[Bowserite]

I have XP pro,5.1.2600,SP3,775 Dual VSTA,X86 Based PC,Available physical mem.419.54,Virtual available
mem.1.96 GB.
I made an audio DVD (MP3), saved it,when it started encoding,each song was called a clip?. There was 500 songs so it took a long time. When I burned it the DVD it contained an empty audio TS folder and a Video TS with 7 VTS files which are useless. I tried a clean install, updated Firmware and anything else I could find. same result. I tried Music disc project, create DVD music disc, with no frills just the basic, all did the same thing. I have tried ordinary install as well as the clean, twice, still no joy... Works fine for Video.

This post has been edited by Bowserite: 20 August 2009 - 02:01 AM

[Brendon]

Bowserite,

What type of disc are you trying to make?

• if you make an AUDIO disc [CD-A] it can only be on a CD, and up to 80 minutes in duration.
• if you write MP3 files onto a data CD or DVD as files, it can be called an MP3 disc, and can be played by some CD or DVD players, but not all. It can hold up to 700 MB of files [CD] or 4.7 GB or 8.5 GB [DVDs], and the playing time depends on the number of files, size of disc, and the 'bitrate' of the MP3 files.
• if you make a VIDEO or AUDIO DVD, the video or audio clips are encoded into DVD files and are written as VOBs and IFO files into the Video_TS folder of a Video-DVD. [Nothing is ever written into the Audio_TS folder.] This DVD you've made should be playable on a standard DVD player.

So you see, you can't be making an "audio DVD (MP3)" since that is all of the above. Which one do you want to make?

[Bowserite]

Bowserite,

What type of disc are you trying to make?

• if you make an AUDIO disc [CD-A] it can only be on a CD, and up to 80 minutes in duration.
• if you write MP3 files onto a data CD or DVD as files, it can be called an MP3 disc, and can be played by some CD or DVD players, but not all. It can hold up to 700 MB of files [CD] or 4.7 GB or 8.5 GB [DVDs], and the playing time depends on the number of files, size of disc, and the 'bitrate' of the MP3 files.
• if you make a VIDEO or AUDIO DVD, the video or audio clips are encoded into DVD files and are written as VOBs and IFO files into the Video_TS folder of a Video-DVD. [Nothing is ever written into the Audio_TS folder.] This DVD you've made should be playable on a standard DVD player.

So you see, you can't be making an "audio DVD (MP3)" since that is all of the above. Which one do you want to make?

Thanks for the enlightenment. I found 1057 MP3's on various discs that I saved over time. There seemed to be lots of room on a DVD-DL. It seemed like a good idea at the time...M.

[Brendon]

Fair enough.

Writing them onto a data disc a good way to store a collection all in one place, but won't necessarily be good for playing them from the disc.

Do you have Creator 2009, and want to work out a way you can recode them into a playable state?

[Bowserite]

Thank you again for your help. Sorry I did not say I had Creator 2009, but if there is a way to make a DVD-DL that I could put in the computer and cherry-pick songs off of it, that would be great.... M.