How can i created CDs in this format at home? Or do i have to buy them from the store?
Do we need a special kindof disk? (DVD?)

 

a dvd-a is just an audio dvd...if you have a dvd-burner at home you can create them fairly easily.

However, there really is no purpose in doing so unless the source is from an original dvd-audio. If you burn from a cd or mp3 on a dvd-a, you are still going to get cd or mp3 sound quality. The sound quality is only affected if you record directly onto the dvd-a.

If you're burning dvd-a to dvd-a, then this makes sense. Otherwise it makes more sense to just purchase the original dvd-a (for better sound), or to burn to a normal cd (cheaper)

 

if you want your TL to play it then it's not that easy as you explained


here try this:
http://www.acura-tl.com/forums/showt...ght=create+dvd

a program called discwelder

 

I find that there is a great advantage in burning my own DVD-As from CD source material -- size. I have 15 individual Beatles CDs burned onto two DVD-As. Each album is in a different DVD group, so it's easy to toggle between them. That leaves 4 extra slots in the changer for more music.

 

Exactly. More songs per disc on a DVD. Is Discwelder the only program currently available that will burn in the DVD-A format?

 

i've searched wide and far but i havent been able to find antoher program that burns DVD-a. a thought i had is what if the program just treated the disc as a CD-R, but loaded about 4.7GB of music? woudl it play? i dont even know if it's possible, as a program like nero automatically detects that it's a dvd-r and not a cd. not sure if i make sense.

 

Steinberg's Wavelab 5 will create DVD-A discs.

The software is very sophisticated (read: expensive) and can create DVD-As from numerous source files including MP3s and can strip 5.1 audio from DVD video discs and create DVD-As from the soundtrack.

The software is around $700. I got it on ebay at the "academic" price of $309 by showing my school ID.

Hope this helps!

 

a normal cd player reads songs on cd's as cda (or .wav). dvd-a uses ac3 so it's not like you can just convert any song to .wav and use nero or roxio to make your dvd-a. ac3 supports higher bitrates which results into ability to play music in 6 channels instead of your traditional 2 channel. hope i explained that right. i haven't really looked much into it until i'm ready to actually try it out

right now i really have no need to since i just picked up a 40GB iPod i feel that solved my problem. i'm not really picky when it comes to DVD-A quality vs mp3 vs whatever is out there, not yet anyway

 

DVD-A does support AC-3 (Dolby Digital), and most commerical DVD-As have one DD5.1 track to allow compatibility with normal DVD-Video players. But the real advantage of the format is in the PCM capability, which is much greater than that of a conventional CD. CDs use a 16-bit sample size at a rate of 44.1 kHz. DVD-A PCM can use a 12, 16, 20, or 24-bit sample size at sampling rates (for stereo) of up to 192 kHz. Of course, you'll need a DVD-A capable player to hear the PCM tracks.

 

Which program are you using to create more than 1 group ? I just bought Disc Welder Bronze, and it does'nt accept to create more than one group ! I can put 99 songs into this group, so it's not so bad still....

 

Wavelab 5 supports groups, but lists for $700.

You can get it for a reduced price by buying a "competitive upgrade" to version 4 ($199), then getting the $99 upgrade to version 5. That's how I got it, however, be sure to check the availabiltiy of the $99 upgrade, in case that option no longer is available.

:-jon

 

Well, it's still too expensive for me ! I don't mind to pay for a program that I use everyday, but I don't create DVD-A everyday !

Anyway, instead of creating many groups on the same DVD, I just create one group and put all the songs in.

 

I'm using WaveLab. Although the groups help you manually navigate easily, they are a problem for continuous play since the changer will move to the next disc after group 1 has finished playing. The only way to get to groups other than 1 is to manually change groups.

So putting 99 songs in a single group may work better for you. I haven't figured out how to do it in WaveLab yet -- it wants to treat each montage (album) as an individual group.

 

Maybe we could exchange our program, so we could both do soemthing interresting !