Thanks for the quick reply Adobeman. And thanks for the great program.

The part I changed is in the debug.script on the song conversion lines using besweet. there is a parameter "-2ch", and I assumed that was converting it to 2 channel wave, so I changed them to "-1ch". That part appeared to work, but then the dvda-author.exe line throws an error saying iti can't open the music files. Hmmm.

My files are not 44.1, so I will convert them to 44.1/1 channel and see if that works. Thanks.

 

I put in a bunch of 1 channel mp3's, but the program converted them to 2 channel wave. Yes, I am sure the disk plays fine, but I want it to be one channel to get more on the dvd. Any ideas for getting this to work?

 

OK. I started with a 1 channel wav so I didn't see the besweet stuff. Forgot about that.
If you can convert to a 1ch 44.1/16 wav file first it should work. Not sure what the best tool to do that with might be. Perhaps Audiacity?

 

Yep, it works. So I have to convert my 1 channel mp3's to 1 channel waves manually and then import those to your program to create the ISO and i am good. Thanks for your help. - Jeff

 

What a fine program. The program works but I am unable to get the disc to read in my TL. The disc will read in any DVD player I try or PC DVD but not in the TL. I am using DVD+R media and I am only using items to group 1. Maybe a media issue?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Try DVD-R discs, those seem to have a greater success playing in our cars, although a few members have used +R discs without any problems.

 

I acquired about 25 DVD+R discs the other day, and I decided to try to burn one earlier today to see if it would work. It appears to work just fine for me, although I haven't listened to the entire disc yet...and it's a disc I burned with my wife's music for her to have while she's driving when I'm out of town or whatever so there's a pretty good chance that I will never hear the entire contents of the disc. The few tracks I tested played just fine, though.

 

Well reading back through the threads (which I should have done first) I saw some post about Verbatim 16X DVD-R so I ordered some to try. I found a DVD-RW disc that came with my NEC 3540A DVDRW drive I am going to test. I am pretty sure it is a media issue as I got the same results with my Plextor 750A. I am going to test with the new media as soon as it comes in the mail.

 

Adobeman, thanks for the great, FREE software. I am now practically overwhelmed by musical options in my TL. Burned both single Group and multiple Group discs using Memorex 4xDVD-R, Nero Burning ROM 6 and a Plextor PX-708A DVD burner. All of them play flawlessly. My first attempt was with a DVD-RW disc....not so good. Fortunately I am a quick learner.

 

Never saw a response to the above, but I did have success in burning some 24/96 flacs. Size turned into my problem (wouldn't fit on a single layer dvd) so I downsampled it to 20/48 (using BeSweet). I had used A-man's orig script, not the GUI, but it worked.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-A, you can go up to 24/192 for 2 channel audio.

Kais

 

I found a bug.

If you have two albums with the same mp3 file name, eg: 01 - Intro.mp3, all of the albums will get the last 01 - Intro.mp3 song instead of the correct one for each album.

 

Hello Adobeman,

I ve followed all the steps you have mentioned and I burned the ISO image which is finally created using a DVD burning software.

When i insert the disc into my Car's player, it shows an error "Disc Format" and ejects out.

Please advise if I am missing something:
1. The final image is named as DVD1.iso (E:\Adobeman\Images Folder)
2. I created a Data Disc with only one file (DVD1.iso) which shows up with a Winrar icon.
3. The disc burning software i am using is IBM Thinkvantage Access Utility.

My car is a 2006 Acura TL with Navigation.
I am using a DVD-R disc.

Please advise.

Thanks

 

If you created a Data disc, it will not work with the TL. I use a freeware called Deepburner and have had no problems burning an ISO image playable in the TL. Unless you're burning a multi-channel disc, I would recommend DVD Audio Solo by Cirlinca.

 

Thanks a Lot !!!!!

It worked when i used DeepBurner (option "Burn ISO Image").
(It does not work with DVD+R though)
I had to use a DVD-R disc and it worked fine.

Thanks Again.

I also want to try burning a multi channel disc .....
Please advise the best software for this ....
Thanks Acurazine and Thanks Hawhyen51

 

I use Cirlinca DVD Audio Solo for multichannel DVDA

 

dude, very nice app! so brain-deadly intuitive, I now have my 20 month old son creating DVD-A ISO's!! (ok, not quite.)

my first attempt failed, but after reading through this thread my hunch is it's because of the media I'm using. what's sad is I don't even know whether it's +R or -R, but I'm betting it's +R, cuz it won't play in the 'puter or TL. I'll pick up some -R's and give it another whirl...

thanks again for the killer app!!!

 

Adobeman - Thanks to you Big Guy. I love playing my customized DVD-Audio in my TL. Great job.

 

Adobeman-- I am having some trouble creating playable DVD-A discs in a '07 Tl. I am downloading 24bit/96 FLAC files and converting them to .WAV files. I then used your GUI to create and .ISO image. I then used a program called Imgburn to burn the ISO to A Sony DVD-R. All the decoding and burning seemed fine but the disc would not play in the car. I did not get a disc error from the car it just got stuck in "read" mode for about 2-3 minutes.

I also tried to use DVD audio solo to make a disc of the same 24/96 flac files. I converted them to WAV and used the wav files to create and burn direct to disc. It seemed to burn fine but it too would not play in the car. Any advise you give me to help out?

 

Sorry the flac files were 24/48 could this be the problem?

 

Figured it out, I used DVD+A discs and they work.

