Best way to handle music?

I am a high school yearbook adviser creating a high school yearbook dvd supplement. The dvd includes many things, video, photos, etc. This question relates to audio.
I have a "page" for a band. They have several tracks I'd like to include and I'm trying to determine the least expensive way (in terms of disc space) to handle this. I take it there is no way to play 3 minutes of audio without it ultimately being converted to three minutes of video, and therefore expanding a 6 MB song into a multiMB video.
Am I mistaken? or is there an efficient way to handle this?

heh... easy mistake to make. In DVDSP speak, a track is a structure that holds video, audio, subs and all that stuff.
So - you want the user to be presented with a menu where they can select multiple audio clips and have them play one after the other in sequence? What you are describing here is a 'jukebox' and you'll need to use scripting to accomplish this in DVDSP.
It is something I did some time ago now as a video jukebox, and the scripts are available free. What you'd need to do is to add images to a track and line them up with your audio samples. Treat them as a piece of video, if you like.
Alternatively, you could still do this with menus, so that the user goes from menu to menu instead of from video clip to video clip. However, don't forget that a DVD is only a valid DVD if it has at least one track on it (the DVD kind...) - you can miss out menus from a DVD, but you have to have a track somewhere in your structure. This could be a simple image as a start up item, of course.
As an example, have a look at the video jukebox here:
http://www.dvdstudiopro.co.uk/play-lists-and-jukeboxes/
You can download the projects and have a look at what has been done there.
As for your menu - the duration can be left out of things - make it a simple still image and not have any audio paying in the 'chooser' screen. From then on, if you embed audio in the menu then yes, you want to set the duration to be the same as the audio clip. If you use a track then this is far less of an issue, and will ultimately make your disc a more simple structure.

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