How to record CD Audio on DVD-R and playback on a non-mp3DVD

[DannyDVD]

I am trying to compile all my CD Albums of for eg. of Pink Floyd on to one or two DVDs and be able to play them in my car's DVD player as CD audio (cda?). Player does not support MP3.

I have read in the few old forums I came across that this is not doable, but was wondering if there has been any new development in this area? Are there authoring software that could do the job?

Any suggestions?

P.S.
I understand that there is a DVD-Audio (in AC3) out there, but my player probably won't support it. Besides, DVD audio only allows for 1 hr of music, which is too short for my purpose.

[Baldrick]

You can't make a cd audio on a dvd.

You could make a dvd-video with audio(ac3 or pcm/wav) and only still pictures. I think you can make a such with ulead pictureshow and add a wav/ac3 for each still pictures

[flaninacupboard]

the method i would use:

first, rip your cd's. open up track one of your first album in cooledit, then append track two three etc. make a note of where the track changes are. once you've got one wave containing the whole album, save it. (some rippers may enable you to rip a disc as one wave, please suggest one if you know it guys!)
take your saved .wav, open it in bsweet and save as a 48khz wave.

create a video stream the exact same length as your album of music. nothing fancy, just make a bitmap saying "Pink Floyd: Dark side of the moon" or whatever, load into tmpgenc and encode to mpeg 1 352X240 at whatever bitrate you like. 300kbps will probably suffice.

repeat the above process for each album you want on your DVD-R.

open DVDit. SE is fine, as we're using PCM. make the first play the video of the first album you want, and add the audio too. now add a chapter for each track at the relevant point in time.
add your next video and audio, set chapters. repeat.
make sure you link the end action of your first play album to go to album two, album two to album 3 etc.

now finally create a menu with a button for each album.

let it do it's thing!

you'll know have a disc that when placed in a DVd player will straight away start playing album one. you can skip tracks using previous and next. when it gets to the end of the album it goes to the next one. if you want to skip to the next album, press the title button, and it'll go to the next album!

I'd reccomend this method because the way you lay the audio down as one file guarantees gapless playback. i wouldn't be so sure of any other method. you'll get just under six hours of PCM on this disc.

[MOVIEGEEK]

@DannyDVD,
I would use TMPGEnc DVD Author or Ulead Moviefactory 2,both are easy to use and output .mp2 audio so you can put more songs on DVD as long as your player supports .mp2.

[thayne]

You can set up a play list in winamp, ver 2.9x, and set the output to the wav output and it will create one big wav with all the songs on your playlist, then you could do what the others have said by creating a DVD-video with a dumy video track add chapter points etc...

Hmmm, gives me idea's! LOL

[Paco M.]

Two answers to your question.

1. Look for my VideoCD Audio and VideoCD Audio + stills guides at the site:

http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/articles/index.html#vcd

Described procedures can be adapted to DVD format instead VideoCD.

2. In DVD Architect 1.0 user manual you can find a chapter titled "Creating a Music Compilation DVD"

Good luck!

Paco

[DannyDVD]

Gentlemen,

Thanks for the great advice and suggestions. Being lazy, I took the easiest way out and used the Ulead DVD Picture Show 1.0 and burned some test songs on a DVD-R. It plays like a charm on any DVD player even the ones that do not support mp3, because the software actually makes a vob file for the DVD player to read.

The only things to remember are these basic things when you do it:
**1- Need to have your CD tracks converted to Wave or MP3 before DVD Picture Show 1.0 can read them (maybe version 2 has the enhancement to read the CD audio tracks directly?)
**2- Use one photo per song as the background image (otherwise it makes a chapter point between transition point of each picture).
**3- And of course set the DELAY time to the length of the song in seconds (for example song Length 2min3sec=> Delay 123Sec.)
**4- Rest is just follow the prompt stuff and intuitive. Rip and enjoy.

**Note1- Limitation is 99 songs or the capacity of the DVD whichever comes first. This limitation pretty much defeats the purpose of this whole thing on DVD, since usually 99 mp3 songs of average length of 3-4min ripped at 128Kbps will fit on one 700Mb CD. Why waste a DVD??? Rip a VCD instead (if player reads it).
**Note2 - In my test case the size of the vob file was double the size of the collective mp3 files (100Mb of mp3 songs ripped at 120Kb or better produced a vob file of approx 200Mb) There is a little bit more (about 1Mb) that also goes to the housekeeping stuff (title menu, track name info, the ifo file, etc.)

[Cornucopia]

IIRC, with DVD you can have 99 TitleSets, with 99 Titles each, each of those with 99 Chapters. That's more than enough.

So it comes down to what does your authoring software support?
Many simple consumer types just support 1 Title, which truly will only allow for 99 Chapters and thats it.

Work your way up the chain of professionality and you'll get to enjoy more of the features that are supposed to be built into DVD.

HTH,
Scott

[flaninacupboard]

Didn't realise you wanted compressed audio, as you said you wanted to use CDA.
If you use the above DVDit method, but encode the files to .AC3 first in Bsweet, you'll fit 44 hours worth of music on. more like what you were looking for?