22nd May 2007

HowTo convert bin/cue to iso in Mac OS X

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Since Parallels doesn’t like .bin/.cue images, i had to convert it into an .iso image. A few guides pointed out that simple renaming of the files might be enough, but that didn’t work at all. So i was searching for free-ware solutions and couldn’t find anything. Toast Titanium was the last chance.

You simply right click on the .bin file and open it with Toast. Next you click “Save As Disc Image”.

Finally you just rename the file extension from the default .toast to .iso.

After a minute Toast was ready and i was able to boot from the .iso image in Parallels. Worked for me.

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  1. 1 On April 11th, 2008, Max said: [Quote]

    Your post is the top result on Google for this problem!

    I’ve found a freeware solution, using the open source software “binchunker”. It is available on Macports. Use the terminal to run these commands:

    sudo port install bchunk
    bchunk IMAGE.bin IMAGE.cue OUTPUTIMAGE.iso

    Quick and easy!

  2. 2 On May 7th, 2008, Mike said: [Quote]

    Awesome, binchunker worked well. Remember people, you have to install macports first, but since I had it already installed, this took me 30 seconds max

  3. 3 On July 10th, 2008, Angry and Confused said: [Quote]

    Anything Not INTEL Required?

  4. 4 On August 8th, 2008, prelude said: [Quote]

    bchunck should work on ppc as well. Macports will take care of the compile shit for you so… ;) Just give it a go.

  5. 5 On August 26th, 2008, Vincent said: [Quote]

    Thanks for showing an easy way to convert those bin files to Iso. In fact, I had to follow EXACTLY the procedure explained. If I dragged the bin or cue to the toast screen, it didn’t work. As well, I did not need to rename to iso. Toast mounted the image as a Cd that I could read perfectly.
    Thank you very much.
    PS. I tried Bchunker FE, an GUI version of Bchunker with ZERO succes …. I could not make it work.

  6. 6 On December 18th, 2008, marie said: [Quote]

    Oh joy! that command line crap (ie. bcchunk and the like) didn’t work for me…..so this is awesome. I also hear that you can convert .bin files in VLC using the streaming/export wizard. don’t know which is easier, but i will def. give your method a shot! thanks for posting this!

  7. 7 On January 6th, 2009, Laura said: [Quote]

    What Mac theme is used in this screenshot?

  8. 8 On February 20th, 2009, Jimmy Montano said: [Quote]

    Thanks for the tip. Installed bchunk using fink and worked wonderfully :)

  9. 9 On March 13th, 2009, Liam said: [Quote]

    Naturally, compiling fails. Any other ideas?

  10. 10 On March 27th, 2009, Andy said: [Quote]

    Bchunk 1.2 from Macports worked just fine for me. Not sure what problems you guys were having. IMHO that was the easiest and fastest way of converting to an .iso that I’ve ever done.

  11. 11 On April 14th, 2009, Puchi said: [Quote]

    I have a bin/cue file that contains wavs on top of the cd data

    Bitchunk produces an iso and the wavs in several separate files.

    Using Toast 8.0.3 the save as iso is grayed out. When mounting the bin/cue I get a CD on the desktop but not the wavs.

    At the end I couldn’t save an iso of the whole CD and burned it into an actual cd.

    I’m wondering if this cd is something like an data cd + audio cd all in one and that is the reason of not being able to save it as an image…

    anyhooo.. thnx

  12. 12 On July 12th, 2009, N.Nolte said: [Quote]

    Just get AnyToISO Converter - Convert various CD/DVD-ROM images to ISO format.

    http://www.crystalidea.com/anytoiso

    Using the free version without hassle, really a superb one trick pony. GUI is not that nice. Anyway.
    The program is free to convert CD images, Professional license allows to convert DVD images.

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