I know that you can burn MP3 files on a DVD. I've been burning MP3s on CD-Rs for 4 or 5 years and it's great to get 10 or 11 hours of music on one CD. But, that'd be over 70 hours of MP3s on a DVD! This can be done with Easy CD/DVD Creator 7. What I'm not sure of is how to get 7 hours of CD-quality music on a DVD?

There are plenty of formats you could use - the best way to decide which is to ask yourself what you are going to use it for. If you want to be able to play the music back on a standalone DVD-player, then you should probably adopt MP3. MP3 can give you virtually CD-quality audio anyway, provided you encode it at a high enough bitrate. Try 256 kbits-per-second 16-bit 44kHz Stereo and I'm sure you won't be able to tell the difference.

You can. There are several audio formats that could be used. Audio can be recorded in PCM format, which is the basic audio format on a DVD and is supported by all players. Audio compressed in the 2- or 5.1-channel Dolby Digital format can also be used. Dolby Digital is supported on all DVD players. You may also use one of the DTS audio formats, although these are not supported on all players or A/V receivers. The best quality would be obtained by using PCM, since it does not use a lossy compression algorithm. The second best would be DTS, although it is not universally supported. I author my DVDs using Pinnacle Studio Plus. Although it is primarily a NLE (non-linear video editor), it also manages the audio. Studio is not that expensive, but it has very heavy system demands. The current release, version 10, only runs on Windows XP. (Version 9 ran on Windows 2000, as well as XP.) Users can purchase different video and audio codecs for authoring DVDs. There are other DVD authoring products with similar capabilities and in the same price range on the market, such as Adobe Premier. I selected Studio because the package I purchased included a video I/O card with composite and S-video support, as well as providing a firewire interface for digital camcorders. I use a 24/96 pro-audio card for recording audio. Audio data must be stored in wav format for Studio to import it.

It is possible. There are new software out now that can do this. Most notably, Roxio's Easy Media Creator 10 - http://www.my-linker.com/hop/roxioeasymediacreator10suite/ . Here's what they say on their website: "By creating a Music DVD in Easy Media Creator 10, you can make a 50 hour (over two days!) music mix that will outlast your wildest guests or at least give you piece of mind without worrying when the music will stop. A DVD Music Disc is a special type of DVD-Video that contains music tracks, arranged in menus and track lists. You can play the disc on a set-top DVD player or on your computer using a software DVD-Video player such as CinePlayer. One music DVD, thousands of songs. Creator 10 puts you in audio heaven for hours and hours, whether you crave opera or rock. Custom on-screen menus and random shuffle play add to your listening pleasure." There are other third party "Audio DVD Creators," but they were extremely slow and some didn't even work. Easy Media Creator 10 is fast and reliable. Hope this helps! I spent a while looking for the right software. A lot of the software out there only make the audio "data dvds" and those will only play on computers, but Easy Media Creator 10 makes a true "Audio DVD" and can play on DVD players.

You sure can if you have Nero 8. If you have music CDs, you can rip them using Nero StartSmart, converting the music into the wav or wave format, i.e. without compression, thus getting the best quality. That way each CD will occupy a space of 750 MB, and you will be able to burn the content of 6 CDs to one single-layer true Audio DVD. After having completed the ripping step, you start Nero Burning Rom (ISO1_DVD - Nero Burning Rom) and load up the folders containing the ripped wav files. It's very fast and easily handled by Nero. It might further be interesting to learn that if you want to copy mp3 files to an Audio DVD, Nero Burning Rom will transform them into the MPEG format.

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