Burn DVD from WMA as data disc

Jawed · Nov 8, 2007

I've got a few hundred music tracks that I'd like to take with me when visiting a friend. These tracks are WMAs (maybe the odd MP3). I want to burn these tracks onto a DVD-R as I don't have a portable hard disk and don't really want to burn 5 or 6 CD-Rs. Plus I'd like a playlist to go with the tracks, since the ordering is important.

So, I've got a couple of playlists in WMP11 that contain these tracks, and I've tried dragging them onto the burn list. But WMP splits up the burn list into CD-R sized sections. I've got a DVD-R in the drive, but WMP11 is determined to burn nothing more than a CD at a time, it seems.

Nero doesn't seem to help either.

What am I missing? Is this possible with other software? It's kinda mind-boggling that I can't simply drag tracks from WMP into other DVD-burning software, such as Nero Burning ROM.

Jawed

Zaphod · Nov 8, 2007

Export whatever playlists you want (i prefer m3u) and use a program with grep-like functionality to fix the paths (or use a third party program that allows relative paths to generate them). Then burn both the folders and exported playlists to the DVD.

Expecting every DVD burning program to integrate itself with the WMP database (or read arbitrary metafiles) is a bit like expecting them to burn 'the Internet' when adding an URI shortcut to a DVD-Rom compilation. If WMP can't change the target size of the compilation for its burning function, that is rather silly, though.

Jawed · Nov 8, 2007

The problem is that the folders are organised as /artist/album and I'm not burning entire albums - so I'm looking for software that can pull the selected tracks from each folder...

This is what all the burning apps do (e.g. I can dump tracks into Nero's Audio Data CD program) - the issue I've got is finding a way to burn a DVD-R not a CD-R. Obviously I can burn to CD-Rs, but I'd prefer not to have to shuffle discs when I'm at my friend's.

Jawed

Zaphod · Nov 8, 2007

That's basically what I was saying. Generate a playlist (or several) with relative paths and add the files to your DVD compilation manually. It'll take 15 minutes, but you have full control:

HTML:

<?wpl version="1.0"?>
<smil>
    <head>
        <title>My Playlist</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <seq>
            <media src="path\to\song\1.wma"/>
            <media src="path\to\song\2.wma"/>
        </seq>
    </body>
</smil>

Then build the DVD as such:

Code:

My Playlist.wpl
/path/to/song/1.wma
/path/to/song/2.wma

Bouncing Zabaglione Bros. · Nov 8, 2007

Why can't you just burn these in Nero as a DVD data disc with a playlist file? Make sure you're in advanced mode choosing what you want, and not just letting Nero decide what to do with a WMA track and automatically starting to convert to WAV on CDs.

Jawed · Nov 9, 2007

Bouncing Zabaglione Bros. said:
Why can't you just burn these in Nero as a DVD data disc with a playlist file? Make sure you're in advanced mode choosing what you want, and not just letting Nero decide what to do with a WMA track and automatically starting to convert to WAV on CDs.

I couldn't get Nero to do anything intelligent with the playlist

It only wants to burn a CD Data disc when I drag the playlist.

It's 394 tracks from I dunno how many different albums, a couple of hundred. I didn't want to work my way through the playlist picking out individual tracks from a folder structure containing roughly 1400 albums.

I ended up using Word search and replace on the M3U file to construct a batch file with XCOPY commands, one per track, to fill a temporary folder which was the source for the burn. 1MB to spare...

Talk about brute force.

Jawed

_xxx_ · Nov 9, 2007

I just burn it as data, works fine. But without playlists, each album is in it's own folder (anyway).

Burn DVD from WMA as data disc

Jawed

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