 

Adobeman, I used your other tools before, but I really like this GUI. Makes creating the DVD almost foolproof. Thanks to the help on this thread regarding DVD troubles I was able to resolve my burning issue. After trying some HP DVD+Rs several times, using different burn rates and with verification and having no luck , I bought some Memorex DVD-Rs (at about 28 cents apiece). They work great, no problems. So now I am truly happy.

Again, thanks Adobeman and other for the help.

 

Hey this lools like a great tool...I just need it to work !!
I get the following error when I try to add wav files that were ripped using the latest windows media player---(11)

"the file is not compatible with the wav file requirements of this program"
Has anyone gotten this ?

Thanks

 

I just confirmed it with WMP11 on XP. It looks all screwed up to the GUI. Crazy #of channels and other data. I took the same wav file and loaded it into a different program and resaved it with a different name and the GUI took it in just fine.

This means that WMP11 is writing its file headers (the part of the file that describes the contents) differently from everything else out there. I'll try and research it. WMP11 probably writes them in a technically acceptable but non-standard way.

For now I'd use a free tool like CDEx (the best) or AudioGrabber to do your rips. iTunes might even be OK too but I never tested with it.

 

First of all many thanks to Adobeman for his fantastic program. Until I found this application I wasted many an hour trying to burn DVD-A's for my Acura.

One feature that I found missing in the current application was a "randomize tracks" feature. Yes I am well aware that the TL has a Random Track function, but call me strange, I didn't want to hear the same CD over and over again. I don't drive far every day (~1 hour commute both ways), so after a week or so, I was left wondering "didn't I hear that track already?". The head unit doesn't keep track of when you've heard all the tracks, so you end up having to tell it to switch CD's.

My solution was to write a small program to take the .advgui file that Adobeman's utility produces and randomly shuffle the tracks within each Group. Then I load that file back into the GUI and burn away. So I get randomization without having to use the Random Track function.

If you would like to obtain this little program, please PM me.

 

Ok, I'm kinda confused about this whole thing. Haha does someone want to explain it to me. On AIM maybe?

 

Hey, quick question...I have tried to download and execute your dvd-a tool, on my new Vista/HP laptop...I get a message that .Net version 1.xxxx is required, but when I try to load it from the MSFT site, I am told that it is already installed....any thoughts?...thanks for basics....huffbrau

 

You early adopters....

Are you sure you have 1.1 ?
This is the link...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

 

After more research and experimenting I have found that it appears that wav files created with Windows Media Player 11 (WMP11) are not compatible with the underlying app that the GUI uses to create the DVDA structures . This means that the GUI will probably never be able to accept such wav files since the underlying app (dvda-author.exe) is not under current development by its creator

It's not that big a deal since there are many other (arguably better) CD ripping tools out there.

Background...for the interested...

WMP11 writes its wav headers with "RIFF/WAVE/LIST" whereas just about all others write them as "RIFF/WAVE/fmt ". There is nothing technically wrong with the "RIFF/WAVE/LIST" it's just pretty uncommon for files ripped from CDs. As such it will not work with the program the GUI controls. dvda-author.exe returns the error "Failed to read metadata..." for the file which is just what I'd expect if it had trouble with the WMP11 headers.

 

Thanks Adobeman again for his software! Only trouble I had during the whole process was that initially when I tried to create the DVD-A iso, it would say something about not being able to create the structure. After a while, I found out that the file names of the wav's needed to be in english to work. Then I burned onto a Maxell DVD-R and popped it into my 2005 TL and it worked!! (at least for the random few songs i listened to).

 

question for adobeman, first off this program is awesome. my question is, when creating a disc is it necessary for the GUI to create an image and dvd stucture. or can it just do one or the other an i can burn it to save time? or is their a difference when burning the DVD structure files that it must be compiled in a img?

 

It's been a while since I did the GUI but I seem to recall that you need to do the structure and ISO thing twice to get it to work in the car. There is something (start sector of the AUDIO_PP.IFO ) in the first pass ISO that is needed to be encoded into the second pass structure. Without that the TL won't play the disk. You might be able to stop it in the second pass ISO generation and just burn the Audio_ts folder but the time savings would be minimal at that point.

 

Hey Msingh, tried to PM you, says you aren't allowed to receive or are unable to. Would like to try your little prog. Thanks.

 

i just tried to make a dvda cd and nero, or dvd decryptor will NOT open the image. it says its in the wrong format. dvd decryp, says the first image size is too big...what do i do?

 

thanx

 

Sorry about that - appears I don't have enough posts for PM.

Click on this link to download the program.

 

ok i must be dumb but can some one list a step by step process on how to make a dvd-a? Do you just need adobemans program or do you need something else like nero? Do you complie the iso image with adobemans program and then burn it to a disk with nero?? Also what kind of disk do you use dvd-r +r or what?? And what version of net framework do you need for it to work correctly?? Thanks

 

Need some hints here. Created a DVD-a with DVD solo and put about 50 songs in the 3 groups. Stereo in the TL only plays Group 1 how do I get into the songs in Group 2 or was this a error in authoring?

 

Found the Scn Rpt info Thx

 

this is weird..it made the dvda but i cannot find the iso anywhere in the folder
it even say completed..

 

I created the iso with adobemans gui but i cant get anything to burn it to a dvd??? I have tried deepburn , alcohol120 , and dvd solo?? They all just sit there when i hit burn nothing happens or with alcohol120 it ejects the disk says its complete but nothing was written to the disk??? ANY suggestions this is really flustrating!!!!