Losing my mind trying to burn gapless audio to DVD-Video...any advice?

[SeeMoreDigital]

Read his first post. He wants to be able to archive his CD's to a few DVD's to be able to conveniently play them via his Blu-ray player. I assume that the player has no means of connecting a flash drive or USB hard drive or network with the music files on it. Also he is on a limited budget.

I did read the post...

I'm simply interested to know what other storage methods he's tried. And now you've mentioned it, the make and model of Blu-ray player too.

Just so people know... Even though it may not be stated within the players user manual, many players support playback of .mp3 files burned as data files onto CD-R or even DVD~R media.

 

[par4ken]

I did read the post...

I'm simply interested to know what other storage methods he's tried. And now you've mentioned it, the make and model of Blu-ray player too.

Just so people know... Even though it may not be stated within the players user manual, many players support playback of .mp3 files burned as data files onto CD-R or even DVD~R media.

I think that he wanted uncompressed files.

With those programs we have mentioned you can burn as Dolby AC3 for long playing times if desired.

Yes there are other solutions but still Audio DVD's are so cool. I would like to see a Blu-ray version, perhaps one exists?

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

I think that he wanted uncompressed files.

Hmmm, perhaps we could do with more detailed info from @YellowMoon. Along with his gear. MP3 encoded at 320kbps is pretty transparent...

I would like to see a Blu-ray version, perhaps one exists?

It is possible to create Blu-ray audio discs using TSmuxer GUI (without menus). I made a test sample last year.

As with any Blu-ray disc, the video needs to be spec compliant (I created a black video stream). The audio can be lossless PCM encoded at 48/16 at a bare minimum. And 'chapter' navigation points for each track can be created manually.

 

[minimumtumbleweed]

This sounds like A LOT of work and hassle for something that could just be played off of any old computer directly to a receiver/speaker system.

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

This sounds like A LOT of work and hassle for something that could just be played off of any old computer directly to a receiver/speaker system.

Agreed... I stopped creating discs for playing in my disc players many years ago

 

[mandrix]

AudioMuxer will create a "quick and dirty" DVD. You can have a picture display with each track if you wish, but I believe it creates a "blank" video as to be compliant.
I haven't done this in years, but I certainly created a fair number of them years ago with DTS sound.
IIRC, you can create either an MKV file or an ISO.
Don't currently have AudioMuxer installed so can't check it out to be certain.
But anyway it's free.

 

[par4ken]

AudioMuxer will create a "quick and dirty" DVD. You can have a picture display with each track if you wish, but I believe it creates a "blank" video as to be compliant.
I haven't done this in years, but I certainly created a fair number of them years ago with DTS sound.
IIRC, you can create either an MKV file or an ISO.
Don't currently have AudioMuxer installed so can't check it out to be certain.
But anyway it's free.

I just downloaded and installed AudioMuxer, I haven't tried it yet but it sure looks to be chalk full of features (many useful settings), It looks to be very versatile indeed.

It obviously has Snood's stamp of approval, as well! I found this thread Hey all - Where is the safest place to download Audiomuxer nowadays!

 

[mandrix]

I just downloaded and installed AudioMuxer, I haven't tried it yet but it sure looks to be chalk full of features (many useful settings), It looks to be very versatile indeed.

It obviously has Snood's stamp of approval, as well! I found this thread Hey all - Where is the safest place to download Audiomuxer nowadays!

Yes, it's pretty useful. I just wish Pl4it would update it a bit. But he has been out of contact for some time.
I tried to get him to automate encoding for MLP for DVDA but he wasn't interested. He did however automate for DTS-HD encoding, but of course you must have the DTS-HD MAS encoder installed.

 

[mandrix]

Fortunately we also have the MMH app. There's some duplication between the two, but having both, depending on needs, can be quite useful.