DVD-Audio

[jazzy m45]

For those with the Tech package...

This week I've been working on condensing, consolidating, and organizing my music collection so that I can stop switching CDs so much or having to worry about carrying so many. So, I found out (the hard way) that the DVD player will only play DVDs encoded as DVD-Audio but won't play a DVD full of mp3s or wma's, etc. I've also figured out that it's an extremely difficult task to find some reliable free (not pirated) software to make DVD-Audio DVD's.

Anyway, for those who haven't experimented with this at all, the DVD-Audio format allows for you to encode your music a different way with a better sound quality (I won't bore you with all the details of lossless formats, etc.). Anyway, I have made two DVD-Audio DVDs and I can really tell the difference in the sound. It's a much fuller sound with a more realistic replication of sound.

I've found 2 programs that allow you to make this type of DVD: DVDA-Audio http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ and Adobeman's DVDA GUI http://home.comcast.net/~adobeman/DVDAGUI/.

I never got the first one to work, but I did get some success out of the second one, but only with 2channel sound (I'd love to make 5.1 DVDs) and only using one "group."

For anybody else who has tried this...Is there any other software that you've used that allows for 5.1 channel DVDs?

[rgb129]

The problem you are going to have is that you will need to have DVD audio files Just burning MP3s will not give you dvd audio quality. Then you will deal with the size of these files. With DVD audio you will only get close to the same number of songs as you would on a normal CD.

[jazzy m45]

With the Adobeman software, you use .wav files to convert, which is what you'd get on a normal CD. In my two that I've made, I did use .mp3 files (the software converts them to .wav before converting them into the file format for DVD-Audio (the extension slips my mind at the moment). Using this software, I was able to fit 96 songs (5 full albums is what I think I used) on one DVD (4.7 GB of data).

That part isn't the problem. I'm not concerned with the files starting out as DVD-Audio because normal CD's don't come that way. Whatever music I put on the DVDs will have to be converted from a CD, so that's already out.

What I'd like to find is some software that will allow me to convert with 5.1 sound. I'd also like for the display to show ID-Tag information, but that's a lesser concern that I can deal with if I can find 5.1 sound.

[rgb129]

What I was saying is that the DVD audio you make is not DVD audio quality. You are limited to what ever the quality you started out as. If you were to actually use DVD audio files, you would only get ~20 songs on the DVD.

[jankenpo30]

DVD-Audio Creator is what you're looking for. & then jump to this old thread.

zerothread?id=441556

[jazzy m45]

What I was saying is that the DVD audio you make is not DVD audio quality. You are limited to what ever the quality you started out as. If you were to actually use DVD audio files, you would only get ~20 songs on the DVD.

Yea, after more research tonight, I'm learning that. It does still sound so much better than just putting .mp3 files on a CD and playing them that way. There's a big difference. I know that it's nothing compared to true DVD-Audio, but the gains in audio quality are definitely worth it to me.

DVD-Audio Creator is what you're looking for. & then jump to this old thread. zerothread?id=441556

Thanks, this did help some. I'm downloading the software now to try it. This is the one that you're referring to, right http://www.audio-dvd-creator.com/download.htm?

[jankenpo30]

Yes