Posted by neutron on 05/03/07 11:10

On Apr 24, 2:25 pm, "Arny Krueger" <a...@hotpop.com> wrote:
> "Stuart Miller" <stuart_mil...@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> > "Richard Crowley" <rcrow...@xp7rt.net> wrote in message
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> >>> Stuart Miller wrote:
> >>>> "Doc" wrote ...
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> >>>>> If you use Nero you can select MUSIC and then either
> >>>>> MP3 or WMA or Nero
> >>>>> DigitalAudiodisc and then just add your files.
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> >>>>> What kind of file format do they need to be in for
> >>>>> the Nero DigitalAudiodisc? And how do you convert
> >>>>> the .wav tracks to that format?
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> >>>> The process we call 'ripping' is simply converting the
> >>>> musiccdnative format to mp3.
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> >>> That's not what ripping is. Ripping is simply the name
> >>> for grabbing digitalaudiodata off a
> >>>CD, and saving it, usually as wav (a lossless format).
> >>> If you 'rip to mp3' from aCD, it
> >>> usually involves an intermediate .wav step.
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> >> Indeed. In fact, the "cdnative format" is effectively
> >> WAV. Theaudiodata is exactly the same. The only
> >> difference is that theCD"files" don't have headers (since they
> >> don't need them, as the format: 16 bits x 44.1K samples
> >> is pre-defined.)
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> > I'm open to being corrected on this one, as I am just
> > going with what I have seen to be general usage of the
> > term, and it really does not matter what we call it.
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> > However, I have 'encoded' to mp3 a few thousand tracks,
> > using several different programs. None of them have
> > actually written a .wav file in the process.
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> There might have been a .wav file that was written to a temporary file, or
> the data may have been converted from the format on theCD(essentially .wav
> format) to MP3 on-the-fly, a memory buffer at a time.
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> > Of course, none of this affects the concerns of the
> > original post.
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I have tried audio-dvd-creator mentioned above and it seems to work as
expected.
If you want to *preserve the original audio quality* of your music CDs
to DVD, one approach that I am looking at is using Nero 7 Ultra Vision
4 and create a DVD-Video slideshow.
Each album of the DVD-Video would be a separate title and each chapter
of that title would be a slide in with added wav track as the audio-
commentary. Nero Vision 4 current version (as of 3/2007) allows easy
synching the slide-view length to the audio commentary track. The
slides could be just the album art cover jpg or perhaps an image of
the lyrics (sort of like karaoke).
You rip the audio cd to wav files and then add them as 16 bit/44.1 wav
as commentary audio to each slide. The 44.1 kHz sampled wav will be
upconverted to 48 kHz for the PCM audio track of course.
Then add the menu graphics in the Vision 4 DVD authoring along with
track transitions.
You can then cram about 7 music CDs onto a DVD, preserving the
original quality along with DVD navigation. This is what audio-dvd-
creator does as well.

Note that DVD-Video can support PCM audio up to 24 bit/96 kHz (if you
say record at that quality) but Nero Vision downconverts to 16 bit/48
kHa if you add such high-quality audio tracks in authoring DVD-Video
(slideshow or otherwise).

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