Hi all, I would like to create an audio dvd of all my mp3 files/cd's together. I believe that the total music that i own could fit to one dvd 4.5GB. But I don't know where to begin. I don't think that it is possible to just put audio types like mp3 on a dvd using Nero, but I haven't tryed that yet. I would like to play that audio dvd inside my dvd-player home cinema set. And I would also like to show a picture of the album of the song that is playing on my tv screen. Perhaps there are some specific programs avalible on the internet. I don't know. Please help me with this problem. Thanks in advance.
There are a Few Ways you can go about this but You won"t be able to do it with Nero I don"t think... You can use a Program Like "Audio DVD Creator" which will Make a Audio DVD that you can Play on your DVD Player... http://www.audio-dvd-creator.com/ It will Convert your MP3 Files into Dolby Digital AC3 and Put them on to DVD but I don"t think it will Let you Make a Menu or anything like that.... If you want to Make a DVD that Has a Menu were you can select which songs you want to Listen to then you can Do it simular to the Same way you would make a Video DVD with Multiple Scenes split into Chapters with a Menu were you can select which scene you want to watch.... You would First Have to Convert your MP3 Files to a DVD Compliant Audio Format Cuz MP3 is Not DVD Compliant..You would have to convert them to either "Dolby Digital AC3" or "Mpeg-1 Layer-2" or "Uncompressed LPCM Wav" all at "48000hz"..... I would suggest you used either Dolby AC3 or Mpeg-1 Layer 2 (MP2 or MPA) because they have the smallest file size..... You could use a program Like "MediaChance DVDLab Pro" to Make this Audio DVD ... You would have to Create a Menu for every Song and then Drag and Drop each Song on to the Menu , You would also have to make a Main Menu were you would List the Names of the Songs and Put a Button Linking to each Song next to each Song Name on the Menu so you can Play the Songs you want to Listen to.... You should also have it set up so when each song Finnishes Playing it goes on to the Next Song/Menu ..... Doing it this way would Make the Best Looking Audio DVD and it would Have Great Navigation features but it would be Pretty Complex to Do especially if you don"t have a Good Understanding of the File and Navigation structure of a DVD, If you think doing it this way is a Bit over Yer Head then you Might just want to do it the easyier way useing a Program Like the One I mentioned at the Top of this Post.... Cheers
Wow thanks a lot!. But I have another question. I have about 15 cd albums, I would like to fit them all on maybe one dvd. The totall amount of .mb would be less than the amount that fits on a dvd 4.7gb but that is when the song's have been ripped to my pc in mp3 format. ac3 files are probably larger than mp3? Is there a limit (exapt the dvd disk 4.7gb) of how much ac3 files/or minutes can be stored to an audio-dvd? I believe "Audio DVD Creator" has a limit of the number of songs.
At any Given Bitrate AC3 and MP3 files are the Same Size...So a Mp3 file encoded at 192kbs would be the Same size as an AC3 file encoded at 192kbs.... I think at 192kbs you can fit about 40 Hours of Dolby AC3 stereo on a DVD... You should be able to Put 15 CD"s on a DVD in AC3 Format but you would be better off NOT ripping in MP3 format and then encodeing to AC3 because this lowers the Quality of your Audio Files... You should Rip the CD"s in there Native Format (Wav) and then encode them to AC3 as you will get better quality..... Cheers
I found a program called "ffmpeggui" that converts mp3 to ac3/mp2. I have a bounch of ripped cd's on my pc, but they are in mp3 format, not .wav. would it be better to first encode the mp3 to wav and than to ac3? But if I convert an mp3 to ac3 at bitrate 128 and sampeling rate 48000 the volume of the converted file is much lower than of the original file. so I have to set the volume of the ac3 file much heigher to get the same volume as the original. that's strange. But I found that when I convert it to mp2 the volume stay's the same as the original file. I don't know if it's a problem to use MP2 files instead of ac3 (lower quality maybe?). I'm using "MediaChance DVDLab Pro" to build the dvd.
You can use Either Mp2 audio or AC3 but AC3 is Probably better quality ,also you Might want to use a Higher Bitrate than 128kbs because your Source Is Mp3 which is allready heavilly Compressed and re-compressing it Lowers the audio Quality so useing a Higher AC3 Bitrate Might stop you from Looseing as Much audio quality through Compression.... The Volume of AC3 Files can be Pretty Low so it is Normal to have to Boost the Volume when encodeing to AC3.... CHeers
How can I "boost the volume" when encoding? the encoding program i'm using doesn't have an option called volume, or something like that. Is there something else I can do about it? (without turning the volume button of the dvd-player to max)
Well the AC3 encodeing software I use has all Kinds of Audio editing Features Like these so i have never had a problem with this.... I suppose if you decided to use MP2 Instead you can use a Program like "Headac3he" to encode the Wav to MP2 and it has an audio Boost Feature and it is Freeware, also Tmpgenc will let you Boost the Volume when encodeing to MP2 and Wav but i can"t tell you how to do it while encodeing to AC3 because The Software you are useing says it doesn"t support this Feature unless you can get ahold of what I use to encode to AC3 which is "Sony Vegas Video 6" which is a Fairly expensive program..... Good luck
No ,there are No Other free AC3 encoders, not that I know.... If you wanted to do the extra step you could use a Program Like "Headac3he" to boost the Volume when decodeing from MP3 to wav and then the audio will allready be boosted when you encode Wav to AC3.... You can download it with all the Required DLL Files with it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KS8XMB5Z Cheers
