mp3 to DVD

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G'day All,
I've been googling for over a week with no success probably mainly because of those stupid download sites crowding google (grumble grumble).

What I want to do is create a DVD of a number of mp3's to play on a Sunday morning, you know create a nice mood so the missus does get too grumpy ;-) Why a dvd? well that is the easiest format in this household as the other sound system uses vinyl discs but you probably wouldn't know what they are ;-) . Suffice to say DVD is the only option.

Ideally it would be a dvd created with mp3's and maybe bitmaps of suitable format containing the title and performer of the tune.

I've tried a lot of gear including DVDflick by renaming mp3's as avi but it does not like an avi with no video tracks. I think I'm close but need that extra bit of input.

Thanking you in anticipation,
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btw, please presume I am an idiot ... as I am.

[BigDid]

Hi,

If you want to create a mp3-DVD as you would for a mp3-CD, it is as simple.

Prepare your compilation on your HD with directories, mp3-songs in it, eventually pictures (jpeg) to view aside.

Use a dvd burner app like Img-burn, build the content of your dvd and burn.

Your dvd should be ready to play on a PC or a standalone if your DVD PLAYER is capable to play also mp3 and view pictures.

Did

[iffybob]

Yes you are,

A DVD Player will usually play a CD if you can burn a CD you are done, Use CD creation software to ( nero is good ), drag and drop your files into the CD creation, this should turn them into wavs and burn them to a cd.

If your DVD player says "MP3" on the front you can just burn the MP3s striat on to the DVD or CD, place the disk in the DVD player, and follow the instructions on the TV screen

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G'day,
Thank you for your replies.

Seems I have unco-operative DVD players as when I try your solutions I get a 'cannot read disc' error. The player does read CD's if I convert the mp3's to wav, etc. But! I want a larger number than I can fit onto a CD.

Is there a way to make a dvd sized CD (if you get my drift). I have tried just dumping wav's, etc but unless it's a CD Nero does nor co-operate in making a dvd a cd.

tia
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[setarip_old]

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Hi!

I was confronted with the same problem a couple of years ago. Read the entire thread at the following link:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=777757#post777757

[CWR03]

If you don't mind a retail suggestion, the full version of Roxio can create a music DVD with up to 50 hours of music, even importing unprotected AAC files. You can import any still photo or the album cover as a static image.

[iffybob]

Nero has a habit of not letting you do more than the safe and usual stuff, which is why it is good for new users, but it is limited by this.

I was just thinking 50 tracks for a sunday morning, ummmm....., sundays must be real long in Aus....... :)

[netmask]

maybe these programs will do it

http://www.audio-dvd-creator.com/

http://music-dvd-creator.en.softonic.com/

or make a slide show with your music
http://www.dvd-photo-slideshow.com/

[Ghitulescu]

Filling a DVD with MP3 would be probably a big problem both for you and for the player. It would be some 1000 songs on a DVD, which pose you the problem of having them, and might kill your player (it could not have enough memory to store the entire list of songs). At least you can have 150 non-stop days of non repeating music.

On the other hand I haven't yet seen a device that accepts DVDs but refuses CDs. Not too long ago, the DVD players sold in EU refused to play MP3 from DVDs, only from CDs.

One last bit: I think that unless the player has a very sofisticated shuffle play algorithm (it should also ignore the DVD navigation commands in case you added the music as videoclips/slideshows), most DVDs created by some softwares will always start playing from the begining - after 2-3 "long Sundays" your wife will throw away the DVD along with the never listened 990 songs.

So, get a CD-R, fill its root directory with max 224 songs (99 if you add them as clips), select shuffle and be happy.

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Thanks everyone, very much, for all the suggestions.

Thought I'd post the ideas I explored. I'm using all of them to successfully create a variety of different discs.

The idea of creating a slide show was an excellent one, as there are many app's like Picasa that do that and add mp3, wav, etc with only a few clicks. A simple, easy and quick solution and we get to view all those family snaps that get forgotten as we wander around the house.

I also found RAD video tools which can easily create an avi from wavs with a blank (black) video stream. Then it's simple enough to create a DVD using DVD flick. The good bit about this is that many many tracks can be put on one disc.

Another idea that I'm using is to use keepvid.com to capture mp4's from youtube etc, and then DVD Flick to create the dvd. It's not too difficult to find video's of the popular tracks but the video quality and sometimes audio is rather poor but for background on a Sunday morning it's fine. The poor quality in some cases adds to the nostagia in a funny sort of way. I find I get about 24 tracks per dvd which is enough for a short morning. The only problem is equalising the volume as it varies greatly.

I tried putting mp3's onto CD but only one (an old) dvd player can play it.

Iffy it shouldn't surprise you that our Sunday morning are quite long as everything about Australia is BIG! The state of Texas would easily fit into the back paddock, we pack a weeks supplies to close the garden gate and use surplus FA18's to fight the mosquito's ;-)

beers,
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