Hey guys! Thank you for stopping by and watching the video! A small correction: at 05:16, the symbol after "ISRC" should be "=" not "|". So it should be "ISRC=1234567890". If you want to read a more in-depth tutorial about DDP files making and CD specifications, you can check out my blog post: tinyurl.com/makeddp You can download the REAPER DDP template there too!
@@JamesZhan YAH thanks for posting about it - another quick question: How do I credit the producer on my album - its a EDM/pop album where I wrote the chords and melodies and lyrics - but the producer did all of the instrumentation and track building so its a very notable artistic contribution and want to make sure to credit him properly - would ARRANGER= be the appropriate tag - or SONGWRITER= , or could I put PRODUCER= ?
Hello, Independent musician here. I've -done by now like a thousand tracks in Cubase, Sonar, Soundforge bvefore, Bitwig now. Mixed (and sometimes mistered) almost all of my 12 albums. But I've never had to create a DDP project up until yesterday when I had to deliver one to a CD label. I've had no idea how to do it (actually, I've never heard about DDP before) and I was severely time-constrained. Your tutorial helped me doing it in like half an hour and deliver safely and on time to the CD printer so the albums will be ready for the albume release concert next month. Can't thank you enough!
@@JamesZhan could you help me understand two things, please? I'm trying to figure out if adding both UPC and EAN to album metadata will result in any sort of error, or they both can simply be there? The other thing is about the MESSAGE attribute: is it a good place to store information about the label?
@@erwinmagielda Yeah I don't think it would be a good idea to add two barcodes for the album. You are better off picking one. You should be able to add some brief info on the MESSAGE attribute. Keep it short though. I can't recall if there's a character limit.
Fantastic tutorial, I made some DDP's with reaper before and remembered it as quite annoying so I was not too stoked about making a new master as DDP (the music I record rarely gets put on CD, more commonly Vinyl or Tape). This is a great tutorial, short guide that just works. I was gonna point out the missing = in the example in the video but I see you pinned that already. I'd like to add that reaper also can play the ddp image file so that you can actually check it proper before sending it off, just drag the IMAGE.DAT into reaper and it will show with meta data and be playable. subbed
Thank you so much. Such an easy way to complete the process. It really helped me out while being in a hurry. I checked it with a ddp player and everything was done correctly, the metadata was compiled perfectly.
Amazing video my friend. So clear, so precise and so effective!! I'd never even heard of DDP till a few days ago when my CD manufacturer asked for the masters in DDP format and I was sitting here scratching my head, haha. Thank you so much.
Question? With the markers for the tracks? so i have a 10 track album but if i put a marker at the beginning and one at the end that gives me 12 markers which surely would be read on the cd as 12 no?? Can you break it down a bit please with regards to markers. Would it be that the lazer will only read from 2 to 10 then??
Important note. If your CD manufacturer doesn't accept marker data or you don't need or want to include this stuff per track, you must at least have the # sign in the marker description otherwise reaper will ignore it and you'll get a ddp file that is one track the length of your album. The end of disc marker must have the @ sign in it as a minimum, and the start mark is the ! sign. Also you can get a free ddp very basic 'player' that will open the DDP file. That's one of the more scary things about DDP in that no one has a ddp player in their car or on their phone. it's just a scary file that could say anything, and you could send off to production with errors in it.
@JamesZhan thanks for the video tutorial, a couple of questions: why there is no sound in the rendered file? ...how can i check that it is working properly?
James, you rule! Fantastic video! My question is, what is the proper way to add a second COMPOSER to the metadata? Do I separate each COMPOSER by "|COMPOSER=" or ?
Great tutorial! Thanks a lot! Do I have to snap each clip to full seconds? Because if I don't then adding markers doesn't snap the markers to full seconds and I have to zoom in to frames to kind of set them correctly at the beginning of each clip. Thanks.
