Digital music forum: Can I burn music onto a DVD-R

It looks like I have no choice but to burn to several cd's right?

I do this all the time with my Panasonic DVD recorder with the hard drive. Of course, I have to record all the music in REAL time thru the RCA cables, then the unit will automatically compress & burn the audio onto the disc. The new models will record onto all formats.You should have no problem recording 6 hours this way.

some converting software. I saw a free trial for acoustica mp3 software. It claims to be able to burn 200+ songs on a standard cd-r. Has anyone heard of this?

I just burned some mp3 formated music to cd-r and attempted to play in my stereo and it worked. So now I will try to see if acoustica really does what it says when it claims to fit 200 songs on a cd-r.

If you recorded MP3 files as "CD-Audio", the recording program would have de-compressed and converted the MP3s to standard audio files. That would play back in any CD player, but would have the same 74 to 80 minute limitation as regular CDs.

Recording MP3 files as "MP3 CD" or "Data CD" disks leaves the files compressed, allowing several hours of music to be stored on one disc. However, only some newer CD players that can read MP3s can play them. Since the ability to read MP3s is a great gimmick, CD players that support MP3 usually put a label bragging about it on the front.

DVD discs have much narrower tracks to pack more information on the disks, approx. 7 times more than a CD. The result is DVD players can easily read CDs, but a CD player cannot read DVDs.

I have no idea how this happened,I was burning a disc of Gospel Music and I had a few problems with the play list and I was about to give up but before I did I hit the burn button and away things went,when it was all over I had 160 full length songs on a 80 minute CD-R disc.I hope I can make it do this again.

Thanks. I used roxio which burned about 200 songs to cd-r in mp3 format, but it would not play in my radio. It's new but does not play mp3's. I am really mad, it's 2006, you'd think all stereo's would support it.

You can do it!

Any half decent DVD editing software can add a soundtrack to a video. Some would allow no video (mixed down to black), others require some video or at least an image. Play around with video editing tools, just be aware that the sampling rate of DVD audio is different from CD (48000 Hz vs 44100 hz - Someone correct me if I'm wrong please). Lastly you have more choices in audio encoding.

I use Magix Movie Edit Pro 11. Its software that people both love and hate. For example its the most feature loaded video editing software for under $100, but making a 1 hour custom DVD could take as long as 20 hours!.

Even though magix also has other sound and music editing tools (thats their strength), I actually use Movie Edit for sound editing (I'm frugal). For one You can do 5.1 positional sound, you can even use the object curve tool to create sound vectors. You can also use VST plugins to edit your sound and add effect. And finally you can write it to DVD (you'll just have to be patient)

jZe

You CAN burn CD audio to a DVD, but it won't play in any stereo (only a computer). That 120 minutes is for video. You can put about 7.5 hours of CD Audio .WAV files on a DVD. [Theoretically 9 hours (537 minutes), but it doesn't work out that way.] It will not play on any CD player, though, and probably not on any DVD player, but it will play on a computer. (Possible idea - Laptop to line-in of portable stereo???)

Best bet - buy an MP3 compatible boom box. I believe you can put 9 hours of MP3s on one CD-R at 128kbps compression rate. Hint: burn an MP3 CD-R then bring it to the store to try out on the demo models before choosing one. They don't all work the same.

I bought a Sony CD player in December, model ZS-XN30. It plays MP3 disk. It works on batteries also and the sound is good. With Nero burner I can make an MP3 CD that can contain 215 or more songs. It's great. At the time, the price was $135.
You can put more songs on a CD if you use the Atrac3plus software (Sony's software). It comes with the CD player.
MP3 players are great, however 1GB will contain about 150 MP3 songs or so...
Good luck,
Ginette

Be it music, pictures, or Videos, what discs should I use for different applications. I'm using Nero software, and really need help.
Thanks
Dan Studzinski

Actually, there are new software out there that burn audio to DVDs. I reckon that one site said up to 50 hours of music can be burned on to a DVD. I bought Roxio's Easy Media Creator 10 and it works wonderfully with making Audio DVDs. This is an actual Audio DVD, not a data DVD. So you can play this on a regular DVD player and have hours upon hours of music.

Audio = Music. What I mean by audio is that you can burn music. It would play like a cd would in a cd player.

I've done it, works on my dvd player, works on my computer. Unless I did some magic, it works. It gives you a menu to select which songs you would like to play.

I was able to use iTunes and make a 10 hour long CD-R disc. It has 135 songs on it. It is pretty easy actually. First all you have to do is make sure the songs you want to burn are in mp3 format. Then go to preferences and find the "burning" tab and check the mp3 CD button instead of audio cd or Data cd/dvd. The just make sure the CD is under the 700/800 MB limit and you're good to go. And it only takes a few minutes. And the CD plays in my car stereo which is a few years old.