Surround mix to audio CD

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What do I need to do in order to get my surround mix on a CD. Do I need some kind of encoder? Do I need a special CD burner, or possibly a DVD burner? I'm stuck...
 
I have asked that question here afew times and have never got any answers. You can't have a surround mix on a cd because there are no burners/players that could burn/read it also you could probaly only fit about 10 minutes on it of 5.1 if it were at all possible. So you can see that is why dvd's are used for sourround encoded files, 4.5 gigs of space compared to 800 megabites. You will need at least a dvd burner and the proper software. Check out this link... www.dvdrhelp.com

If you find out anything more let me know.
 
I know a little about this, and in addition asked my computer buddy about it and basically when your talking surround sound on a disc you are talking about one of two things. One is on a DVD and standard DVD burners can do this although if I remember right there is some extra software that you have to purchase to enable 5.1 surround to be pressed to CD (at least with SX, and if I'm wrong on this please let me know by posting it here). The other way (which I think is what your getting at) is a Super Audio CD (SACD) which is what the reissue of the 30th anniversary edition of "Dark Side of the Moon" did. Surround sound on a CD, but it actually is listed as a SACD. Neither my friend, nor I know how they make SACD, but we are both pretty damn positive you can't do it on your run of the mill CD burner. The truth is neither of us are sure if it is relate to the burner or the program.

Maybe others can add info. HOpe this helped in some way.
 
In regards to the recent DSOTM release here is the scoop. The disc pretty much comes with the standard SACD features, it is a dual layer disc, one layer is the the SACD surround format and the other layer is your standard stereo 44.1 / 16 bit CD format that can be played on normal cd players. However to listen to the SACD content you will need a SACD player.
 
As far as I know,
You cannot not burn surround sound music on a normal audio CD.
It can only be written in stereo.
DVD and SACD are currently the only ways I know that can do it.
I looked into VCD's and they cannot contain 5.1 surround only stereo.

Anyway, I spose DVD-Music is probably the only option for us Home Recordists
Scott
 
It's certainly possible. I've did it several times on cdr before i got my DVD burner. Your audio software needs to be able to mix 5.1. Then you need to be able to export it as 6 seperates waves or 1 wave that is encoded as dobly digital.

The encoded wave file wont play back properly unless you have a dolby digital encoder. If you try and play it back on a system without dolby digital it'll just be very loud white noise.

Tukkis:D
 
Tukkis - What did you play that back through? I didn't think there was anyway around using a Dolby decoder on the master.
 
What did you play that back through
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My A/V receiver

I didn't think there was anyway around using a Dolby decoder on the master.
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After exporting the mix from CEP as a 6 channel wave I had to use the Surcode encoder in Adobe Premiere to encode it as an AC3 format file.

Then I used a program called BeSweet to convert the AC3 file to a dolby digital wave file. It fools the audio burning software into thinking that its a stereo file so you can burn it as an audio cdr. The file actually contains embedded information so when you play it back on a dolby digital decoder it reads this and converts it back to 5.1 for your speakers.

Again dont try and play the final file without a dolby digital decoder as it will be very loud white noise.

Tukkis:)
 
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