Music DVD's

[Jackmsd]

I upgraded to an Intel based mini mac for Christmas so i wanted to burn lots of my music onto a music DVD,s so I could take my old drive into a case that i could firewire to my mini as my drive was partition into 4 parts for each of us (the family) now most of the family is gone so i was going to make it one partition for me so I tried to make Music DVD and what i got after burning was a DVD that look like a video DVD with Video_TS and Audio_TS but I didnt found out about this till the fourth DVD burning and Deleting the music from the drive. I been geting the run around from tech service as I don't type fast and they want to help lots of people. And today got a message about what kind of disc I was using

[Jackmsd]

well I all ready got rid of them DVDs and it had no audio on them so I'm out of luck for them files but did save a few when i did do the data disks after i found that i had a problem

[tsantee]

well I all ready got rid of them DVDs and it had no audio on them so I'm out of luck for them files but did save a few when i did do the data disks after i found that i had a problem

The audio was in the VIDEO_TS folder on the disc, but not as individual files. If you got rid of the discs then I don't need to provide any tips on how to retrieve them, is that right?

[Jackmsd]

Ok I tried a DVD+ on my mini mac and it was the same way but when i put it into my dvd player on my TV it show that the music was there. so I quess that a music dvd is not for a compter but for the tv dvd players

[tsantee]

Ok I tried a DVD+ on my mini mac and it was the same way but when i put it into my dvd player on my TV it show that the music was there. so I quess that a music dvd is not for a compter but for the tv dvd players

Right. You can play them on the Mac using DVD Player, though.

 

I've tested some different options and the only one I've found to work is using the application Cinematize to extract the audio from the music DVD as AIFF files. There is an option where Cinematize automatically separates each file based on chapter markers on the DVD which gets you exactly what you want. It's easy and quick. As I noted before you'll need to rename each track that gets exported from the DVD.

 

[Jackmsd]

Thanks it under the bridge now as I will have to find or re-buy or borrow music that I'm missing. I'm going to use data from now on.

[tsantee]

By now you probably have been informed is what you actually needed to do was burn these as a Data disc rather than as a Music DVD. You can recover your audio files from the Music DVD but it is going to be a bit of a hassle because none of the track names or artist and album info will be exported. You'll have to add the information back after adding the tracks to iTunes.

 

I need to do a little experimenting in order to recommend the easiest way to export the tracks as regular audio files. Stay tuned....