Thank you for one of the few truly informative and useful TH-cam videos out there. Well made also, by the way! Just one question: Why when rendering do you choose "Full Speed Offline"? Isn 't it safer to go with slower speeds, even at "x1"? Because when I burn CDs to send to some third person to make the DDPs, they always tell me to burn them at "x1" speed if possible, to avoid any digital errors. Doesn 't this apply to rendering from Reaper also?
OMG this is amazing!!! thank you so much, this is such a lifesaver!! I've just got one question: is it important that the markers for the tracks are set perfectly on the frame-grid or can i set them in between frames, just the way i exported my masters? because some songs transition into the next, and i want those transitions to be as spot on and perfect as possible. Thanks in advance, and thanks for posting this Video in general!! Janini Pizzicato from Xenocracy
Great tutorial! I have one question for you; I notice that when you showed the sample track metadata, the order you used to input the metadata was TrackName/Performer/ISCR/Composer. Does this order matter? For example, what would happen if I input the metadata in the following order: TrackName/ISCR/Composer/Performer? Thanks!
Reaper works well as a two-track editor? I'm not surprised. Reaper gets a lot of love from a lot of other pro engineers in my circles. I'll try this. There are no great 2-track editors out there for any platform. I have tried every one of them. Forever, I used Bias Peak to make .sd2f files Jam Image files. I dropped in regions, named the tracks, and then I imported and and burned the images in Toast to send off for duplication. It was SO easy, and insanely accurate to use. Then, BIAS-Inc disappeared. Their ghostly website still sells Peak. They ask some ridiculous $148 price for a Peak 6 license, and they offer zero support. They're freakin nuts. Pleased to meet you! I wish every tutorial on TH-cam was as short and valuable as your video is here. New sub! Thank you! Have a fantastic day!
@@schoepsms It does, and the dev has been supporting it for 30+ years. I kinda want to buy it just to support his dedication, and I'll probably buy a Reaper license, too. Jam, Toast & Peak were the bomb, though. Final mastering used to be fun for me, and now it's a pain. FWIW, Toast still kicks ass for final assembly, and if you're looking to turn in a burned CD-R to the dupe plant, Toast can't be beat. It has fades, crossfades, and supports AU plugins too. If you can work without looking at waveforms, it's great, and it does have meters. Load your track files, set your final levels, fades and gaps, lay in ISRC, UPC & Text items, and you're off to the races. Toast burns Red Book Audio. Good stuff. Not ruined yet 😂 Cheers! Pleased to meet you!
Hey great video thank you. Any suggestions regarding setting the master output levels in reaper (bottom left corner). Does Reaper take the levels from your imported master tracks or do you have to set levels again in reaper? Thanks.
This is exactly why I made this tutorial. Everyone says get HOFA DDP Maker. It does have more functionalities and it is easier, but many people might just need to do this once, and for that, Reaper is perfect for this!
Hi James, I have a few CDs that have songs hidden before the pregap. I’ve always wanted to do something like that, I think it’s a nice hidden bonus for fans. Is it possible to do that with REAPER?
Hello. Great tutorial🚀🚀. I did it step by step just like you. and it totally worked. I wanted to check before sending if everything is correct, but vlc does not open the file. any suggestions ?
Hi James what's the real-world maximum length for a CD? Your video says 75 minutes. But...I'm an artist with several CD's that are 78-79 minutes in duration. Their DDP's were made by other professionals (not me) in years past. Now as 2021 begins (with reduced budget, social distancing, and learning the power of Reaper) I want to create the DDP for my next album myself on Reaper. (Marketing plug: the album title is "Guard Over America", much needed here in the USA at this time). This will be my first time to make my own DDP. In your video you state that the maximum length should be 75 minutes. But all my other albums of 78-79 minutes in length have been pressed by plants in India, Singapore, Canada, US, Philippines, etc without any problem. So what is the "real-world" maximum length? And will all the replicators accept that length, or do I have to "shop around" to choose a replicator that is willing to make a CD of say 79 minutes? Thanks. Your videos are superb man.
