Making an Audio DVD?

[hoogs]

What programs make Audio dvds? I want to copy a bunch of music onto a DVD so I can transfer it onto my Xbox, but Im pretty sure it will only read the music if its an actual Audio Cd. Nero wont let me do it...

[katjarella]

genuine AudioDVD in the x-box? NOOOOOO

AudioDVD:
Sonic dvdaudiocreator (http://www.mediarte.com/products/dvd/dvdaudiocreator/)
DVD-Audio Creator provides you with the tools to bring together all the elements of an audio production, and format them for DVD. The advanced technology in DVD-Audio Creator ? developed by DVD industry standard-bearers Sonic and MEI ? means that you can be assured that your DVD title will be compatible with not only the latest generation of Universal DVD-Audio/DVD-Video players, but also the more than 50 million DVD-Video players already installed in people?s homes. What makes this possible is unique technology that allows you to mirror the High-Density LPCM or MLP DVD-Audio tracks with DVD-Video-compatible Dolby Digital or DTS audio tracks.

Discwelder : chrome (http://www.mediarte.com/products/dvd/minnetonka/discwelder/chrome/)
discWelder CHROME offers an extensive feature set for the production of highly interactive DVD Audio discs for release to market, including import of all Linear PCM formats supported in the DVD-A specification, MLP import, user-defined menu graphics, a hierarchy of multiple selections menus, slide show graphics to accompany audio tracks, DLT output, and video_ts import for 'hybrid' DVD-A / DVD-V formatting capability.

Discwelder : steel (http://www.mediarte.com/products/dvd/minnetonka/discwelder/steel/)
With discWelder STEEL, you can import all Linear PCM formats supported in the DVD-A specification, including non-encoded/ uncompressed surround (consisting of up to 6 channels of 24-bit, 48KHz audio), and/or high-resolution stereo (two channels of 24-bit, up to 192KHz audio), in WAV or AIFF file format. Surround and stereo tracks may be used on the same disc, and a discWelder-burned disc will play on any DVD-A player that supports DVD-R/RW.
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Audio On DVD:
DVD Architect (http://www.sonicfoundry.com/products/showproduct.asp?PID=810)
An extensive set of professional tools for developing dynamic menu-based DVDs, music compilations, movies, and slideshow presentations. DVD Architect even lets you import Dolby® Digital AC-3 files to create powerful surround-sound DVDs.

[auenf]

Originally posted by hoogs
What programs make Audio dvds? I want to copy a bunch of music onto a DVD so I can transfer it onto my Xbox, but Im pretty sure it will only read the music if its an actual Audio Cd. Nero wont let me do it...

what you may want to try (but probably wont work due to the fact that the Xbox will decide what to do with the disc after it works out what format it is), is somehow create a CD-DA image that is almost 4.4gb, and try burning that to a DVD RW and see what happens.

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[GM006]

Couldn't you just encode your tracks as ac3, make a tracklist menu, and author it as a DVD-Video Disc?

[EiGuscheMa]

hoogs,

if you just want to punch a whole lot of music to DVD that can be played on an X-Box:

then making a Video-DVD might be just the solution. You won´t have to make a DVD-Audio. That one is only required for high resolution ( 192kHz, 24 Bit) Audio :) .

Here´s what I´m doing:
In Scenarist, I drag and drop a picture or just a black frame into an empty Title and create a "slide show".
In the track editor I "blow up" the slide´s length to the duration of the audio and simply add the audio track.
Audio must be 48kHz sample rate, of course. But you can use PCM, AC3 and even MPEG1-Layer2.
I create a "slideshow" for each Audio-track and finally put the shows together in one PGC, so the navigation will be more "Audio-CD" like.

I know that it is possible with other authoring-programs, too.

The basic technique remains the same, however:
Take a still picture to create a "slideshow" and simply add your audio to it!

hope this helps

[symonjfox]

Hi, I just bought a DVD+-RW drive.

I'd like to store my huge MP3 collection (CD-MP3) into DVDs.

If I create a DATA DVD disc with just MP3s will this disc playable by most DVD players (and future DVD-A players)?

What do you suggest: ISO or UDF disc (for max compatibility)?

Thanks for the replies

[influenza]

Most players with mp3 compatibility will not play dvds with mp3s on it. They think it's a dvd video.

[EiGuscheMa]

Well, there are quite a lot of DVD-players that will play MP3 content on DVD (here in Germany)
Most of them are "NoNames", made in China.

Unfortunenately there is no really reliable list of players that will play mp3 on DVD.

I can report that the "Harman Kardon DVD-25" will do so. :) For sure, this is not a "NoName"

I simply create a "DVD-ROM (ISO/UDF)" using RecordNowMax for mp3-DVD.

