DVD data disc song order

Is it possible to burn a DVD MP3 disc in itunes. Every time I select MP3 disc and insert a DVD it switches to data disc. I then end up with a disc of seemingly randomly organised tracks which is pretty useless when trying to play in my dvd player as I cant browse by album.

If the footage was shot in NTSC and they want PAL, you'll need to convert. JES Deinterlacer is an excellent (and free) tool for that. Just export from iMovie, then convert to DV PAL.
If you have Toast, make sure you select "DATA DISC" and "MAC & PC", then just drag the video files into the window. Remember that DV PAL is roughly 13 GB/h, so you can fit about 15 min max onto an SL DVD.
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When I insert a blank CD-R in my Superdrive(tm), the blank disk appears on my desktop, making it easy to drag and drop files to it to be burned.
Blank DVD+R discs don't show up on my desktop, however. Is that by design? I'm guessing I could still burn a DVD data disc by using a burn folder, correct? Is there a better way?
I know the disks I'm using are compatible with the Superdrive because I've successfully burned DVD movies to those disks using iDVD.
Thanks.

It is possible that when you insert a blank DVD, it is set to open up in a specific application (maybe iDVD). Open up system preferences, click on "CD & DVDs" and make sure that the category "When you insert a blank DVD", the drop down menu is on "Ask what to do" so that you have the option of opening it in the finder.

Select multiple playlists for burning to DVD Data disc?

Hi, i need to burn about 5 playlists to a DVD Data Disc for temp backup, iTunes only is allowing me to select one playlist at a time. Of corse one play list is about 300 meg and this is totally wasteful of a DVD.
Anyone know how to burn multiple playlists to a single disc? maybe some other app can read iTunes's playlists and provide burning?
I want each playlist to create a self titled folder on disc with the tunes in each.
Thanks

Hi man, good idea.
Unfortunately, in iTunes, the "Burn Data Disc" button disappears when the folder is selected, in addition to the burn menu item. The burn button reappears when a single playlist inside the folder is selected, unfortunately again, more than one playlist cannot be selected.
It does appear iTunes can burn only 1 single playlist to a disc or the entire library and nothing in between which is very problematic for me right now.
Sadly the "Back Up to Disc" option in the File menu provides the following options :
"Back Up entire iTunes library and playlist"
"Back Up only iTunes Store purchases"
This appears also to be useless.
Toast 8 won't import exported iTunes XML playlists either and just burn the tracks in each playlist to a folder on the disk.
Suppose we need "iTunes Pro" to do something simple as I require :-((

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I'm trying to recover from an external drive holding over 1TB of my music files go down. I have 95 percent of the files copied to another drive, which is the good news.
I have several hundred other cd's to get back into the library. I didn't get to backing up many, so I'll have to re-rip, Grrrrr.... I have many cd's backed up on Data DVD (Apple Lossless files). My question is what is the easiest way to get these DVD Data cd's back into the library?
I know I may have to re-do the artwork and I don't use ratings etc. I just need to know if I can drag and drop the Data DVD's into my new library folder (on another ext. drive). Will Itunes auto magically match them to the album etc.? Or do I have to import album by album and go through it line by line. Itunes is back up and running but without the missing five percent of my music.
Maybe I should start another thread but I didn't use the newer method of the DVD restore/backup disc. I was aware of it but I didn't understand how to use it in my situation. I had over 1tb that I had copied to a backup drive. I would also make Data DVD's over the years, along the way as another backup. To make the backup/restore discs it doesn't seem to let you pick the files to put on it. You can only do the entire collection or items added or changed since last backup. My IMAC doesn't know what I did for my last backup. I dragged and dropped from one hard drive to another without using Time Machine etc.
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Do these files still exist in the iTunes library or did you have to re-create that too?
If they do exist there then you can copy the files to the new location but will then have to re-link the files one by one from the library to the new location (so the ! disappears).
If they are not in the library, or you don't mind losing some information such as playlist association, rathings, and playcount, you can copy them to the drive, then drag the files to the iTunes library and basically re-add them as new tracks. You may then have to use scripts such as available on [Dougscripts|http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scriptcount.php?sortBy=Name& op=y] to clear your library of duplicates which are hte old unlinked file references.

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it works fine using a live cd, but not in arch
im using a custom kernel and i dont think anything was missed in terms of support
i can only test this on one box since it has my dvd rom and dvd burner on it
the disc is fine and can be read ok by more than one machine, just not my arch box where I actually want it to work.
I searched the forums and have already asked in the channel but either no one has a dvd burner or has not tried this.
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btw, it is just mp3's on the data disc

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none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults,mode=666 0 0
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/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cd2 iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
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Burning & playing music burned on dvd data disc

after i burn a regular cdr in audio mode and i play the newly burned disc, i can change the format of the screen/playback by editing/amending the screen and right clicking on "copy play order" and it saves the changed settings each time i insert that cdr.....but.....when i do the same thing and copy wave music files to a dvd in data mode, when i insert the dvd after it's burnt, itunes will let me change the screen format (ie; name, song, year, album, rating, beats per minute) but when i right click on the inserted dvd, it doesn't give me the option to "copy play order" so i can save it to the disc.......any way around this??

sumofan wrote:
What I do not love is the Smartdrive being unable to correctly play music CDs (on this machine). I consistently get noise during the songs. I've tried many CDs, all the same.
why not rip the CD's (to _*Apple Lossless*_, for example), then add the files to iTunes and play them through iTunes ?
JGG

Creating DVD Data Disc to Share HD Video Files

Hi All,
I have a MacBook Pro and have created HD Videos using iMovie 09. I need to send the HD Video files to a company in India for them to be able to access and utilize the files. These are the parameters that they have sent me:
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Apple solved cd/dvd data burning in Leopard yet?

