What is the Easiest Way to Make an Audio DVD?

[jet757f]

I am looking for an easy way to make audio DVDs from MP3 music files. I tried the software program on here called "Audio DVD Creator" but it doesn't work. It gives me a "Failed to Load Burning Engine" when I try to do the burn to DVD.

[transporterfan]

This is the one I use:

http://www.dvdtox.com/audio_dvd_creator.htm

[jet757f]

Any preference whether to use DVD+R or DVD-R?
Thanks for the info.

[hech54]

Any preference whether to use DVD+R or DVD-R?
Thanks for the info.

That hasn't mattered for at least a decade.

[jet757f]

I haven't messed with them for a long time. Trying to get up to speed on the latest.

[jet757f]

I have been trying a program called Cirlinca DVD-Audio Solo and it does work for putting MP3 tracks onto DVDs.
The only problem is I am being limited on how many tracks I can put onto the DVD.
For some reason I can not even put 300 tracks onto the DVD without getting a warning that this is too large for the DVD.

So is this a software limitation or is this really the limit of the DVD?
I thought a DVD would be able to hold a lot more tracks.
These are just normal length songs from the 80s 90s etc.

[jet757f]

This is the one I use:

http://www.dvdtox.com/audio_dvd_creator.htm

Also I tried this one too. Same problem only allows 99 files per album.
Why the limitation?

[manono]

The max number of titles allowed per DVD is 99. You could always combine some of the songs, with silence between them.

As for the max size, a single-layer DVD holds about 4.37GB of data. I can easily see there's no way in the world 300 average length and WAV audio songs will fit, but you can figure out the total file size you have yourself. You can fit more if using AC3 audio.

[usually_quiet]

This is the one I use:

http://www.dvdtox.com/audio_dvd_creator.htm

Also I tried this one too. Same problem only allows 99 files per album.
Why the limitation?

If you need more than 99 tracks per album, then you need to use more than one group per album. There is a limitation of 9 groups per album and 99 tracks per group imposed by the specification for DVD-Audio discs.

[jet757f]

This is the one I use:

http://www.dvdtox.com/audio_dvd_creator.htm

Also I tried this one too. Same problem only allows 99 files per album.
Why the limitation?

If you need more than 99 tracks per album, then you need to use more than one group per album. There is a limitation of 9 groups per album and 99 tracks per group imposed by the specification for DVD-Audio discs.

I tried that with the dvd-audio solo. I put 99 tracks into each group for a total of 300 tracks.
It still gave me an error message that this was too large for the DVD.

[manono]

Making a DVD-Audio, eh? Sorry, I was going by the thread title of Audio DVD. There's a difference, even though you said what you were making in the thread. OK, more titles, but the 4.37 single-layer size limit still applies. Did you ever total up the sizes of the audio tracks?

[jet757f]

Making a DVD-Audio, eh? Sorry, I was going by the thread title of Audio DVD. There's a difference, even though you said what you were making in the thread. OK, more titles, but the 4.37 single-layer size limit still applies. Did you ever total up the sizes of the audio tracks?

I guess they don't hold as many songs as I thought they would.
I will just have to limit it to around 200 tracks per disc and it should be fine.

It is so much nicer to just use the USB flash drive.
Maybe that is the way to go.
Anyway thanks everyone for the info.

[transporterfan]

Most DVD players (if not all) play MP3. Depending on the size and quality of your files you should be able to get a thousand or so in folders by burning an MP3 DVD (BurnAware Free software will do that). It depends on whether or not your DVD player will read what basically amounts to a data disc.