The maximum length is 79 minutes and 59 seconds. The reason why it is usually recommended to no go over 75 minutes is that some CD players will not be able to play the data at the very end of the disc.
@@JamesZhan Thanks for explaining. Can you suggest what's a "safe duration" so that those 'cheaper' CD players will still be able to read the data at the very end of the disc? How much space is allocated "at the end of the disc" for said data in the red book specs? (I assume it's just binary data, right?) If I have 20 song titles with artist and ISRC, that equals 2,000-3,000 characters max, so what else is taking up the 5minutes worth of data space? Thanks for your help.
Hi, is there a way to check if the attrubutes were written correctly? Its the first time Im sending a cd for production.. so i wantd tp double check but the thing is if I use the same project and render a cue cd they are compeltely out of space and have nothing to do with what I entered as metadata..
Unfortunately, there's no way to test the DDP files with REAPER. The good thing is, if you've followed the steps to the exact, the DDP files will be all good to go. I have received messages from many people saying that they followed my video to create their DDP files that turned out to be working as expected. :)
Thanks for the great tutorial! Where can I find a complete list of metadata that can be used in song and album descriptions? In the video you don't use for example: release date, publisher, etc.
Hi! Thank you so much for this tutorial. I am about to master + prepare a DDP file for a client and was wondering how I get the ISRC + UPC codes from them. Is it standard nowadays for the artist to take their master files, digitally distribute them and then come back to me with their IRSC/UPC codes?
Great tutorial, thanks! In case I need to make DDP for CD printing, could you please specify in which bit-depth (16/24) my WAV files should be when uploading to REAPER? Is it possible to select between them in REAPER?
And another household here saved by your generosity ! 😂 Thank you so much, James !! ❤ One question : my album is edited in Japan so i have no UPC code but a JAN code (13 digits, like EAN). I guess it's just fine to enter the JAN code but i was wondering if you ever heard about any issues regarding Japanese albums ... Wondering if it will still be a valid DDP file if i enter JAN=************* instead of UPC=************
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Hi James, I followed this great tutorial to the letter but the render file is not playing in my DDP player. I have another set of DDP files that play no problem in the player.
I don’t think you can add the UPC after you created the DDP files, but don’t quote me on that. Most online distribution services like CD Baby and Distrokid will generate ISRC and UPC for you when you upload your songs to streaming platforms.
Thanks for the help!! Nice tutorial!! However I have a question. When I verified my DDP generated image files with ddpinfo, it seems as if the ISRC code of the first song is linked at the 0 sec marker instead of the 2 sec marker. Is this ok?
Hey guys! Thank you for stopping by and watching the video! A small correction: at 05:16, the symbol after "ISRC" should be "=" not "|". So it should be "ISRC=1234567890".
If you want to read a more in-depth tutorial about DDP files making and CD specifications, you can check out my blog post: tinyurl.com/makeddp
You can download the REAPER DDP template there too!
I was wondering about it, thanks for the info and great tutorial!
Yup, I tought so :) Anyway, thanks for the video tutorial !
omg so glad i saw this! Was scrolling for clarity - thanks for it!
@@katiekrawczyk3804 Glad you saw it! haha
@@JamesZhan YAH thanks for posting about it - another quick question: How do I credit the producer on my album - its a EDM/pop album where I wrote the chords and melodies and lyrics - but the producer did all of the instrumentation and track building so its a very notable artistic contribution and want to make sure to credit him properly - would ARRANGER= be the appropriate tag - or SONGWRITER= , or could I put PRODUCER= ?
Hello, Independent musician here. I've -done by now like a thousand tracks in Cubase, Sonar, Soundforge bvefore, Bitwig now. Mixed (and sometimes mistered) almost all of my 12 albums. But I've never had to create a DDP project up until yesterday when I had to deliver one to a CD label. I've had no idea how to do it (actually, I've never heard about DDP before) and I was severely time-constrained. Your tutorial helped me doing it in like half an hour and deliver safely and on time to the CD printer so the albums will be ready for the albume release concert next month. Can't thank you enough!
