How put Audio CDs on a DVD?

[TomBrooklyn]

How does one put audio CDs on a DVD?

Is there any freeware that does it?

Will most standalone and mobile DVD players play this format?

[setarip_old]

Hi!

You might find this link (to a thread I started a while back) useful:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=106596

[TomBrooklyn]

Hi setarip,
I looked at that thread and I looked at some links about MUXman, and I don't even understand what MUXman is or what, in simple layman English terms, it does.

[BigDid]

How does one put audio CDs on a DVD?
Hi, with a specialized app like: http://www.audio-dvd-creator.com/

Is there any freeware that does it?
Have a look here: http://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=903#903
and here: http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=300631
If you manage the Cd to audio part(Mp3, Aac, or Ac3 or others) supported in your player it will be just a matter of burning a data DVD.

Will most standalone and mobile DVD players play this format?
Look by yourself here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=98228
or compare here: http://www.divxtest.com/form/divxtest2_list.php?lang=eng

General FAQ: http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html

I am afraid it will not be so easy if you want to go freeware; you will have to learn how to use different softwares, so same recommendations applies: try by yourself and report back with concrete/practicals elements/facts.

All this links were retrieved from doom9 or google search; :search:

Did

[Blue_MiSfit]

The vast majority of newer DVD players have support for (at the very least) MP3. My folks have one from about 5 years ago that does just fine. I can drop a DVD+R with folders of MP3s on it in that DVD player and everything works perfectly.

New players are almost always going to have MP3, AAC, etc... support

It really depends on the capability of the player.

~MiSfit

[TomBrooklyn]

Oh OK. mp3s are cool. I didn't know if you could put them on DVDs.

[shadowhaze]

Take a look at GUI for DVD Author (download it a videohelp.com - tools). It has a feature called "Audio Titlesets"

From the help file:

Audio Titlesets:
Since version 0.98 you may create 'Audio only' titlesets. Select 'Audio Titleset' from the 'Insert' menu and place the crosshair cursor on the main menu where you want to have the start button. In the following dialog you can select MP2/AC3 files, edit artist/album/title texts and select background images. If you stick accurately to the 'usual' filename pattern:
File name = 'artist - album - track - titel.xxx' with xxx = MP2 or MPA or AC3 (or WAV with MuxMan),
the strings for artist/album/title can be assumed from the filename. The track number may be removed or added as part of the title. If the option 'Use file name pattern' is switched off, or GfD cannot interpret the filename, the whole filename is used as title name. In this case you may preset the artist and album strings BEFORE you add the titles or edit them afterwards (either line by line or with the 'Set for all' option). Background pictures can be used in the usual formats (bmp, gif, jpg, png). The audio files must be already DVD conformal (48 kHz) and within one Audio titleset uniformly (either AC3 or MP2 - using MuxMan also WAV with 48 or 96 kHz; same number of channels...). Within one Audio titleset you can be insert a title only once.

GUI for DA's not very intuitive, but it IS free and a good program once you know how to use it. For this, I'd recommend using MuxMan and wav to preserve quality. Of course you could create surround sound AC3s and use them as well (see http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1011274#post1011274 - thanks again tebasuna51!). Regardless, make sure you decide whether to use muxman or dvdauthor BEFORE you save your menu. Once you save it, you can't change that setting.