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putting music onto DVD?
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Is it at all possible to burn music onto a DVD disc, and play this in your car etc.? I don't think it is, but it would be so much better to have 4 gigs of space to play around with rather than just 700mb.
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If you use AC3 compression on the audio (which sounds at least as good as MP3 at comparable bitrates) you can easily fit hundreds of songs. I recently built a Top 500 Rock 'n Roll Songs compilation, and there was enough room leftover for a "bonus 100 songs". All the songs sound great.
Just one thing: you might want to normalize all your songs before using them with this software (unless you're burning whole albums, in which case this is less important.)
And if you don't have hundreds of songs, you can always leave the audio in PCM format, which will mean that you won't lose any quality from the original CD audio (assuming you ripped the source files yourself, to uncompressed WAV.)
If you only have a car CD player, check if it has any DVD logos on the front panel (or on the cover of the manual...) If it doesn't, it's very unlikely that it can read DVDs, regardless of what format the data is in. Anyway, car DVD players and portable DVD players are getting ridiculously cheap, these days.
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First and foremost, it's a question of hardware. No matter how you get the music on the DVD, you won't be able to play it in any capacity unless the CD player you're playing it on also reads DVDs. CD/DVD combo drives are commonplace on computers nowadays, but car and home audio is significantly further behind the curve. Any car with a DVD player (factory or aftermarket) should be able to read a DVD, but that brings up the other issue:
Assuming you have a DVD-capable drive, it's a question of format. Burning an audio disc in PCM/WAV format (as in traditional albums that you'd buy at the store) may work as shutz described , but even in a lot of cars with DVD systems, if you pop in a DVD, it's going to want to play a movie. If you pop in a CD, it's going to want to play audio. some, but not all, home and car CD/DVD systems wouldn't know what to do with a DVD disc that's burned as though it's an audio CD.
So what you want to do is store the music as mp3s and dump them onto a DVD (which I think is what you were wanting to do anyway). Seeing as how a blob of mp3 files sitting on a disc is entirely different from a ready-to-play disc that's identical to the albums you buy in stores, you need to make sure your device knows what the fuck an mp3 is. It's not like mp3 is some universal format that everything recognizes. On the contrary, it takes a lot of work for the player to decode the mp3 file and output it as music. You know, codecs and shit.
In summary: It's possible, but it depends entirely on what you're playing it on. You need a drive that can both a.) read DVDs in the first place and b.) recognize and play mp3s. I don't know of any cars that come with both types of functionality out of the box (especially since a lot of auto makers are leaning toward iPod-type connectivity instead of optical disc storage), but I wouldn't be surprised if there were a model out there with a CD/DVD drive that did just that. Failing that, you can always buy an aftermarket DVD/mp3 player like this.