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A few weeks ago I had an Alpine W200 HU and the 701 processor installed. One of my goals is to burn my music onto DVD's without compression. Someone here (sorry I forgot who) told me to import/burn .wav files. I've tried this and apparently the HU doesn't support .wav files. I took the disc to the dealer where I bought the gear and it wouldn't play in ANY of the high end HU's. It only plays in computers as far as I can see. I tried contacting Alpine tech, but they're closed 'till Mon. Am I doing something wrong when burning? Do I need to use a different format? Please help. Martin
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Well, WAVs are half of the equation. You need to get it into a format that DVDs support naturally. All DVDs support AC3 and PCM. AC3 is compressed PCM doesn't have to be. Audio DVD creator is a software package that will do this but there may be other better solutions out there. Good Luck
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I just got off the phone with the Alpine tech. He said that the W200 HU does support .wav files. He suggested that I try burning the disc at the slowest speed the software allows. I'll give that a try and let you guys know how I make out. Thanks for the replies. Martin
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I burned a DVD at a rate of 6X and that didn't work either so I guess I'll pick up the Audio DVD Creator software you suggested SSSnake. Do you know how much it costs? Martin
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Alpine techs. say that the HU DOESN'T support .wav files (nor do any DVD HU's). They say the only way to burn .wav files to a DVD would be to use special software. Their comment was that they're not sure if the software exists. SSSnake is helping me with this and once I have the problem solved I'll let you guys know what works in case I'm not the only one trying to do this. Martin
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Alpine head units do not support .WAV files.
We have tested it on our various head units including the IVA-W200.
As mentioned above the only way to get truly uncompressed audio is - to burn a CD using a CD authoring program - to burn a DVD with an AC3 or PCM authoring program - rip your CD's into Apple Lossless onto your iPod and use the Full Speed Connection
Hope this helps...
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