I've read with interest all the other folks who have had issues burning cds/dvds in Leopard. I was recently trying to burn dvd data discs with my backups of photographs and I've been getting the dreaded 0x8002006E error message at the very end of the verification step. When I put the discs back into the computer, they will not load and are kicked back out. I hope apple patches this soon as both my machines have Leopard and will have to find another machine to burn my backups apparently.

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ddrescue
If the disk is damaged, ddrescue might also be useful. To install ddrescue:
emerge ddrescue
To read the disk, or at least what can be read of it:
ddrescue /dev/dvd DVD.iso DVD.log
If ddrescue reports errors, try a second pass with direct disc access activated:
ddrescue -d -r1 /dev/dvd DVD.iso DVD.log
Example output:
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Initial status (read from logfile)
rescued: 0 B, errsize: 0 B, errors: 0
Current status
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I have a Mac Pro OS 10.7.5 and have a DVD+R disc with files on it, but it ejects the disk after about 10 seconds--what to do? How can I get the data off this disc? I can see it has been already burned, so files are on there?

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Try cleaning the lens and see if that will restore functionality to the DVD drive. Use a DVD lens cleaning disk, if you have a can of compressed air, shoot some into the slot or wrap a fine microfiber cloth (eyeglasses cleaning cloth) around a business card and insert it gently inside the slot.
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Hello! I just purchased a T500 with a regular old DVD burner (Optiarc DVD RW AD-7910S) and am having an issue with it. The problem is that it will read certain DVDs just fine (a Visual Studio DVD, for instance, worked just fine. As did a Vista Ultimate DVD). Unfortunately, other discs are not so fortunate. Anything that contains just plain old data files (such as a disc of log files, a disc with video files, etc) won't load at all. The drive will spin up, spin down, make a floppy disk reading clunking sound, and repeat the procedure.
So it seems that anything that comes from an ISO or an "official" source (Microsoft) works fine, but any time a disc was burned with Nero or the Windows burning thing(tm) it won't read at all. This doesn't apply to CDs, however, which seem to be working just fine.
Is this an easily fixable problem? Could it be a problem with the hardware? It doesn't seem like that would only stop it from reading data discs, but I'm no expert. I updated the firmware to the latest version available on the download site (actually I did that before trying any data discs, so I don't know if it was an issue with the old firmware). Is it possible that it didn't update properly or something? Would it be worth trying (or possible) to redo the firmware update or to revert to the old version to test? Forgive me if I'm sounding ignorant here.
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Total WAG: are your home-made data DVDs finalized? I think just about everything these days can handle mulit-session CDs, but IIRC there are some configurations that won't recognize multi-session DVDs.
Like I said, just a WAG.
Z.
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Dvd burn only creates data disc

recently I succesfully created an SD DVD which I first built and then formatted to a DVD. this disc played perfectly in my dvd player.
after this success I went ahead and created a new DVD but this time with HD footage (I changed the settings to HD in the preferences before starting the new project), and after following all of the same steps after formatting the dvd it is only read as a data disc in my dvd player.
studio pro shows "formatting succesfull" when finished in all cases
can anyone fill me in?
(as a side note.. when first creating the SD dvd, simply pressing the burn button also only created a data disc. it wasn't until I first built it and then formatted it that the dvd would play properly in my player)
thanks

Welcome to the boards
HD Discs will not play on regular SD players so when you changed to HD in the preferences it probably caused the issue
HD footage needs to be converted to SD m2v.
You must build your project before formatting the project, so if you formatted without a proper build somehow that could also cause a problem.

New Super Drive in iMac won't read DVD-R Data discs from windows machine.

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Someone had this problem earlier in the forum. No answer was posted. My Dell reads the dics fine. Stranger still, I hooked up an external LaCie 1394 DVD-R/RW+CD to the iMac to read the discs and got the same error. I hooked the same drive to my Dell and it read the same disc fine. Also, Dynex DVD+R and CD's work fine.
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No suggestion but maybe some sharing of your misery. I bought a new 24" iMac 2.8 ghz on 2/24. Two hours after purchase, I put a DVD in the slot and nothing. Twenty five minutes with tech support, trying several different options to eject the disk, got me nowhere. They told me I would have to bring the machine in for repair. I did that, and magically, the DVD player is recognized when he (at the Apple store) boots the machine and it ejects the disk. He said the machine was fine. I said that it wasn't if I had to take the computer for a ride in my truck every time the optical drive doesn't work.
I'm waiting for a diagnostic to be run but I have my doubts about support in this area. I believe that Apple will say that they found nothing wrong and it's user error (not hardly, but it's probably easier than fixing the bug with the optical drives). This is my first ride with a Mac and I expected it to be wonderful. It's not a very smooth ride so far.

I am trying to burn a backup data disc from an iTunes playlist of 4.61GB onto a blank DVD of 4.7GB and it keeps telling me the playlist is too big.???

I am trying to burn a backup data disc from an iTunes playlist of 4.61GB onto a blank DVD of 4.7GB and it keeps telling me the playlist is too big.???

You keep asking variants on this same question. You've had replies in all your other threads. If you can't find them, go here and click where it says Activity:
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Burned Dvd reads DATA DISC when I try to play it on TV

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