DVD R/RW or DL with wav files play in any dvd players?

[morkys]

Just wondering. I often come across CD's I own that I would like to merge. Is it possible to make a DVD R of some kind with wav files on it that would play on a dvd player? I have a Yamaha C750 and a Panasonic F85, and also an older Panasonic CV 51.

thanx for any feedback,

[gijoel]

You'll have to check your dvd player, but I know that there are a few dvd players that play mp3s. So I'd just convert them all to mp3s and burn them on to a disk

[giannid]

Like the earlier poster said, you can put a lot of mp3's onto a DVD-r and it will play on most all recent DVD players. Look on the front of your DVD player and see if it has "mp3" written on it.

Unfortunately it is rather inconvenient to listen to music this way. It means you have to turn on the TV in order to navigate the menu. Also the DVD player may not allow for random play, both among the entire DVD or within a certain folder (which might represent an individual CD, Band, or style of music).

Perhaps a better option for you would be to buy a mini-stereo system that is capable of playing mp3's that are burned onto a CD-R. Then you can make your own CD's with the music you want on them.

A CD will hold 100-200 songs, depending on quality and compression settings. A DVD can hold over 1000 mp3s and is good for backing up or storing your CD music files, but for general listening it is probably easier to play mp3's from CD's on an Mp3 compatible stereo system, an Mp3 player in your car, or a mp3 type walkman.

You can also use the line-out on your computer to connect to your stereo system's aux-in. That way you can play mp3's from your computer and get good stereo sound.

[bmiller]

Converting to mp3's and then playing on a stereo system.Why?You have a stereo system,and in most cases surround sound and you want to compress the audio to a fraction of its size?
Mp3's are great for those little earphones,your car and the mini system in your kids room,but why you would want to compromise the quality on a stereo system is beyond me.

[Ai Haibara]

Hey, some people like having thousands of songs on one disc and not having to walk across the room to change the CDs, for several days.

[morkys]

I am fully aware of the ability to go with MP3's on a DVD. I will try that. What I want to do is put wav's on there. I have 3 dvd players, so perhaps if I lucky, it will work with one of them. I suppose I could make the highest quality MP's I possibly can. A dvd with MP3's would hold over 1000 songs for sure. Then again, my dvd players are all 5 disc carousels, so thats 5000 to 6000 songs.. MUAH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Ai Haibara]

Offhand, I'd have to say that I'm not aware of any players that accept and play WAV files... I've seen MP3, MP2 and WMA (and ASF), but not WAV.

They could be out there, but are most likely a rather rare breed if they do exist.

[TwistedLincoln]

I will concur-- I know of no DVD player that will play WAV files directly (except for the Avel Linkplayer2 from IO-Data, but this is a more specaialized player).

Should you decide to go with the Mp3 route, be aware that many (most?) DVD players will only play MP3 files from a CD-R -- not from a burned DVD.

[Cornucopia]

Have answered this regarding a similar topic on an older thread...

Try this:

Rip CD to WAV (16, 44, stereo, LPCM). Call it CD_WAV.WAV
Using Cooledit (or Goldwave, Audacity, etc), open and then without doing anything, resave as LPCM headerless (*.PCM). Call it CD_PCM.PCM
In Windows Explorer, make copies of both of these files, but substitute different extensions, so you end up with:

• CD_WAV.WAV
  CD_WAV.PCM
  CD_WAV.AC3
  CD_WAV.MP2
  CD_WAV.MP3
  CD_WAV.MPG
  CD_WAV.DTS
  and
  CD_PCM.PCM
  CD_PCM.WAV
  CD_PCM.AC3
  CD_PCM.MP2
  CD_PCM.MP3
  CD_PCM.MPG
  CD_WAV.DTS

Note that all these are the same internally. Raw PCM stream.
It could be that all a player needs is the right extension to recognize the file as "playable" and so make it visible in the ISO menu. And then you might get lucky and have it automatically understand the stream and play it out directly instead of it needing to be "decompressed" first.
Put these all on a Mode1 CDROM and also on a DVD±R and use those as test discs at a local store...

Scott

[mazinz]

I can't believe this answer was not even mentioned yet.

of course you can use wavs on a dvd, except that is then called LPCM, but none the less its a wav file.

any dvd authoring app can do this for you. The only thing you would have to do is provide a video, or better (to save more space) use a still shot of anything to use for each wave you thow on. And make sure you check inthe app before authoring that the audio is going to be as an lpcm

author your disc

[JustPlainDon]

There is always Audio DVD Creator.

http://www.audio-dvd-creator.com

L8r,
Don

[morkys]

Cool options. I will check them out.



thanx