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I have a very basic mp3 player with only 128 MB memory. I mostly listen to podcasts which are automatically downloaded by Amarok into the folder ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/podcasts/data. In order to fit many of them to the limited memory and to have them available from anywhere, I have been writing a script that automatically downsamples them as they arrive and puts them online to my web server. The script is executed hourly by the crontab. The relevant files look like this:

Creating and mounting iso images under linux is very easy.
Creating:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.isoMounting:
sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/isoThe file endings iso, raw and cdr denote all iso files. Image files with the bin/cue ending, however, are not iso files. You can convert them into iso files with bchunk. bchunk needs the cue file to do this! Allthough some non-Linux burning applications (e.g. Toast Titanium for MacOS) can handle (burn and convert) the bin file without the cue file.

There is an article in the knowledge base, but here in short: