Convert .bin/.cue to .iso on Mac OSX
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NOTE: This is not a Universal Binary, It was built for Intel Macs.
While setting up a new VMWare image I found myself needing to convert an old .bin/.cue disk backup to iso format. Looking for a simple command line utility I came across BinChunker, a GPL-licensed *nix source that fit the bill to the tee. The official site has the source code and RedHat RPM’s but nothing for OS X.
A quick compile took care of that — BinChunker for OS X.
Download the utility, extract it to your Home directory and issue the following command from a shell prompt:
sudo cp bchunk /usr/bin/
To make sure your newly installed utility has the correct execute permissions and that its accessible to you through the terminal, run this code:
sudo chmod a+x /usr/bin/bchunk
To convert a .bin/.cue pair to a .iso, you can issue this command:
bchunk myinputfile.bin myinputfile.cue myoutputfile
If you are getting a not found error, make sure that /usr/bin/ is in your path. To check this, type echo $PATH and look for /usr/bin/ in the result. If it isn’t there, type sudo nano /etc/profile and add /usr/bin; to the PATH=… line. Then press CTRL+x followed by Y to confirm and the enter key to verify the filename to save and exit nano. Then execute source /etc/profile to refresh the path.
For those of you who have a .bin file but instead of a .cue file have a .toc file, there is a utility for mac called toc2cue that you can get if you run macports and install the cdrdao port. Then you can convert over to .cue file and use this fine tool to convert your .bin file to .iso
i found errors with said binary, and learned that bchunk is also available from mac ports (or darwin ports for the old school) which works fine
This is awesome! I had a couple of old .BIN/.CUE files, and am delighted to have them natively on disk now, instead of having to mess around with VLC – now I should be able to watch them in my DVD player?
Fran
Thanks for the Howto. And yes there’s bchunk in mac ports
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Thanks a lot! A quick and easy solution.
Worked great. Thanks alot!
Hi,
I tried this using the BinChunker linked here but I keep getting a “cannot execute binary file” error. Any idea why? Is it possible this is configured for a different version of OSX? I’m running Tiger (10.4.10) on an old Powerbook G4 (PowerPC). Any advice you might have would be much appreciated.
Oh, I also tried installing MacPorts and doing it that way, but the install failed when it couldn’t find “make”, which was odd.
@ Tony
The build of this code was done on 10.4.x on a 1st generation MacBook Pro (Intel). I did not make a Universal binary as I don’t have a PowerPC Mac. By the error message your getting I would think that is where the problem is. The MacPorts version should work for you if you can get it running.
As for not finding “make”. If the error your receiving looks something like this”/bin/bash: line 1: make: command not found”. This error is returned because the “make” utility is not installed on your Mac OS X machine. To install the “make” utility, download the Xcode software package from Apple.
Xcode can be downloaded from the following URL:
http://developer.apple.com/tools/download/
Use toast titanium, throw .cue file onto it and write the disk. It will extract the .bin file and produce a disk with all the original folders, files etc…real easy solution, try it:)
You can also download a GUI for BinChunker here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27240/bchunkerfe . Worked flawlessly, thanks!
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Since I didn’t want to buy (or steal, before you mention it) Toast, I was happy to find bchunk. Screw T-REV.
KILLER! wow.
Amazing. Thank you so much, it’s nice to see there are still people out there who believe in FOSS for the Mac.
Thanks! Works without a problem on 10.5.6. You also don’t have to put it in /usr/bin – just executing it with “./bchunk foo.bin foo.cue foo.out” from the Downloads folder was sufficient.
perfect!!!!
right now i’m installing a game in ISO!!!! not in bin/cue =D
Thank youuu!
thanks for posting this; it really helped me.
Awesome – thanks heaps. This was the solution to a 2-day long problem!
Thanks this was the most helpful thing I have stumble across in weeks!
It worked! Thank you very much for sharing!!!
Many thanks! Got me out of a hole.
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Super Puper!! Works fast and great, nice job!
Awesome tool. Excellent job
Why do my files get named .ugh? I rename them to .iso but they don’t open. OS 10.5.8
Tracks with unrecognized mode/block size are saved with extension ‘.ugh’. Although these files are not exactly .iso compatible files I have found that the can still be burned/mounted using Toast.
Thanks a lot, it worked perfect
Exelent!!! Great Aport! Thank!!!
‘.ugh’ – best file extension ever
Thanks for making a native binary for binchunker, worked a treat for me.
Kind regards,
Gareth
Hi all,
I’ve had a strange issue that I can’t seem to find any info in all my searching on the net, in forums and blogs.
Many rare albums I have discovered, when assembled with Unrar, give me a .cue file and a FLAC file (or a .cue file and a .wav file for a DTS track), but no .bin file anywhere. In fact, I have yet to come across one package that included a bin file. Yet without this elusive bin file I’m unable to use the .cue file in Toast. Am I missing something here? Is the .bin file something that’s normally included? Is it something I have to create? How does one make a .bin file out of the included FLAC or WAV audio files?
So confused.
paz
Wow… Its a great utility… Thanks!!!
so cool!!! I have been looking for a long time and this works perfectly. thank you very much!!! it is great!!
fabienne
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Just didi this on Snow Leopard and it worked as charm on some standard .bin .cue files.
Thank you very much
Thanks worked great.