Soundtrack on DVD with Maestro

[liebesgott]

I would like to make a menu with DVDmaestro that points to each song.
Something like that:

1. Song1 -----> song1.ac3 starts ----> returns to menu
2. Song2 ------> song2.ac2 starts ----> returns to menu
3. Song3 -------> song2.ac2 starts ----> returns to menu
4. play all ----> all songs play after each other

If ne1 could help me with that it would be really nice.
I know how to do the basic menu (backround, subpicture)
Thanks

[Cornucopia]

2 ways-

1. Playlists
2. Command Sequences (SPRM/GPRM programming)

#1 is easy to implement, but you have to prep the files by concatenating so that it looks like all one movie/song, but with chapter markers at the individual song start points. Could be a bear if you're trying to combine AC3's and still want to keep sync w/Video.

#2 doesn't require any change to your assets, but is much more complicated authoring-wise. You basically do this:

• Set up an area of player memory and zero it out before/during 1stplay.
  Make each button add a value to this "memory" as a toggle
  and a value for button #
  (All buttons except last one are toggle value 0, last one is 1)
  At end of each command sequence, target is determined by toggle value, unless 0-then by button #
  At end of each song play, another command sequence check toggle.
  If 0, then returns to menu, otherwise continues on to next asset until end (using increment # and compare w/ button #) and then makes toggle and button #'s 0 and then returns to menu

Something like that. Clear as mud, right?
In order to avoid having to do lots of command seq coding, I usually opt for the 1st path. However, I usually have the source files, so I can easily just combine AVI's/WAV's and then encode the combo.

It's all in the manual.

HTH,
Scott