So happy my video was helpful!! Appreciate the tip!
So many mastering tutorials on TH-cam, but nobody talks about preparing masters for distribution. Thanks!
It's an important step!
I come back to this tutorial whenever I need a DDP made. It's by far the best one you'll be able to find! Thank you James.
Great to hear that!
@@JamesZhan could you help me understand two things, please? I'm trying to figure out if adding both UPC and EAN to album metadata will result in any sort of error, or they both can simply be there? The other thing is about the MESSAGE attribute: is it a good place to store information about the label?
@@erwinmagielda Yeah I don't think it would be a good idea to add two barcodes for the album. You are better off picking one. You should be able to add some brief info on the MESSAGE attribute. Keep it short though. I can't recall if there's a character limit.
@@JamesZhan thank you again!
This was exactly the tutorial I needed and was presented in a clear and simple way. Thank you so much James for sharing your knowledge with us!
I think there is a mistake in your MetaData example (5:17) - ISRC needs to have "=" after it and not a "|". Am I right about this?
man i am sending my album to manufacturer last minute and completely forgot about dpp, you're a lifesaver, thanks!
Fantastic tutorial, I made some DDP's with reaper before and remembered it as quite annoying so I was not too stoked about making a new master as DDP (the music I record rarely gets put on CD, more commonly Vinyl or Tape). This is a great tutorial, short guide that just works. I was gonna point out the missing = in the example in the video but I see you pinned that already.
I'd like to add that reaper also can play the ddp image file so that you can actually check it proper before sending it off, just drag the IMAGE.DAT into reaper and it will show with meta data and be playable.
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What is the best way to include a featured artist in the metada? In the title field, or in the performer field?
This wasn’t even anything I was needing to do but I still enjoyed it and learned a lot. Great tutorial!
Glad to hear!
Thank you so much. Such an easy way to complete the process. It really helped me out while being in a hurry. I checked it with a ddp player and everything was done correctly, the metadata was compiled perfectly.
Amazing video my friend. So clear, so precise and so effective!! I'd never even heard of DDP till a few days ago when my CD manufacturer asked for the masters in DDP format and I was sitting here scratching my head, haha. Thank you so much.
Thanks
Such a good tutorial, minimal hand holding, just all the information I needed and quickly. Thank you!
Man, this video is SO valuable! Thank you for doing this. It’s exactly what I needed right at this precise moment.
Glad you found it helpful!
Thanks!
Hey! Great video. Could you tell me how to format metadata if there are multiple performers/composers on a song?
Long shot... But what's the syntax to add multiple performers? Like Featurings. Thanks
Super, thank you so much. Where I get a ISRC code if the album is self produced?
Question? With the markers for the tracks? so i have a 10 track album but if i put a marker at the beginning and one at the end that gives me 12 markers which surely would be read on the cd as 12 no?? Can you break it down a bit please with regards to markers. Would it be that the lazer will only read from 2 to 10 then??
Important note. If your CD manufacturer doesn't accept marker data or you don't need or want to include this stuff per track, you must at least have the # sign in the marker description otherwise reaper will ignore it and you'll get a ddp file that is one track the length of your album. The end of disc marker must have the @ sign in it as a minimum, and the start mark is the ! sign.
Also you can get a free ddp very basic 'player' that will open the DDP file. That's one of the more scary things about DDP in that no one has a ddp player in their car or on their phone. it's just a scary file that could say anything, and you could send off to production with errors in it.
Great video, thanks! I just didn't get what the marker at the beginning is for? Can you explain why it's needed?
@JamesZhan thanks for the video tutorial, a couple of questions: why there is no sound in the rendered file? ...how can i check that it is working properly?
James, you rule! Fantastic video! My question is, what is the proper way to add a second COMPOSER to the metadata? Do I separate each COMPOSER by "|COMPOSER=" or ?
prolly just wiht a semicolon or comma
Man you rock! Straight to the point, very pro video shooting.. What else could we dream of?! Thanks a million!
