mp3 music files and dvd

[sumeshkri]

i want to burn some mp3 files on dvd disk. what is the modality to do that? after burning i would like to play it on my standalone dvd player. how should i burn it. a guide /illustration is solicited.
thanks in advance.

[AlanHK]

I think many, perhaps most, DVD players can play MP3 files as-is.

Just make a "data" disc with your MP3s and see what it thinks of them.

Mine will play MP3s, MPEGs, JPEGS (as a slideshow).

They probably don't support playlists, or very long names, so you might rename the files so listed aphabetically they are in the order you want to play.

Since an MP3 is usually about 1-2 MB/minute, you can hold an absurd amount of music on a DVD, up to about 70 hours. A CDR can hold 5-10 hours, they might be a more convenient than DVD-Rs.

[hech54]

I don't think simply burning them to a DVD-R will work. IMO....there are not THAT many players that support it...and...I don't think that is what the original poster has in mind.
Any bets?

[jman98]

For best results in burning MP3 files to DVD or CD:
1) Some players have limits as to how many files you can have in a directory. Some do not. I would generally advise putting not more than 99 files in any directory. For example, if you have 200 MP3 files, you will need at least 3 directories.
2) Burn a data disc.
3) Burn ALL the files at once. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES do a "multi-session" burn. Close the disc immediately after burning.
4) Burn in "disc at once" mode and do NOT use "track at once" mode.

There still won't be any guarantees your player will play the files you just burned, but those guidelines will give you the best chance.

Note also that some players don't like long file names (as AlanHK said), anything other than 44.1 KHz may not play correctly if at all, VBR may be a problem, and bit rates either very low or very high may also not be played.

[AlanHK]

I don't think simply burning them to a DVD-R will work. IMO....there are not THAT many players that support it...and...I don't think that is what the original poster has in mind.
Any bets?

Actually, I think there are not many that DON'T support MP3s these days. All of my friends and family members' do, various different Japanese and Chinese brands. Most VCD players as well for that matter.

Anyway, it's certainly a lot simpler to do that than to convert to the official, but little used, DVD audio format.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Heck54 is correct,not that many SD players support MP3-DVD and no current HD players support it.The only ones for sure are Philips and Oppo players,most players support MP3-CD though.

[DarrellS]

That was the selling point to get my friend to buy the Philips 642 a couple of years ago. He told me that you couldn't play MP3s (which he had thousands of on his PC) on a DVD player and I burned a Data DVD (took me a week to make enough MP3s to put on a disc) and played it for him on my Philips and he went and bought one the same day.

Seems like I read that most players that handle MP3 can't read more than 800 files on a disc.

Using folders with artist and album is probably a good idea though so you can choose what you want to listen to instead of listening to 800 songs in alphabetical order.

[mats.hogberg]

All players I have / have had, has played MP3 from both CD and DVD. (One originally had MP3 playback disabled, but could be "cured" with a remote hack)
I've heard of DVD players that think a DVD disk must be a Video DVD disk, but I thought those silly players were in minority.
There's always some restriction on # of files/directory - My current has a 500 files limit. I can have as many files in a dir as I like, but the player will only see the first 500.
But to answer sumeshkri: Just burn them as data files. If your player is one of those (to me) oddballs that wont play MP3 from DVD, you can create a "Audio DVD" with Audio DVD Creator.

/Mats

[hech54]

I have one DVD player that will not play anything but DVD Video and Audio CD....my newer player only plays MP3's from CD...but even then they need to be in a root folder with no other folders.

[surfmonkee]

every dvd player i have had ( about 7) have all played mp3 files burned as data to either dvd or cdr

[sumeshkri]

thanks a lot for the comments to my qtn. i have got a new idea from your suggetions that it should be a data dvd and not mp3dvd. right? i follow. thanks.

[mats.hogberg]

Right. Data DVD.
"MP3 DVD" is an expression some company has invented - No idea what's meant by that term.

/Mats

[sumeshkri]

today i have burned a data dvd with 56 folders of music. each folder contains music files (a total of more than thousand files(mp3s)). i burned it on sony dvd writer on tech -com dvd disk. but after burning the disk , i checked it in the same drive of my pc. it takes a lot of time to read the disk. even then it does not open the main folder . (it works ok with video files. disk having video files of 4 gb is read within seconds).i used nero express and burned as data dvd. what must be the reason for not getting the folders open?the burned disk content according to nero is about 4048 mb. of course my c: is having fat system not ntfs.