I have to admit to a fascination with audio and with DVD-Audio in particular. It’s a pity the format never really took off but it hasn’t stopped a few enterprising coders work out how to burn your own DVD-Audio discs on plain old ordinary DVD media that played in DVD-Audio players.

I developed a simple appliciation for PC User magazine back in 2005 that combined a number of tools to create DVD-Audio discs for a Pioneer DVD-Video/Audio player I bought that year.

DVD-Audio really is about as close as the audiophile can get to perfect audio quality especially with its 192kHz/24-bit stereo specification, leaving CD-Audio way behind.

Commercially, DVD-Audio is on its last legs but if you have a DVD-Audio player or DVD-Video player with DVD-Audio functionality, it’s a format that’s well worth looking into, particularly given that you can fit up to seven full-length CDs onto a single-layer DVD with full CD quality.

I’m probably wouldn’t recommend you go out an buy a DVD-Audio player now but if you have one, making your own DVD-Audio discs is actually pretty easy with the right tools.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be developing a user interface that ties all the processes together – encoding, authoring and burning. Check back on the “software” page, where I’ll update the release date of the tool (however, it will have to come after my monthly PC User schedule.)

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