Does the Z1 play MP3's burned onto DVD's?

No one tried this yet?

I have heard that it does not work.

It does not work. It gave me a Disc Invalid format

I have read elsewhere that you can use a program called Audio DVD Creator, and create an audio DVD from MP3's that can be used in the AVIC. They say that you have to navigate the tracks similar to how you navigate a DVD, which sucks. Apparently the avic is capable of playing mp3 dvd's, but pioneer didnt write that into the firmware...

Anyone know anything more?

justiz said:

I have read elsewhere that you can use a program called Audio DVD Creator, and create an audio DVD from MP3's that can be used in the AVIC. They say that you have to navigate the tracks similar to how you navigate a DVD, which sucks. Apparently the avic is capable of playing mp3 dvd's, but pioneer didnt write that into the firmware...

Anyone know anything more?

the only Pioneer unit that is gonna be able to do this is the new AVHP7800dvd

the only Pioneer unit that is gonna be able to do this is the new AVHP7800dvd

incorrect. audio dvd creator will make any dvd player play those music files. what audio dvd creator does is convert those mp3 files into vob files.. it makes the dvd player thinks its playing a DVD video disc, but only audio comes out of it. so any dvd player will work full of converted mp3 files.

Well thats a bummer. I'm surprised seeing how the Kenwood DDX-8017 natively supported it and that was last years model.

I just used Roxio's DVD Audio creator and it's really freakin' sweet. This is a great workaround and IMO better than most native MP3 reading HU's.

Hi Guys,

I used Ulead DVD Movie factory 4.0. There is an option to create an audio Only DVD-Video disc.

THis allows u to create a disc with ur mp3's in dolby digital 2.0 format. Keeps excact quality of mp3, and DD 2.0 files are a tad bigger....

works great. Only thign is u lose song title feature...

until dvd mp3's becomes available on this unit, its a nice work around...

Anonymous said:

Hi Guys,

I used Ulead DVD Movie factory 4.0. There is an option to create an audio Only DVD-Video disc.

THis allows u to create a disc with ur mp3's in dolby digital 2.0 format. Keeps excact quality of mp3, and DD 2.0 files are a tad bigger....

works great. Only thign is u lose song title feature...

until dvd mp3's becomes available on this unit, its a nice work around...

Try Roxios, you get song title, artist, genre and even album art. It's pretty slick.

REALLY?

I'm goign to purchase it when I get home...

When you say song title, artist, genre and even album art, does the unit see it as as a dvd video disc? or dvd audio disc?

Anonymous said:

REALLY?

I'm goign to purchase it when I get home...

When you say song title, artist, genre and even album art, does the unit see it as as a dvd video disc? or dvd audio disc?

REALLY?

I'm going to download a cracked copy when I get home.... :) Just kidding, I would never do that.

Anonymous said:

REALLY?

I'm goign to purchase it when I get home...

When you say song title, artist, genre and even album art, does the unit see it as as a dvd video disc? or dvd audio disc?

Yes, the unit sees it as a Video disc. If you'd like some screen shots let me know and I'll post them. You can use the track-next button to skip forward or backward in the song which is awesome. The only downside I've noticed so far is you cannot play a disc and navigate the disc at the same time. ie you can't start playing a song by band1 and then go search for band2 to find another song, when you start navigating the folders the music stops.

Ahh..

Makes sense...So in order to get this to work practically, you need the DVD Video mod so you can navigate while driving....?

Anonymous said:

Ahh..

Makes sense...So in order to get this to work practically, you need the DVD Video mod so you can navigate while driving....?

Yes, otherwise you will only get audio and you can use the track next/previous buttons to navigate songs. Here are some screenshots, the nice part is it's 4:3 so your navigation buttons on the right fit with the image fits perfect:

You can choose whichever theme you want, I chose this aqua-green one:






Notice the album art showing as well. I manually added that picture to the track but I think it will read images in the mp3...not sure though as I don't normally load my mp3's with images. You can also go into an "advance" edit mode for more control but I created this basic disc in about 2 minutes.

Does anyone know of any freeware that will burn mp3's onto a dvd as dd files to play back on the z1/2?