Excellent! Thank you! You made two middle aged men very happy today :)
This was so helpful. Especially with the template. Well done.
Valeu!
best tutorial available today. You are a life saver, bro
Glad you find it helpful!
Great tutorial! Thanks a lot! Do I have to snap each clip to full seconds? Because if I don't then adding markers doesn't snap the markers to full seconds and I have to zoom in to frames to kind of set them correctly at the beginning of each clip. Thanks.
Really great video thank you! Is there a way to add album artwork somewhere for example when someone is importing the album into iTunes library?
I don't think you can add album artwork in DDP files unfortunately!
Great Video ..Thank you.!.. How can I generate a PQ sheet for this?
Thank you for one of the few truly informative and useful TH-cam videos out there. Well made also, by the way!
Just one question: Why when rendering do you choose "Full Speed Offline"? Isn 't it safer to go with slower speeds, even at "x1"? Because when I burn CDs to send to some third person to make the DDPs, they always tell me to burn them at "x1" speed if possible, to avoid any digital errors. Doesn 't this apply to rendering from Reaper also?
Made a succesful DDP master using your tutorial, thanks so much!
So glad to hear that! Congrats!
OMG this is amazing!!! thank you so much, this is such a lifesaver!!
I've just got one question: is it important that the markers for the tracks are set perfectly on the frame-grid or can i set them in between frames, just the way i exported my masters? because some songs transition into the next, and i want those transitions to be as spot on and perfect as possible.
Thanks in advance, and thanks for posting this Video in general!!
Janini Pizzicato from Xenocracy
you did a wonderful job with this, James. Thank you!
This is so great. Reaper just keeps delivering for me.
Really saved the day for me. Thanks so much James. I really appreciate you taking the time to do this.
Lukas
If I'm understanding correctly, HOFA optimizes for Vinyl releases and ADM's, how does Reaper stack up in this regard?
Great tutorial! I have one question for you; I notice that when you showed the sample track metadata, the order you used to input the metadata was TrackName/Performer/ISCR/Composer. Does this order matter? For example, what would happen if I input the metadata in the following order: TrackName/ISCR/Composer/Performer? Thanks!
Absolutely brilliant tutorial. Thank you 🙌
Reaper works well as a two-track editor? I'm not surprised. Reaper gets a lot of love from a lot of other pro engineers in my circles. I'll try this. There are no great 2-track editors out there for any platform. I have tried every one of them. Forever, I used Bias Peak to make .sd2f files Jam Image files. I dropped in regions, named the tracks, and then I imported and and burned the images in Toast to send off for duplication. It was SO easy, and insanely accurate to use. Then, BIAS-Inc disappeared. Their ghostly website still sells Peak. They ask some ridiculous $148 price for a Peak 6 license, and they offer zero support. They're freakin nuts.
Pleased to meet you! I wish every tutorial on TH-cam was as short and valuable as your video is here. New sub! Thank you! Have a fantastic day!
DSP Quattro is a two track editor and can create DDP files. It's $100 and worth the convenience.
@@schoepsms It does, and the dev has been supporting it for 30+ years. I kinda want to buy it just to support his dedication, and I'll probably buy a Reaper license, too. Jam, Toast & Peak were the bomb, though. Final mastering used to be fun for me, and now it's a pain. FWIW, Toast still kicks ass for final assembly, and if you're looking to turn in a burned CD-R to the dupe plant, Toast can't be beat. It has fades, crossfades, and supports AU plugins too. If you can work without looking at waveforms, it's great, and it does have meters. Load your track files, set your final levels, fades and gaps, lay in ISRC, UPC & Text items, and you're off to the races. Toast burns Red Book Audio. Good stuff. Not ruined yet 😂 Cheers! Pleased to meet you!
Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks James. Liked & Subscribed!
This video was very helpful, thank you so much.
Hey James, you are a genius I was searching for this in all the web tks a lot
This is much appreciated brother, thank you!