[symonjfox]

Hi, I made a test, too, but my Philips DVD 723 doesn't read MP3 DVDs (it has also many problems with MP3 CDs ... let's imagine :rolleyes: ).

Thanks for the replies

Ah, and what about PCM DVD audio? I know that it's possible, but I really don't know how to burn them. I use Nero 5.5.10.42. Ah, I haven't any DVDAudio player, but for sure I'll buy one when will be avaiable at good price; but I'd like to burn these discs NOW (80 minutes of CD is too short in some cases).

[EiGuscheMa]

well, as katjarella already mentioned, there is quite a bunch of rare and expensive programs to produce a DVD-Audio.

Remember, however: If your PCM-Audio is not above 96 kHz / 24 bit / 2 channel, you may author a simple DVD-Video with that audio content.

[GM006]

Like I said earlier, Just uncompress the MP3s then encode them as 2-channel ac3 tracks. Make a still menu with your track list and add the appropiate links. Burn it as a DVD-Video. You don't need the still menu, but it just adds a little touch to it. As far as PCM-DVD Audio, its pretty lame. PCM Audio takes up a bunch of space. You're better off sticking to AC3.

[influenza]

I have been thinking about this too, but did you make soem kind of batch file for the uncompression and reencoding or what software did you use?

edit: never mind I already experimented with besweet in batch mode

[influenza]

This works really nice.

What I did is convert a bunch of mp3s to ac3 using besweet. I've created a blank bmp with paintshop with the pal dimensions.

Imported the bmp and ac3 into scenarist.

Created slide show tracks with length of the different audio tracks, added subtitle with trackname. This takes some time per track ofcourse.

I've created multiple pgcs (1 pgc per album, every track as a chapter). And I've created one pgc with all audio tracks (seamless branching, so this doesn't take any additional space!). I've set the properties of this pgc to shuffle play.

Create a simple menu with links to the different pgcs and we're set.

It takes time but the final result is really nice. A DVD with about 500-650 tracks that can be played both by artist/album and can by played randomly for a lot of listening pleasure.

[Andra]

I've set the properties of this pgc to shuffle play.

I've done this with a music video DVD, but when I try it in PowerDVD it doesn't shuffle. I'm pretty shure I refered to the right PGC.

Any suggestions?

Yours,
Andra

[influenza]

Powerdvd isn't always the best tool to preview unfortunately. I would sugegst burning to a RW and try it on your settop. If it doesn't work we can take it up from there.

[Andra]

PowerDVD was the problem... I burned it to a RW, shoved it into my Xbox, and it played and shuffled just like it should.

A different problem (one with subpictures) didn't go away though.

Please check out http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?threadid=88776

THANKS!!

[thetriangleguy]

It takes time but the final result is really nice. A DVD with about 500-650 tracks that can be played both by artist/album and can by played randomly for a lot of listening pleasure.

Could somebody please explain to me how to do this? I've been searching for weeks on the web for some kind of guide to making an audio dvd from mp3s which has around this number of tracks which can be played by artist/album and most importantly randomly. This is the only page that I've found that comes close to explaining but I'm still not sure I understand. Is there an easier way of doing this? Can I do it in a program other than scenarist? (As I understand it, it is possible to do it on Roxio Toast on the Mac but what about windows? Is there a comparable piece of software?) Basically I'm just looking for any way of doing this and I'm sure I can't be alone in thinking that a guide for this would be a useful addition to your, or any other dvd authoring, website.

Thanks in advance for any help on this subject

[setarip_old]

@thetriangleguy

Hi!
As I understand it, it is possible to do it on Roxio Toast on the Mac but what about windows? Is there a comparable piece of software?
According to PC World, the latest version of Roxio software for the PC has this capability...

[thetriangleguy]

Easy Media Creator is the windows equivilant and it can make up audio dvds from mp3s (through its dvd music assistant) but unfortunately it doesn't have a shuffle function which is what I'm looking for.

[Crono]

@thetriangleguy

Hi!

According to PC World, the latest version of Roxio software for the PC has this capability...

I read that article too. It said that' Nero 7 has mp3 DVD capability as well.

[thetriangleguy]

Created slide show tracks with length of the different audio tracks, added subtitle with trackname.

I've been following influenza's instructions on how to make an audio dvd using scenarist and i was wondering if anyone can tell me about at which stage I need to do the subtitles detailing track names? How do I go about adding that in scenarist or do I have to add it after I've created the video files/disc image?

[influenza]

You can add subs in the preview screen (can't recall the exact name by heart). Simulation window or something it's called.