Music Tracks on a DVD ???

[gmetal_06]

Hi all, i was wondering how many audio tracks you can fit to a single DVD disc
and would i be able to put the DVD in a stereo and skip throu however many tracks there were on the DVD disc ??

thanks in advance people, any help is very appreciated

[greymalkin]

what is your source audio? cd? mp3?

Some dvd players will play data dvd's that contain mp3's. If yours does this would be the easiest way to do it. Just pop it in your dvd player and you can navigate through the songs on the onscreen display. You also have the option of making it like a video dvd with a solid black video and encoding the music to AC3.

[SingSing]

There is the tool let you put up to 4 hours of CD audio track on DVD, and play it like a DVD - AudioDVD creater.

See : https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=Audio_DVD_Creator

[gmetal_06]

sounds good SingSing but im on a mac so no use for me

the audio is in mp3 format, wont the burnt DVD play on a cd player ? or is only gonna work on a DVD player

oh and how many tracks / hours can i fit a a DVD disc ?

[Noahtuck]

wont the burnt DVD play on a cd player ? or is only gonna work on a DVD player

Of course you can't play a dvd on a cd player... that's why it's called a cd player and not a dvd player

[SingSing]

I don't think I am alone in replaced my CD player with a DVD player. So I can play CD, MP3, DVD with audio track, instead of CD only.

DVD player now costs less than CD player.

[AlanHK]

sounds good SingSing but im on a mac so no use for me

the audio is in mp3 format, wont the burnt DVD play on a cd player ? or is only gonna work on a DVD player

oh and how many tracks / hours can i fit a a DVD disc ?

Most DVD players can play MP3s. Just burn them as a data disk (either CD or DVD should work). My player will start playing them in alphabetical order if I press "PLAY", though I can select them from a primitive file screen on the TV, so you may rename the files to make a playlist, (work with copies of your files so you can just delete the renamed ones from your hard disk after burning).

The number of files depends on the quality. At 128k, you get about 1MB/minute. Highest quality is about 320k; about 3MB/min. So a DVD, 4300 MB, = 20-70 hours.

[RLT69]

DVD player now costs less than CD player.

Maybe. Depends on the features. Any DVD player will play audio CDs and in that case they are about the same or cheaper than a Single CD player.

However, when you move into features such as 5 disc changer, SACD, and DVD-Audio, all bets are off.

For example a 5 disc CD player (Sony) that plays SACD will run you approx $150. A 5 disc DVD player (Yamaha) that plays SACD run approx $300. Granted with the $300 DVD player you gain the ability to play DVD-Audio over the CD player.

So it depends on what you are looking for.

[SingSing]

The most common CD and DVD players are single disc.

SACD and DVDaudio are about as popular as Betamax.

[greymalkin]

i do wonder why that is...i guess most people think mp3's are good enough so why bother going higher quality than cd..

[RLT69]

The most common CD and DVD players are single disc.

Which is completely irrelevant if you looking to buy a multi disc changer. That's why I pointed out in my post, that cost would be determined by features. Features and associated cost might be one reason why you would buy a CD player over a DVD player.

SACD and DVDaudio are about as popular as Betamax.

The difference being new and old material are being release on SACD and DVD-Audio formats. Neither format is going away, if anything they seem to be gaining ground. Considering that bands are re-releasing their catalog of albums on SACD, even though they're already available on CD, tells you that this format is gaining in popularity.