What is the best way to burn FLAC songs to a DVD disc to make an audio disc ?

[rubixcube007]

DVD disc has just 75 minutes of total track length. Even when I try burning tracks that correspond to the total length of 75 minutes I get an error that says "the selected files/tracks can only be burned to a cd". I opted for DVDs as the total size of those tracks is 1.9 GBs. Tried PowerISO, AnyISO and even Windows Media player with no success.

 

Right now I have 76 FLAC tracks (228 minutes of audio) that I want to burn on a single disc. I have a CD/DVD RW drive in my laptop. Any help ?

[aisle9]

If you just need the files saved onto a DVD, make sure you've told it to burn a data disc, not an audio disc. If you want to listen to them on a single CD, that's a tougher order. Unless something drastic has changed over the last 5 years in the world of optical discs, the limit remains around 78-80 minutes. You can "overburn" by a couple of minutes. but 228 minutes isn't happening. You're going to need multiple discs for that.

 

As a general tip, something that helped me out a lot when I was burning CDs all the time, some burner software hates FLACs. Converting the files to .wav first can help with that.

[Kilrah]

You can't burn music as Audio CD on a DVD. You can burn the files as a data disc. Obviously the player then needs to support reading files in the format you burned.

 

[dalekphalm]

Just to be clear, there is a difference between:

An Audio CD

A Data CD

An Audio DVD (Known as DVD-Audio)

An Data DVD

(There's also SACD - Super Audio CD, a short lived format that was DVD-like, but required special players that were compatible)

 

@rubixcube007 can you specify exactly what you want to do? Are you trying to burn FLAC files onto a Data DVD? Or are you trying to convert FLAC files to DVD-Audio? If you only have 75 minutes worth of music, you could easily burn that to a regular Audio CD (Modern CD's can get up to 80 minutes, typically... I say modern, but it's been like that since the early 00's). A Regular Audio CD will likely be sufficient quality for your FLAC files to get nearly or entirely indistinguishable.

 

We need to know a little bit more about your intent to help you, because you might not really be doing the best thing.