James thanks, this is really concise and well done.
very helpful, did it for my new album, 18 songs, maybe 30-60 mins work! easy, thank you!
Hey great video thank you. Any suggestions regarding setting the master output levels in reaper (bottom left corner). Does Reaper take the levels from your imported master tracks or do you have to set levels again in reaper? Thanks.
At this stage, the files should all be mastered. So you shouldn't need to touch the master fader in REAPER.
@@JamesZhan Brilliant. Thanks. That is what I was hoping but thought i'd better check!
How do I get the metadata information???
this is such a lifesaver. everything else i saw said i needed to spend a ton of money to do this. thank you so much!!
This is exactly why I made this tutorial. Everyone says get HOFA DDP Maker. It does have more functionalities and it is easier, but many people might just need to do this once, and for that, Reaper is perfect for this!
That was an absolutely excellent tutorial. Hell yea buddy thank you.
Great Job man. Thx a lot. Exactly what I searching for
Your video inspired me to create a DDP.
Thank you so much. I have one question: how do you check if the created DDP is working properly?
Thank you for this! Cheers!
Hi James,
I have a few CDs that have songs hidden before the pregap. I’ve always wanted to do something like that, I think it’s a nice hidden bonus for fans. Is it possible to do that with REAPER?
Hello. Great tutorial🚀🚀. I did it step by step just like you. and it totally worked. I wanted to check before sending if everything is correct, but vlc does not open the file. any suggestions ?
Hi, at the metadata point, I notice track 1 is "ID:2". Is the ID not the track number? Thanks.
Hi thanks for the tutos have a question though how to make a ddp with one longtrack didved in 3 parts (prog rock 😁) thanks again
This is pure gold, thanks for sharing!
My pleasure!
I can't thank you enough! This was so kind of you
Hi James what's the real-world maximum length for a CD? Your video says 75 minutes. But...I'm an artist with several CD's that are 78-79 minutes in duration. Their DDP's were made by other professionals (not me) in years past. Now as 2021 begins (with reduced budget, social distancing, and learning the power of Reaper) I want to create the DDP for my next album myself on Reaper. (Marketing plug: the album title is "Guard Over America", much needed here in the USA at this time). This will be my first time to make my own DDP. In your video you state that the maximum length should be 75 minutes. But all my other albums of 78-79 minutes in length have been pressed by plants in India, Singapore, Canada, US, Philippines, etc without any problem. So what is the "real-world" maximum length? And will all the replicators accept that length, or do I have to "shop around" to choose a replicator that is willing to make a CD of say 79 minutes? Thanks. Your videos are superb man.
The maximum length is 79 minutes and 59 seconds. The reason why it is usually recommended to no go over 75 minutes is that some CD players will not be able to play the data at the very end of the disc.
@@JamesZhan Thanks for explaining. Can you suggest what's a "safe duration" so that those 'cheaper' CD players will still be able to read the data at the very end of the disc? How much space is allocated "at the end of the disc" for said data in the red book specs? (I assume it's just binary data, right?) If I have 20 song titles with artist and ISRC, that equals 2,000-3,000 characters max, so what else is taking up the 5minutes worth of data space? Thanks for your help.
Thanks a million, easy, quick and clear tutorial. Exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks James... brilliant tutorial. Earned my subscription in a heartbeat. Cheers!
Added to favourites. Great tutorial!
Thanks a million for this perfect tutorial!
really grateful for this tutorial mate 🙏 really helped me out in a pinch!
Can u make a video on mastering audio file for music cd printing
Awesome Tutorial man... So easy to follow and worked perfectly. Thanks so much.
Damn mate you're a hero. Most useful tutorial video I have ever used in my life.
Hi, is there a way to check if the attrubutes were written correctly? Its the first time Im sending a cd for production.. so i wantd tp double check but the thing is if I use the same project and render a cue cd they are compeltely out of space and have nothing to do with what I entered as metadata..
Unfortunately, there's no way to test the DDP files with REAPER.
