System will not read data dvd unless k3b is installed

[Old-Polack]

the idea of that technology wasn't put more songs, was put more quality on the song but also forcing you to buy a new audio system with a dvd drive replacing the cd-rom drive

So could it be done ......  multiple albums on an Audio DVD?

A single DVD-Audio disk is referred to as an Album. An Album can consist of up to 9 Groups, each containing up to 99 Tracks. In addition, the contents of the AUDIO_TS directory can contain references to objects in the VIDEO_TS directory (but not vice-versa).

http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/

[T6]

while you can put more songs this is only viable when it is a collection and since most of the music sold is singles or one cd album containing 12 to 20 songs this feature practically vanishes, as it did

anyway we are too far from the original post about k3b and dvd+rw not working

[ternor]

You have not said what you mean by a "DATA DVD"

Are you using 'true' RW with these disks so that dragging and dropping files onto an icon (for instance) causes the file to be written to the DVD?

What version of UDF are you using if so?

Have you all the needed packages installed for working with such DVDs?

I mean by "data dvd" a dvd that contains data rather than video or sound files.  The data has been of two kinds, compressed files/folders and images derived from an .iso file.  k3b has been starting and adding to multi-sessions generally and I also used it until a few months ago to burn from an iso.  I assume therefore that all necessary packages are installed.  The version of udf is 1.0.0-0.b3.2pclos2007 (the latest version apparently).

I didn't realise that disk drives needed cleaning.  That may be the problem.

[T6]

why?

can't you open the machine?

[ternor]

Yes, thanks.  Several DVD+RW disks have become unusable after burning by k3b.  Someone suggested it may be a hardware issue.

[Was_Just19]

afik no

the idea of such format was put 20 or similar amount of songs but with more quality

audio cds are pretty much abandoned now, audio dvds is the same

mp3 is what you have now

more on audio dvd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Audio

A single DVD-Audio disk is referred to as an Album. An Album can consist of up to 9 Groups, each containing up to 99 Tracks.

http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/

Seems there are tools to allow lots of HQ audio to be authored on a DVD.

The one thing that stood out when reading about this is the lengths Big Media went to, to try to prevent copying of content ....  to the point of disabling functions in the playback device!

One might conclude that the reason this never took off is that Big Media were afraid of it .....

regards.