Audio DVD

[StormP]

A while back there was quite a discussion on transferring LPs to DVDs as audio. One member, I forget his name, really pushed it. ( Why is the sky blue?)

Anyway, I tried it. There is a hangup. A DVD can only have 99 chapters. An LP or CD track is treated like a chapter. You navigate the tracks by advancing to the nect DVD chapter. But when you hit 99, that's it. You can no longer navigate even if there are more tracks. The tracks after 99 play all right, but you can't select them.

For example: 7 CDs @ 20 tracks = 140 tracks. Put the 7 CDs on the DVD and you can select only up to 99. Quite a bummer I would say.

Are there solutions? Any comments!

(No commnets about the sieve, please)

[tatifan]

Never thought about that.

Hmm... burn dvds of Mahler symphonies??

[Kevin Bresnahan]

The person who was advocating burning LPs to DVD was talking about burning to 24/96 DVD-Audio. There is no way you could fit 7 LPs of music onto a single DVD-Audio disc using 24 bit, 96 kHz sampling. That would be too much data. I suppose you might be able to fit 7 LPs of wav files, but I know of no player that could play back the resulting disc.

There are also some DVD players that can read DVD data discs with mp3 files on them. Mine cannot. I suppose if your mchine can read these discs and the display is limited to 99, this would be a problem.

Kevin

[StormP]

To Kevin,

There is a slight misconception. I am not talking about DVD-Audio, but what's sometimes called audio-DVD. The Wav files are incorporated into the Video stream. I can get about 9 or 10 LPs on the DVD. Any DVD player will play those back. The problem is a DVD can only display 99 tracks (called chapters).

I am talking 16/44. The research I have done says the most resolution you can get out of a new LP is about 12 bit, which means 16/44 is more than good enough.

I am also going to bypass my soundcard and transfer directly from LP to table top DVD recorder using DVD+RW discs, then rip the audio from the burned DVD+RW.

MP3 is not an option. I am only interested in Wav files.

To Rostasi,

Roxio Toast may be an option, but it's only for the Mac, right?

I tremble by the thought of Roxio, nearly wrecked my system sometime ago.

I don't want to use the TV either. Only the DVD player for playback. Many receivers play back DVDs.

I don't see how you can get 42 hours of audio on a DVD unless the audio is compressed (not MP3).

One solution to the 99 track limit is to append 2 LP tracks together as one track, of course with the normal pause between them.

To ?? (I can put water in a sieve. The water comes out nice and clean, especially if its tea water. The sky is blue because of the water. If water has gone thru the sieve, the sky is much more blue)