Burning Music to DVD - MP3 only possible?

[kwil]

Hi...
I have a new Pioneer DVD dual-layer recorder and would like to archive my CD collection onto DVD or possibly dual-layer DVD. I use Roxio Easy CD Creator as my software of choice.
I assumed I'd be able to burn tracks from my commercial CD's to DVD...but at the 'burn' part of the process, Roxio won't allow since it says the tracks don't conform to the proper format (Orange Book?)
I've found that only by converting to MP3 is it then possible to burn to DVD's but I'd really prefer CD as opposed to MP3 archiving.
I suspect then this is a characteristic of DVD's that only MP3 music is burnable or do I need a different piece of software to achieve my preferred aim?
I'd welcome your suggestions
Many thanks

[Sifaga]

if i was doing this i would rip to WAV files using CDEX then save the WAV files, create one folder per album. then save the folders to dvd.

[Cornucopia]

Here's the problem (2 in fact):

Acceptable file formats
&
Acceptable sample rates

CD has (raw) uncompressed LPCM, 16bit, 44.1kHz, stereo streams

DVD-Video has uncompressed LPCM, 16bit, stereo streams, but they are all at 48kHz not 44.1.
DVD-Video doesn't accept MP3 as compliant streams. And DVD-Video doesn't accept 44.1.

What you're doing isn't making a DVD-Video compliant disc, you're making a DVD-Data disc (UDF/ISO bridge filesystem) with plain MP3 files on it. Then your DVD player is accepting these for playback.

If you want to maintain the quality, rip your CD's to WAV (I use EAC for this), sample rate convert to 48kHz, and use the resultant files as sources for making a "Music DVD". There are a couple of good guides for this sort of thing on this site. Look under "Audio DVD" or "Music DVD" or "DVD-Audio" (although the last one is truly a misnomer).

Scott