had heard of before: ISObuster. The free functions did all I needed it to do. I opened the CUE sheet and it knew what the burned CD would look like and I was able to extract WAV files from the disc image. I was then able to easily encode them into my favorite lossless audio format, FLAC, with the easy and powerful FLAC frontend GUI. Now I can smile as I listen to a previously uncirculating source of Nirvana’s 1992 Reading Festival show. This was the crowning accomplishment of my day.

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