Utilities for reading and converting .mds/.mdf disk image files
This tool converts .mdf/.mds files into .iso or .cue/.bin files. I wrote this
since I found that mdf2iso was creating bad images for some discs that I
tried, and the iso file format cannot handle multi-track images at all.
This program reads from .mds files, which are binary metadata files that
describe the contents of their accompanying .mdf files. This is in contrast to
mdf2iso, which attempts to parse the type of disc image out of the mdf data
file itself. That said, you will need the .mds metadata file to use this
program.
If you want to compile from source, use cargo build and the standard
toolchain.
Pre-built binaries are available on the releases page.
Run mds info <my_file.mds> to view the contents of an mdf image
# mds info my_file.mds
/home/sam/my_file.mds
MDS v1.3 | CD-ROM, 574 bytes, 1 session, 2 tracks
Session 1
First sector: -150 (0xFFFFFF6A)
Last sector: 294066 (0x47CB2)
Total sectors: 294216 (0x47D48)
Track 1
Mode: Mode2
Subchannels: Eight
Data file: /home/sam/my_file.mdf
Time offset: 00:02.000
First byte: 0 (0x0)
First sector: 0 (0x0)
Sectors: 278166 (0x43E96)
Sector size: 2448 (0x990)
Approx Size: 680MB
Track 2
Mode: Audio
Subchannels: Eight
Data file: /home/sam/my_file.mdf
Time offset: 61:52.916
First byte: 680950368 (0x28967A60)
First sector: 278316 (0x43F2C)
Sectors: 15750 (0x3D86)
Sector size: 2448 (0x990)
Approx Size: 38MB
Run mds convert --format iso <my_image.mds> to convert the contents of an mdf to an iso
file. Note that iso files can only contain one track, so if you have a
multi-track mdf you'll need to convert to a different format.
Run mds convert --format cue <my_image.mds> to convert the contents of an mdf to bin
and cue files. This format does support multiple tracks.