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Question

Windows Media Player Issue With DVD Audio (Windows 10)

Jul 2, 2017 7:11PM PDT

Hi Everyone:

I'm hoping you can answer A DVD recording question. I thought this would be a simple process and am sorry if I am making a simple error,

This bothers me to no end because I have recorded and edited enough music
over the years on the computer to travel from Alabama to Wyoming.

Here we go. I have a lot of music I wanted to put on a physical product to back up. While Flash Drives are tremendous being an Old Rocker I thought recording Audio DVD's would be perfect. The CD only gives you 79:57 of time and the DVD would allow at least 6-8 times the amount.

I haven't worked with DVD's in years but recall when I did the following steps got me the desired results.
Today I opened Windows Media Player (Windows 10 Computer). Selected from the choice
Record DVD. Opened the files I wanted. The files (let us call them):
Beatles- Live 1
Beatles- Live 2
Beatles- Live 3

are all in separate folders. I knew there was going to be an issue from the get go because when I selected the folders Live 1,2, and 3 to the Burn DVD command instead of staying in the folders all the songs were being shown on the list as it was one long CD
recording. I thought it would be worth the chance anyway.

When it finished it was exactly what I feared. Normally when you insert a DVD you get a menu and it shows the files on it. It should have said Beatles 1,2, and 3. If not opening
Windows Explorer-clicking CD/DVD Drive and all the folders of recorded songs should have appeared.
It ended up not only having everything lumped together but not even in order. Track 1 from Beatles 1
followed by Track 1 of Beatles 2 and not track 2 of Beatles 1.

Do you think this is a non-fixable issue with Windows Media Player or something I did incorrectly (which I hope)?

If Windows Media Player is only set to record the songs one after the other regardless of files would it be different in other software such as Nero or Roxio (other recommendations welcome?

I seemed to recall having both of them years ago and be it a DVD Audio or Video came up with either the choices of files to click and or an icon of the files to click.

I have received DVD-Audio discs in the past and the songs were all in separate files.
Any help from you is appreciated. I am always disappointed when I can't
figure something out especially if it is editing.

Thanks for your time!!!

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Clarification Request
Color me a little confused.
Jul 3, 2017 6:00AM PDT

Is this the playback order issue?

Or if you want a DVD with organized MP3s then why bother with WMP (Windows Media Player)?

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Windows Media Player Issue With DVD Audio (Windows 10)
Jul 3, 2017 6:08AM PDT

I am not using MP3. I wanted to keep the quality of the songs and they are FLAC or WAVE.

No MP3. The DVD would give about 8X the space of a CD.

Was using Windows Media Player since it had the ability to record CD or DVD and playback both.

The question was how the files regardless of WAVER/FLAC/MP3 are being recording.

It should end up in separate folders because Track 1 of CD 1 is followed by Track 1 of CD 2 and then Track 1 of CD 3. The question was how to have the albums separated so that you can click either by opening File Explorer selecting CD/DVD Drive and seeing the separate albums and not 1 long lumped together or open Windows Media Player and see the same.

The following up question was if it is not on my end (hoping I left out a step) would Roxio/Nero record the music the way I articulated. I have received Audio DVD's with separated folders for easy access.

Thank you and hope it clears things up.

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Then make a folder on your PC and organize there.
Jul 3, 2017 6:21AM PDT

Later to put on DVD use any nice DVD data creation app. I still use CDBURNERXP to create a data DVD with the folders and Wave/Flac/MP3 files as I see fit. WMP isn't great at this work so I don't use it.

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Windows Media Player Issue With DVD Audio (Windows 10)
Jul 3, 2017 6:30AM PDT

The folders were created on the computer already. It would be the work involved after the fact of having to then take 1 finished folder which Windows Media Player stored the finished files in and then looking one by one copy or cut/paste into a new file. Since the Tracks are not 1,2,3,4,5 you can't even select and then shift/down arrow. They are Track 1, Track 1(2) and so on.

It seems from somebody that I asked on Facebook (before I saw your post ,thanks) Windows Media Player doesn't have the ability to separate the tracks the way I wanted.

I'll check out CDBURNERXP.

Thank you for being kind enough to answer and going the extra step with a recommended source.

Have a great day,
Craig