Review DVD-Audio Solo $35.00 (Now $45) DVDA Authoring

[doccbst]

Ive been using DVD+R so no help there-and also using 6 channel interleaved wave files which solo easily recognised--Under help files-more information for the curious ?? heres what they say copy/paste from file: (the _FR _FL is the key and is mandantory naming for solo to identify and merge tracks together)

Importing multi-channel tracks from a set of mono files
Importing multi-channel tracks into Solo will depend how you prepared them, according to either of 2 methods :
a) All channels are merged into a single .wav file
In this case, simply drag & drop this file from the File Explorer View to the Project View, or click it in the File Explorer View. The import panel will display the number of channels of the audio file, from 1 to 6.
b) Each channel from the multi-channel track is a single mono .wav file.

This method is used by some professional authoring software. To illustrate, let's take an example with a 6 channels track. The 6 mono files are my6chantrack_FL.wav for Front Left, my6chantrack_FR.wav for Front Right, my6chantrack_C.wav for Center, my6chantrack_LFE.wav for LFE, my6chantrack_SL.wav for Surround Left, my6chantrack_SR.wav for Surround Right. To import them in one operation, proceed like case a) and drag & drop or click one file from the set (anyone will do, e.g. my6chantrack_C.wav) AND set the output channel count to 6 in the Import panel to tell Solo there are 5 other files in the set. Solo will determine the root name of each file (in this case my6chantrack). It will then append the right postfix, from the following set {_FL, _FR, _C, _LFE, _SL, _SR} to calculate the set of file paths. Make sure you follow this naming convention. Lastly, Solo will prepend an indicator (6) in front of the track title to remind this is a merged track.

The following channels arrangement is expected :

1 channel : mono
2 channels : stereo
3 channels : FL, FR, LFE
4 channels : FL, FR, SL, SR
5 channels : FL, FR, SL, SR, LFE
6 channels : FL, FR, SL, SR, C, LFE

of course you have to modify for quad 4 channel but I left info as is for all concerned--hope this helps-doccbst

[MC Maniac]

I have been playing with this program for a few days..

My goal is to be able to convert DTS 5.1 tracks that are 2.0 16/44 WAV files into 5.1 24/96 DVD-Audio discs..playable on the external DVD-A player..

Solo does recognize and burn onto DVD-R..

I get an error n203 code

The DVD-r does get recognized as a dvd-a disc by my player - it starts loading Group 1 and just hangs..

If solo won't do this, I'm willing to buy Discwelder bronze or steel - not Chrome as it's too expensive..