Burning DVD-A with Toast
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Burning DVD-A with Toast
I am in need of some help with burning DVD-A with Toast 8.
I have converted a group of songs into .wav and .aiff. I can then import them to toast then burn to DVD.
When I play the DVD in the car, the system reads it as a DVD-Video. The songs play and sound really good, but the problem is with track advance. I have to advance to the next song manually, nor does it advance to the next chapter without stopping and using parking brake, DVD hack is not an option.
If anyone has burned DVD-A I would greatly appreciate any help.
Also, is there a way to change the lighting on the steering wheel controls? I think mine are too faint.
Thanks
Marc
I have converted a group of songs into .wav and .aiff. I can then import them to toast then burn to DVD.
When I play the DVD in the car, the system reads it as a DVD-Video. The songs play and sound really good, but the problem is with track advance. I have to advance to the next song manually, nor does it advance to the next chapter without stopping and using parking brake, DVD hack is not an option.
If anyone has burned DVD-A I would greatly appreciate any help.
Also, is there a way to change the lighting on the steering wheel controls? I think mine are too faint.
Thanks
Marc
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Freight - I think you're plowing new ground here for most of us. I tried last saturday to find a post that explained how to burn DVD-Audio files and I'm still not sure how to do it. Are you on a PC or Mac? All I know is I have PC with several thousand MP3 files that I'd love to burn to DVD (so I can fit more on the disk) instead of CD and I haven't figured it out yet.
One more thing. In order to make it worth my time I'd want the DVD to have folders for each Artist or Genre of music, cause if its just a list of 2000 songs one after the other, to me that's pretty useless.
So bottom line, if anybody else has figured out how to get MP3's to DVD-Audio in a directory structure that the ML system will read, please share.
Thanks
One more thing. In order to make it worth my time I'd want the DVD to have folders for each Artist or Genre of music, cause if its just a list of 2000 songs one after the other, to me that's pretty useless.
So bottom line, if anybody else has figured out how to get MP3's to DVD-Audio in a directory structure that the ML system will read, please share.
Thanks
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DVD-Audio is not the same as MP3 data files burned onto a DVD. I believe the original poster is burning audio tracks onto a DVD. The files are not compressed and at the same time, there is room for more than 80 minutes of music.
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Hi freight400!
I've sucessfully burnt DVD-A with my toast with menu, chapters, and even a shuffle function. You do not need to convert them to wav or aiff.. Just drag and drop from itunes. It works wonders!
However, I'm also experienceing the same thing on the track advance.. Sometimes, it will work fine but whenever i skip a track, it starts to give all sorts of issues... playing the same track over and over again, or it will auto skip back 5 tracks and plays from there... arghhh...
My best advice is not to forward any tracks thru your steering wheel when the DVD is playing. Also.. i hate it when an incoming call cause the DVD to start from the begining of the track.. lol
One tip... check the Auto-play on insert funtion on your toast. So you dont have to park your car everytime u change to the DVD
I've sucessfully burnt DVD-A with my toast with menu, chapters, and even a shuffle function. You do not need to convert them to wav or aiff.. Just drag and drop from itunes. It works wonders!
However, I'm also experienceing the same thing on the track advance.. Sometimes, it will work fine but whenever i skip a track, it starts to give all sorts of issues... playing the same track over and over again, or it will auto skip back 5 tracks and plays from there... arghhh...
My best advice is not to forward any tracks thru your steering wheel when the DVD is playing. Also.. i hate it when an incoming call cause the DVD to start from the begining of the track.. lol
One tip... check the Auto-play on insert funtion on your toast. So you dont have to park your car everytime u change to the DVD
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Hi freight400!
I've sucessfully burnt DVD-A with my toast with menu, chapters, and even a shuffle function. You do not need to convert them to wav or aiff.. Just drag and drop from itunes. It works wonders!
