Salutation

I know that I read from some people here on how to store around 3 and 6 hours of music on a cd-r by making some kind of xvcd with a very low video birate to save more space for the music. I tried it on the DVD player (Toshiba) of my brother (because i didn't have one at that time). It worked fine at the last second of each track, the sound began to scratch. Since that time I bought a DVD player (Pioneer DV 343) and I tried a few thing. I don't know if the method I'm going to share have already being found by someone. I'm very happy for that fictionnal guy and i'm sorry for not seeing it. Anyway I felt like making a little contribution...

With that method, you can store 13 hours of music on a single cd-r with a bitrate of 128 kbps but i suggest you a little higher bitrates since mp2 (that the format we will use to encode the music) usually play around 160 kbps to produce a audio quality close to audioCD (128 kbps for mp3). You must also choose the bitrate depending on your DVD compatibility. I tried from 128 to 320 kbps and all worked fine on my Pioneer DV 343. The difference with the previous method is that we will make a vcd with only an audio track to save all the space for the music. Here we go:

1-Start TMPenc and open your music file
2-In the stream type choose System (Audio only)
3-In the setting choose mpeg-1 Audio Layer ll, at 44100Hz
4-Select whatever stereo or joint-stereo and then choose your bitrate
5-Leave the setting and press start ( you can encode with lame by choosing it in the environmental setting in the option). I suggest you to make a batch encode if you have many song to convert.
5-Start VCDimager (Gui), choose vcd 2.0 and open all your mp2 file by holding Ctrl (if you cant open them, them you choose the wrong stream type in TMPGenc. The extension of your file must be .mpg and not .mpa
6-Hit "make bin" and then burn the image by loading the cue sheet with CDRwin. All the sofware used are free and you can get them easely.

I don't know if this method work on all DVD with VCD compatibility but it worked very well on my Pioneer DV 343. Happy listening