Hi, first post. (I take delivery of a TL auto navi next week)

I read the entire dvd audio primer thread and was still left with the question... "Can I create a DVD Audio disc that has 5+ hours of CD quality music on it?" So I emailed the people who make Discwelder and they responded: "The DVD-A format is very flexible. You can put around 5 - 5 1/2 hours of CD quality (stereo 16/44.1) music on a DVD-A. All our discWelder products can accept 16/44.1 stereo wav/aiff files."

So it seems this is indeed possible and the only question is can the TL's player read DVD+/-R discs. Has anyone gotten this to work? I may be willing to fork over the $100 when discwelder bronze comes out and be a guinea pig

 

Hi there:

I'm interested in doing the same exact thing.

My understanding is that the car can indeed read DVD+/-R discs -- isn't this what svtmike used when he was testing discwelder?

 

I believe Svtmike got it to work. He has a whole thread on it. You might consider PMing him.

Edit: LINK

 

wow, how did I miss that thread when searching the forum.. oh well thanks for the link!

 

S'alright, that's what we're here for. Please post your results when you do it.

 

I have indeed gotten it to work with DVD-R/RW (don't have a +R/RW burner) and it's great. I can fit nearly as much CD quality audio on a DVD-A as I used to get on 2 320kbps MP3 CDs with my previous car.

Mike

 

HOLY ****! Discwelder is $500? Is this right?

 

is that the only application that can burn dvd-a music? will nero work???

 

That's the only one right now. They are coming out with a version that is $99 called DiscWelder Bronze. There are other DVD-A authoring packages out there, but Discwelder is the cheapest by far.

You can find it for less than the $500 list price. When I bought it in December it was on sale for "only" $350.

I've always liked listening to my own (tapes then CDs then MP3 CDs now DVD-As) compilations over the radio, so for me it is great. Certainly the $99 version will be more palatable to a lot more people.

Mike

 

does the lcd show the name of the song like cd's that have cd-text??? and can you browse the disk to search for a song or do you have to hit next like 50 times??

 

Text is not displayed, and you have to hit next through the whole track set. The display is no more than you'd get on the front panel of a home CD player.

Mike

 

svtmike:

Can you say "CD Play track sixty-five?"

I wonder what the voice recognizes in terms of tracks.

 

I can say that, but my car won't listen; I've got a non-Nav.

Mike

 

Doh. Well, I wonder how you can scroll up to those higher number tracks without hitting your button a million times. Sometimes I wish Acura made the knob on the right side the track forward/back knob.

 

Come on SVT I have seen your posts... you're a smart guy... surely you can find a fix for that issue

 

Yeah, A quick search on google does not yield much. However I found some Japanese software here:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babel...u2pro_main.htm

If you 'tool' around with the menus and such there’s a 30 evaluation download which I'm attempting to get now. However there’s a section that you have to fill out some things like email addresses, and other check boxes. My Japanese is real rusty, but I faked it.

 

I've tried everything.

Polite. "CD Play 65, please."
Sweet. "You look beautiful in blue. CD Play 65 for me."
Threatening. "CD Play 65 or it's 87 octane for you!"
(Possibly broken) Romantic French. "Ma belle voiture bleue, voie 65 de jeu si vous plez."

None of it worked.

Mike