The good thing is, if you've followed the steps to the exact, the DDP files will be all good to go. I have received messages from many people saying that they followed my video to create their DDP files that turned out to be working as expected. :)
@@JamesZhan a friend checked it with Sonoris and it works! Thanks for your reply ams dor the hack itself!
If you use studio one 5, you can also create ddp from within the project page
Thank youuu!
Great stuff mate. Very helpful thanks.
You are welcome! Glad it helped!
Thanks a lot James, this was very clear and helpfull!!!
That was perfect! Thank you so much! Life saver! You have angel energy
hey there James, great video here - most helpful - many thanks
You just saved me so much money my guy 🎉
Thanks for the great tutorial! Where can I find a complete list of metadata that can be used in song and album descriptions? In the video you don't use for example: release date, publisher, etc.
Thanks very much. Clear, to the point, fun to watch and listen to you, and thanks for the blog ref. and for the template - very useful.
Glad to hear!
How do I check if the Metadata I've written on it, is definitely represented properly?
thanks for this video. I refer to it everytime I have to make a DDP...
James, thanks for the video!!!! Great
You are welcome!
Hi! Thank you so much for this tutorial. I am about to master + prepare a DDP file for a client and was wondering how I get the ISRC + UPC codes from them. Is it standard nowadays for the artist to take their master files, digitally distribute them and then come back to me with their IRSC/UPC codes?
Yup that's how I've always done. Artists always get their ISRCs from distributors like CD Baby and Distrokid.
@@JamesZhan Is it pretty common that ISRC's get omitted from DDP's then?
@@genuinecellophane in the cases I’ve done, they all had ISRCs obtained from distributor sites to include in the DDP files.
Thank you for this tutorial. It was exactly what I needed.
Great tutorial, thanks!
In case I need to make DDP for CD printing, could you please specify in which bit-depth (16/24) my WAV files should be when uploading to REAPER?
Is it possible to select between them in REAPER?
It should be 16-bit for CD. You can choose the dither option when you render if your files are not 16 bit.
Is it possible to put the cover art in it?
Hi James. Thanks for this tutorial. A simple question: May I use the same markers data and template to burn a test cd before sending to factory?
Yup that's totally fine!
And another household here saved by your generosity ! 😂 Thank you so much, James !! ❤
One question : my album is edited in Japan so i have no UPC code but a JAN code (13 digits, like EAN).
I guess it's just fine to enter the JAN code but i was wondering if you ever heard about any issues regarding Japanese albums ...
Wondering if it will still be a valid DDP file if i enter JAN=************* instead of UPC=************
Hi James, I followed this great tutorial to the letter but the render file is not playing in my DDP player. I have another set of DDP files that play no problem in the player.
James, you're amazing. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
There is an option to convert into DDP in the reaper batch file converter tool.
Did you guys check that? Never tested it hehe
James! What if you're sending this to a printer who is going to add the upc? And where would a person obtain the ISRC?
I don’t think you can add the UPC after you created the DDP files, but don’t quote me on that. Most online distribution services like CD Baby and Distrokid will generate ISRC and UPC for you when you upload your songs to streaming platforms.
@@JamesZhan oh excellent i will double check my digital distributor for that info so I can send it off to the physical printer
Thanks for the help!! Nice tutorial!! However I have a question. When I verified my DDP generated image files with ddpinfo, it seems as if the ISRC code of the first song is linked at the 0 sec marker instead of the 2 sec marker. Is this ok?
Excellent job, James! Thanks a lot!
Great video. Thanks.
man, you really are GOAT!!! Thanks again!!!
Thanks for the excellent and concise tutorial!
A superb tutorial presented brilliantly. Great job!
Thank you so much, we make our last cd after see your tutorial, can we send?
If you follow my steps thoroughly, then yes you can send the DDF files off for printing.
@@JamesZhan We have follow all your steps, the disc is now on print, when It comes out I wanna send to you, just to say: "thank you very much!!!"