Authoring an audio Blu-Ray with a lot of tracks?

[bizzybody]

I have a collection of 45 CDs with a total of 852 tracks. I'd like to make an audio Blu-Ray (dual layer BD-R) with a simple menu that lists the albums then the track list in each album.

Will that many tracks fit one disc? I haven't ripped them all to WAV or PCM yet so I don't know how much space they'll take. Many of the CDs are only half full with 15 tracks.

[Cornucopia]

The max it could be would be 80minutes, with all the discs full, or in Megabytes that is basically 700MB. So for 45 discs all full that would be ~31500MB or ~30.7GB. That is too much for a single layer Blu-ray, but less than a double layer. And if your discs aren't all full, as you mentioned, you may be able to get away with a single layer disc.

But don't forget, while you may bypass support issues on some players, if you stay using native CD sample rate (44.1kHz), you may encounter trouble playing back on some/most players, because that rate is NOT part of any BD spec (BDAV, BDMV, 3DBD, 4KUHDBD, RREF, HFPA). So, to make it compliant, you will have to sample rate convert all your CD rips from 44.1 to 48kHz.

And it will need to be authored in some degree.


Scott