Question why when i go to cd on the i drive tv it says dvd but when i put one in it doesnt play it is there a way to activate it, there has to be or else y would they put it there.

 

Same here. Have you try to burn music to DVD disc?

 

Doesn't work!

 

Doesn't work!
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The Nav DVD drive will play music CD's if you have one in there so that's how you would select it.

 

Anybody try dual layer DVD's with music? I know mp3 will not work.

 

The Nav DVD drive will play music CD's if you have one in there so that's how you would select it.
[/quote]Really, or, are you doing a December April fool's joke?--like someone else perpetrated--funny though. If true, the sound doesn't come through the L7, or whatever, does it?

 

The Nav DVD drive will play music CD's if you have one in there so that's how you would select it.
[/quote]Really, or, are you doing a December April fool's joke?--like someone else perpetrated--funny though. If true, the sound doesn't come through the L7, or whatever, does it?
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No, not intended to be a joke, pretty sure it does, and plays as normal (as per the regular CD slot). The Nav drive won't play DVD audio discs or DTS discs (which is what I was *hoping* it did), but if I recall correctly you can play an audio CD from that drive.

 

vnod, you put some doubts in my mind so I just went out to the office car park to retest this and can confirm it's right, the Nav DVD drive indeed does play music CDs, it also supports CD-Text and yes, the L7 adjustments are also available.

What I would *like* to try is whether I can use something like Toast Titanium to burn standard .aiff CD audio files but onto a recordable DVD (i.e taking the capacity from around 640 MB to around 4.7 GB, effectively getting four or five CD's worth of music onto one disc.) Not sure if it's possible to do this (i.e. burn a DVD-R as though it were a CD-R) but if so it might come in handy.

 

The Nav DVD drive will play music CD's if you have one in there so that's how you would select it.
[/quote]Really, or, are you doing a December April fool's joke?--like someone else perpetrated--funny though. If true, the sound doesn't come through the L7, or whatever, does it?
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No, not intended to be a joke, pretty sure it does, and plays as normal (as per the regular CD slot). The Nav drive won't play DVD audio discs or DTS discs (which is what I was *hoping* it did), but if I recall correctly you can play an audio CD from that drive.
[/quote]Thanks swja.


OK, I am going to try it. And, you have a great idea. I think it can be done, but definitely am not positive. So, who needs MP3's anyway?--maybe. I was thinking of trying DVD Audios and SCAD's--with the first being more likely to work--but, ha ha on either. Do you think either type of disk is so thick that one would get stuck in the drive? I'll bet das would know if your idea will work--and about my disk question. I'll bet he will sense that his name has been taken in vain and chime in. OK, I'm starting my stopwatch.

 

The Nav DVD drive will play music CD's if you have one in there so that's how you would select it.
[/quote]Really, or, are you doing a December April fool's joke?--like someone else perpetrated--funny though. If true, the sound doesn't come through the L7, or whatever, does it?
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No, not intended to be a joke, pretty sure it does, and plays as normal (as per the regular CD slot). The Nav drive won't play DVD audio discs or DTS discs (which is what I was *hoping* it did), but if I recall correctly you can play an audio CD from that drive.
[/quote]Thanks swja.


OK, I am going to try it. And, you have a great idea. I think it can be done, but definitely am not positive. So, who needs MP3's anyway?--maybe. I was thinking of trying DVD Audios and SCAD's--with the first being more likely to work--but, ha ha on either. Do you think either type of disk is so thick that one would get stuck in the drive? I'll bet das would know if your idea will work--and about my disk question. I'll bet he will sense that his name has been taken in vain and chime in. OK, I'm starting my stopwatch.
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I don't think the disk thickness would be an issue, regular CD-R's work fine and DVD-R's are pretty identical in terms of dimensions (a double layer DVD-R might be a little thicker). The primary issue here is whether you could burn a DVD but have it read as through it were a CD. Toast on the mac lets you create a lot of stuff that you can't normally do with burnable media so I'm going to at least give it a whirl and see how I get on.