However, I'm also experienceing the same thing on the track advance.. Sometimes, it will work fine but whenever i skip a track, it starts to give all sorts of issues... playing the same track over and over again, or it will auto skip back 5 tracks and plays from there... arghhh...
My best advice is not to forward any tracks thru your steering wheel when the DVD is playing. Also.. i hate it when an incoming call cause the DVD to start from the begining of the track.. lol
One tip... check the Auto-play on insert funtion on your toast. So you dont have to park your car everytime u change to the DVD
I've sucessfully burnt DVD-A with my toast with menu, chapters, and even a shuffle function. You do not need to convert them to wav or aiff.. Just drag and drop from itunes. It works wonders!
However, I'm also experienceing the same thing on the track advance.. Sometimes, it will work fine but whenever i skip a track, it starts to give all sorts of issues... playing the same track over and over again, or it will auto skip back 5 tracks and plays from there... arghhh...
My best advice is not to forward any tracks thru your steering wheel when the DVD is playing. Also.. i hate it when an incoming call cause the DVD to start from the begining of the track.. lol
One tip... check the Auto-play on insert funtion on your toast. So you dont have to park your car everytime u change to the DVD
1) What type (DVD -R, +R, RW, etc.) and brand (Memorex, etc.) of DVD disk are you using?
2) What music file format (wav, mp3, etc.) are you actually burning to the disk?
3) What type of computer (MAC or PC) and OS (XP, Max OS10, etc.) and DVD burner (Sony model XYZ, etc.) are you using?
4) What specific settings are you using in Toast to burn the DVD? If you have any screen shots that would be very helpful.
5) Just curious but how many Gigabytes (GB's), how many music files and if you have it how many hours or minutes of music are you able to burn to one DVD?
Thanks for the help.
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Kaewen, looks like we are in the same boat with the track advance stuff. I tried dragging and dropping files directly from itunes, but it did not work. I burn a cd and import back using the .aiff format.
I think I need to play around with toast some more.
I am using a mac and using dvd-r. I purchase the complete set of U2 songs from itunes, 443 songs and was able to fit all of them on one DVD. It sounds great, but the track advance is a thorn in my side I need to get rid of.
I tried using mp3, but that just didn't work. The uncompressed format of .wav and .aiff is needed.
I think I need to play around with toast some more.
I am using a mac and using dvd-r. I purchase the complete set of U2 songs from itunes, 443 songs and was able to fit all of them on one DVD. It sounds great, but the track advance is a thorn in my side I need to get rid of.
I tried using mp3, but that just didn't work. The uncompressed format of .wav and .aiff is needed.
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1) What type (DVD -R, +R, RW, etc.) and brand (Memorex, etc.) of DVD disk are you using?
I'm using Verbatim Lightscribe DVD+R, but others worked fine too.
www.lightscribe.com
2) What music file format (wav, mp3, etc.) are you actually burning to the disk?
I dont really know as the imac, toast and itunes does all the conversion for me. All I know is that I have mp3 in my itunes and it auto decode-encodes to DVD-A and burns it for me.
3) What type of computer (MAC or PC) and OS (XP, Max OS10, etc.) and DVD burner (Sony model XYZ, etc.) are you using?
I'm using a imac 20" with the Intel processor. I have a built in SuperDrive as they call it
Also an external Lacie Lightscribe drive on my Firewire 800.
But the whole process takes more than 3 hours.. to encode the music files, build the DVD menu and such. Burning time took less than 15mins.
4) What specific settings are you using in Toast to burn the DVD? If you have any screen shots that would be very helpful.
tada
5) Just curious but how many Gigabytes (GB's), how many music files and if you have it how many hours or minutes of music are you able to burn to one DVD?
I was able to get 40hrs of music on my DVD-A. Had around 7 chapters, each with 99 tracks in them.
I'm using Verbatim Lightscribe DVD+R, but others worked fine too.
www.lightscribe.com
2) What music file format (wav, mp3, etc.) are you actually burning to the disk?
