landtuna
Registered Member
I originally wrote the following in the HD thread but then realized more people might see it if it were in its own, so...for your pleasure:
Since some of you may not be aware, the 6-disc player can handle regular CD's and also audio-DVD's but NOT DVD-audio. (DVD-audio discs are a complete separate format and are available only commercially at this time AFAIK.)
If you would like to put lots and lots of music on your DVD media you can either load so many MP3's formatted discs that it would take forever to play all tracks or, like me, you can make audio-DVD's with full, uncompressed WAV files to take advantage of the excellent Lexicon audio system.
To make your own audio-DVD's first rip source tracks from your CD's/DVD's using any available ripper software. I use CDex but there are many others.
Then download and use a free formatter that will turn the extracted tracks into DVD files. I use Apollo Audio DVD Creator from this site:
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/download/Creator-Audio-Apollo,0301-4482.html
Using a program like DVD Shrink (freebie) to format the files into DVD format (yes, the same format as your video DVD's). Then burn the generated ISO to disc.
Your disc will now be read as a video DVD in your Genny and can even display video on the nav screen so long as your car is in 'Park'. Audio will continue to play once the car is moving but no video will be displayed.
Congratulations! You have just increased your audio file capability from 700MB per disc to 4.7GB.
Since some of you may not be aware, the 6-disc player can handle regular CD's and also audio-DVD's but NOT DVD-audio. (DVD-audio discs are a complete separate format and are available only commercially at this time AFAIK.)
If you would like to put lots and lots of music on your DVD media you can either load so many MP3's formatted discs that it would take forever to play all tracks or, like me, you can make audio-DVD's with full, uncompressed WAV files to take advantage of the excellent Lexicon audio system.
To make your own audio-DVD's first rip source tracks from your CD's/DVD's using any available ripper software. I use CDex but there are many others.
Then download and use a free formatter that will turn the extracted tracks into DVD files. I use Apollo Audio DVD Creator from this site:
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/download/Creator-Audio-Apollo,0301-4482.html
Using a program like DVD Shrink (freebie) to format the files into DVD format (yes, the same format as your video DVD's). Then burn the generated ISO to disc.
Your disc will now be read as a video DVD in your Genny and can even display video on the nav screen so long as your car is in 'Park'. Audio will continue to play once the car is moving but no video will be displayed.
Congratulations! You have just increased your audio file capability from 700MB per disc to 4.7GB.
