Putting MP3's on the Nav DVD

phat · 14th December 2005, 04:04

Feeling clever one night, I decided to make a copy of the Nav DVD and put some MP3 songs on it too (there's about 100MB free after the nav data on a single-layer disc, and much more if you have dual-layer media). Guess what? The burned DVD works as a Nav DVD, but the stereo doesn't pick up the MP3s, as it would with a normal DVD of MP3s. This could be because I've placed the MP3s in too deep a directory (/Music/Album/...), but I doubt it. Anybody want to prove me wrong?

If the stereo can see the MP3s, it should be possible to play them at the same time as navigation since the data access for both is intermittent. Five gigs of MP3s would be so much better than 700MB!

Phat

Filthy Monkey · 14th December 2005, 10:09

Are you sure the stereo plays DVDs!? I know it will pick up MP3s, but from what I understand it can only read them from CD...

phat · 14th December 2005, 11:10

Yes, if you stick a DVD with MP3s into the DVD drive, the stereo will play the MP3s. Of course, this means you'll have to forego the nav. I was trying to burn an MP3 DVD that also contained the nav data, but it seems that once the system senses the nav data, it ignores the MP3s. Again, it could have been because my MP3s were in too deep a directory structure, but I haven't tried burning another nav DVD with MP3s stored closer to the root directory to test my hypothesis.