I dont really know as the imac, toast and itunes does all the conversion for me. All I know is that I have mp3 in my itunes and it auto decode-encodes to DVD-A and burns it for me.
3) What type of computer (MAC or PC) and OS (XP, Max OS10, etc.) and DVD burner (Sony model XYZ, etc.) are you using?
I'm using a imac 20" with the Intel processor. I have a built in SuperDrive as they call it
Also an external Lacie Lightscribe drive on my Firewire 800.But the whole process takes more than 3 hours.. to encode the music files, build the DVD menu and such. Burning time took less than 15mins.
4) What specific settings are you using in Toast to burn the DVD? If you have any screen shots that would be very helpful.
tada
5) Just curious but how many Gigabytes (GB's), how many music files and if you have it how many hours or minutes of music are you able to burn to one DVD?
I was able to get 40hrs of music on my DVD-A. Had around 7 chapters, each with 99 tracks in them.
Last edited by kaewen; Feb 7, 2007 at 08:10 PM.
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After playing around with this DVD-Audio thing for a week or so, I think I have finally figured it out. I am by far no expert, but there are actually a couple of solutions out on the internet, so I will try to explain each.
The majority of the information came from the TL forum on acurazine.
Solution 1 and 2, I used strictly mac software.
Solution 3 is a combination of mac and windows software through Parallels for mac.
If you have music purchased from the itunes store, you will need to remove the DRM from the song to convert. The best way to do this is to burn a regular CD then import it back into itunes. DRMDumpster automates this process for you using a CD R/W disc. I set mine up before going to work and when I get home, they are done.
The majority of the information came from the TL forum on acurazine.
Solution 1 and 2, I used strictly mac software.
Solution 3 is a combination of mac and windows software through Parallels for mac.
Solution 1:
This is the one we have we have discussed earlier using Toast. The issue with Toast is that the files are burned into the video file of the DVD, akin to watching a DVD with sound only.
This is the one we have we have discussed earlier using Toast. The issue with Toast is that the files are burned into the video file of the DVD, akin to watching a DVD with sound only.
Solution 2:
Convert songs to .flac files, using Switch http://www.nch.com.au/switch/plus.html
Of these converted files, create an .iso image. I used DVD-Audiofile, it is free on internet.
Using Toast COPY function, drag the .iso file into Toast, then Burn DVD
This Solution worked fine for a while, but half way through disc, the disc stopped reading, back to the drawing board.
Convert songs to .flac files, using Switch http://www.nch.com.au/switch/plus.html
Of these converted files, create an .iso image. I used DVD-Audiofile, it is free on internet.
Using Toast COPY function, drag the .iso file into Toast, then Burn DVD
This Solution worked fine for a while, but half way through disc, the disc stopped reading, back to the drawing board.
Solution 3:
Convert files to .flac in mac
Move files to Windows in parallels
Drag files to program DVD-Audosolo, different from DVD-Audiofile above http://www.cirlinca.com/products.htm
Burn disc according to instructions.
This solution has worked on the test discs I have created so far. I was able to create a 28,000 megabit disc, about 4 albums
.Convert files to .flac in mac
Move files to Windows in parallels
Drag files to program DVD-Audosolo, different from DVD-Audiofile above http://www.cirlinca.com/products.htm
Burn disc according to instructions.
This solution has worked on the test discs I have created so far. I was able to create a 28,000 megabit disc, about 4 albums
If you have music purchased from the itunes store, you will need to remove the DRM from the song to convert. The best way to do this is to burn a regular CD then import it back into itunes. DRMDumpster automates this process for you using a CD R/W disc. I set mine up before going to work and when I get home, they are done.
I know this thread is over a year old
I know most posters in this thread have probably died
but...
is it possible to get some play time in the 06 ML by burning wav files onto a DVD-R?
I know most posters in this thread have probably died
but...
is it possible to get some play time in the 06 ML by burning wav files onto a DVD-R?
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