I am loving the RDX ELS surround playing dvd audio disc. Does anyone know how to change groups on dvd audio? I created a dvdaudio disc with 5 groups of songs and only can play group 1. Doing searches only finds out how to do this on the tl, something like hitting scan and repeat, but we dont have repeat button on rdx. Anyone know how to switch groups on the RDX tech?

 

Waiting for a response on how to switch groups on a dvd audio disc, it is hard to believe noone has needed to do this? If you create your own dvd audio disc, and you organize songs by lets say artist or album, it us easier to go to next "group" rather than putting songs in one big list.

I have 5 groups of flac files on one dvd audio disc, and can only see the first group. On another acura vehicle, seems someone figured it out, surely there has to be a way on the rdx. Only other option is to reburn that dvd audio and not use "groups" but I do not want to scroll through 60 items of songs.

Or are people not taking advantage of the els surround system and doing dvd audio, and only listening to 2 channel mp3s on thumbdrives?

 

I thought I'd take advantage of 5-channel DVD-Audio discs until I found out how much they cost! The ones I found for sale, if I found any at all, were at least $25 each and often a lot more than that.

Gregg

 

Yes, sadly hard to find dvd audio and when you do find it, they are expensive. You did receive one with your vehicle, and it is impressive. Have you tried that?

And you do realize you can make your own dtscds and dvd audio using various methods like extracting audio from bluray and dvd discs. Not to mention plenty of places online to get multichannel audio files that you can use to make your own discs. The results are fabulous and I simply hate listening to mp3s now, in this vehicle anyway.

 

I did receive one with the RDX, and it turns out that I had two others, but I don't want to keep listening to the same 3 discs forever, and I can't get myself to spend the money on new ones.

As for making my own, I guess I'm not surprised that it's possible, though I have not looked into it. Can you recommend some software (for a Mac)? Also, can you point me to some good online sources for multichannel audio?

I do have a few Bluray and DVD concert discs, so perhaps I can extract the audio from those. Can you give me some tips?

Thanks,

Gregg

 

If you search for "DVD audio" on this site (which is where I learned about all this), you will see plenty of threads and some even have links to sample audio. I guess the hardest part is FINDING the source for the multichannel file. But I will explain briefly on what is involved.

It is kinda overwhelming at first when reading it all, but really not that hard once you learn it. I am a windows person, so I first use DVD audio extractor, which is the program that allows you to write DVD chapters to MULTICHANNEL FLAC files. The software does cost, but you get a free 30 day trial. I used the heck out of it for that time period and assembled a good list of songs from various movies I have.

Then what I simply do is to use DVD-AUDIO SOLO Standard to take those multichannel files (in my case FLAC extension, not mp3 as those are not multichannel), and burn them to a DVD-AUDIO disc. This software also costs money, but you are allowed to burn 5 FREE DVD AUDIO disc as a trial. I am sure there might be free versions of different types of programs that do the same thing, but from reading the boards, these TWO work the best and easiest. Another good program I use sometimes is "EAC3To" which takes pretty much any video files like MKV files and MP4 files that support multichannel audio, and you can use that to write the audio tracks to a FLAC file. It is a simple command line utility type of program where pretty much you give it the SOURCE file video, and you give it the target audio file.

I don't know too much about the Macs, but I heard that Minnetonka's DiscWelder BRONZE 5.1 DVD-A Basic Authoring is for Macs too and supposed to work well. Xilisoft DVD Audio Ripper for Mac is a possibility also.

As for places to find files without going through all this, well, torrents have so many, but one legal place is this: If you search GOOGLE for "DIATONIS 5.1", they have a ISO image of a dvd audio file you can burn with any dvd burning software. It is ambient music, but still wicked surround sound. Bollywood movies I get from Netflix is my main source for multichannel audio songs, and I am sure you can do something similar for the movies you have.

Hope this info helps.

 

For my 2013 MDX Elite - dvd-audio group change - press and hold "6". Magic happens...

 

can you outline the steps you used to create the DVD-A? AND is it truly surround sound?

Thanks!