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Problems With Audio DVD Creator

Didn't see a specific forum area for this, so here goes.

A couple of years ago I got sick of digging through boxes containing thousands of recorded CDs (because of limited shelf storage) and started using Audio DVD Creator to combine 5-9 CDs onto one DVD. The discs, however, rarely played in my Panasonic DMR-E50 - I would get a "dirty disc" error message (not dirty). They would usually play on an old Sony DVP-NS400D, but the unit would sometimes freeze up, or the drive would make noises that didn't sound good, plus it is so old it can't process 96khz 24-bit recordings.

I recently bought an LG Blu-ray player (BD570) because my discs played on them when I tested them at the store, but it turns out I would have had to listen to them for awhile for the errors to occur. Although I don't get an error message, the discs eventually also cause this player to freeze up, usually about 3 to 5 minutes into the first track. Forward to second track, same thing. I don't believe it is an LG problem, because it plays other store-bought and recorded music and DVDs without a hitch. It's only the DVDs made with Audio DVD Creator, which my other DVD players also had problems with. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the software, with no change.

This confuses me, because I thought the whole point of ADC was to convert tracks to be nearly universally DVD compliant.
I use the DVD Audio setting with .wav tracks, Audio Format PCM at 48 khz and 16 bit, TV at NTSC. The same thing occurs when I change the settings and make 96khz 24-bit tracks. Does anyone know if ADC is just bad software? My DVD players have never had any problems playing other regular or recorded CDs or DVDs.

I then tried the open source Lplex and I usually get an error message saying that "44 khz lpcm is not allowed in dvd-video. No valid audio to process." I thought Lplex was designed to convert .wav and .flac files to burn onto a DVD? Also, Lplex is very limited as far as putting tracks and folders in the order you want.

I have also tried the CD-DVD Jukebox option in Roxio Creator Plus. And all the tracks play without a problem! However, my Blu-ray player will not recognize the tracks in the order I put them on the recording list and burn them - if I put the songs from 5 recordings into the track list and record it, the Blu-Ray player will play each Song No. 1 from all of the recordings first, then all the songs No. 2, etc. The only way around it is to create one folder, import all the tracks from each recording into it, and rename all the tracks, say, from 1 to 99. Very frustrating and time consuming.

I've researched this for a couple of weeks already with no solution and ADC is not offered anymore, with no updates in four or five years.

The only thing I can think of, and I am already way out of my league at this point, is that all the CDs I'm putting on DVD are copies burned from original CDs and mp3s. I rip the tracks from these with Audiograbber into WAV files, then import these into ADC. So, if I'm making copies of the copies, am I getting different audio signals thrown into the mix that is confusing the DVD players? Are the hundreds of DVD music discs I've made toast? Is there another audio-to-DVD software that doesn't have these problems? Is there an Audio DVD Creator setting I should be using that I'm not aware of? Will Bullwinkle pull a rabbit out of his hat?

I do have my Blu-Ray hooked up to wirelessly to play music from my desktop (and it works great!), but I still feel more comfortable having hard copies of my music in case of some kind of disaster, plus the LG Blu-Ray will not wirelessly transfer 96-24 or higher audio (don't know about 48-24, DTS or Surround Sound yet). It also will not play high-end audio  on flash drives through its USB port. I have a Dell XPS 400 desktop with Windows XP.

Sorry about the length of this and if there is other information you need, please ask. Thanks in advance for any advice!





Problems With Audio DVD Creator

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My DVD players have never had any problems playing other regular or recorded CDs or DVDs....

...Are the hundreds of DVD music discs I've made toast?
Probably.  An audio-only DVD formatted like a video-DVD should play on any player that plays burned DVDs.

I've never used Audio DVD Creator or Lplex. 

Do these discs play on your computer?

Check the discs with Nero DiscSpeed[/u] to make sure the disk is readable without errors or re-reads.  Or, as a quick-and-dirty test, you an also try dragging the files from the DVD to your hard drive...  If that doesn't work, you know you've got "physical" problems (damaged discs, bad burns, or bad blanks.)  The discs that play for a few minutes and then freeze, might have physical data-reading issues...

If you look at the DVD with Windows Explorer, you should see a standard DVD structure with an empty AUDIO_TS folder and a VIDEO_TS folder with VOB files.  (If the AUDIO_TS folder is missing, it will probably still work.)

I've never done this, but most regular (Video) DVD authoring programs can make either an audio-only DVD or a "slideshow" DVD.  You might be able to do this with Roxio.  The "slide" can be a still image of the album artwork or an "image" of the text showing the song artist/title.    (Usually, you'll have a menu too.)  I use DVD-Lab[/u] ($100 - $250 USD).  (Most DVD-authoring programs will encode/transcode/format, but with DVD-Lab you need to feed-in a properly formatted AC3 or WAV file.)  DVD Styler[/u] (FREE!!!!) can probably do it, or Wikipedia has a List of DVD Authoring Applications[/u].

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I then tried the open source Lplex and I usually get an error message saying that "44 khz lpcm is not allowed in dvd-video.
If your source is 44.1kHz WAVs ripped from CD, you probably need to convert to 48kHz before feeding the files into Lplex.



Problems With Audio DVD Creator

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Thanks for the replies. The discs all play on my desktop drive and are not damaged. I've also tried different brands of DVD blanks with the same result. I guess DVD Audio Creator is just wonky, at least with my computer. I did find out that Roxio's Jukebox DVD function will let you drag folders into it, so that at least fixes the problem of having to renumber the tracks! In case I want to use Lplex again, how do I convert 44 khz to 48? I have Audiograbber and Foobar, but don't see any options to change the khz.

Problems With Audio DVD Creator

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Have never done it, but I would image that in Foobar you add, in processing section of converter configuration the resampler dsp.

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