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Help with .cda & .wav file associations!!???

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Sydekar

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My computer is now reading audio on music cd's as .cda files now instead of .wav files like it used to. It's only a problem because I use Easy Cd Pro 95 burning software. Rather than switch between discs I like to use the copy .wav to hard drive option. Sort the songs accordingly and then burn the disc. I'm unable to do that now since the computer is now reading them as .cda which Easy Cd Pro will show but not read. What's even more strange is that I can create an image file of the songs I want (but I can't alter the order of the songs because it's one whole image). Yet when the image is made the files end up showing as .wav!!!!

Any of you tech savvy people have a clue how I can switch everything back to reading audio discs as .wav files?
 
Audio CDs are always stored in .cda format. You can store them as .wav files, but then regular audio CD players won't be able to play them. Also, playing them as .wav files causes your computer to read the entire file and then play it, whereas an audio CD format will play directly to the sound card with no burden on your processor.

For you 'strange' problem: when you extract the audio CD, your computer converts them into .wav files so that you can manipulate them. There's nothing strange about that.
 
Ok, well this is the deal. I've always been able to make audio compilations in my burning programs before. Now that it's reading the files on the cd's as .cda, however, I can't. I get a message that the option only supports burning .wav, .mp3, and .iso files. This switch to having cd's audio files read as .cda is kind of crazy if one can no longer make audio compilations in the burning proggys. FYI, I've used Sony Cd Extreme, Easy Cd Pro 95, Easy Cd Creator 4.01 and none of them will do it now. I have a Plextor 40x scsi reader and a Panasonic 7502b scsi burner using an Adaptec 2930CU controller.
 
Oh ok... If you want to extract the .cda files, you need a "CD ripper." There are a bunch of shareware/freeware CD rippers out there that will convert them to .wav files. I don't use any of them myself, but they shouldn't be too hard to find.

Then when you want to burn them, just compile a list of all the .wav files in your burning program and burn them to an Audio CD format.
 
Just in case you haven't been successful or can't decide on which ripper, I would opt for Audio Grabber. It does the job for me just great.

 
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