What is the difference between .cda and .wav? I can't get the .wav to play in my cd player.

[rnmcd]

What is the difference between .cda and .wav? I can't get the .wav to play in my cd player.

The thing is that I have Adaptec Easy CD Creator version 3.5c and it (as far as I can tell) doesn't have a way to convert .mp3s to .wav or .cda

Is that right or am I not using Easy CD Creator right?

Thanks!

 

[y00ycdz]

I haven't used EZ CD Creater in a long time...but as i can remember, you convert mp3's to wav, then add wavs to your audio cd layout. Or if you can get your hands on nero, just use nero's mp3 to audio cd thingy....just add mp3's to your cd layout and it converts as it burns....thats what I use, very rarely though...

[edit] I think I remember converting the mp3's first to wav using winamp or another decoding program....not with EZ CD... [/edit]

 

[Sugadaddy]

huh, just burn it as an Audio CD. (maybe you'll have to convert them to wav first)


And I'd recommend a real burning software, like Nero.

 

[yakko]

You should use Nero to burn them to CD.

 

[OS]

You can't burn a data CD and fill it with .wav files and play it in a CD player.

There should be a write option in your burning software for "Audio CD", which burns the wavs as an audio CD.

 

[technogeeky]

Hmm.

I think .cda is a 'fake' file extension to create 'file structure' for Music CD's.

That represents a track on a Music CD, no?

Yell at me if I'm wrong.

 

[rnmcd]

^

 

[Rakkis]

it seems you're burning the wavs as a data disc instead of a music cd.

 

[rnmcd]

What is the proper file extension for songs on an audio CD?

 

[nord1899]

.cda is what the OS will show a cd track to be if you look at it in Explorer.
.wav is what the cd track is when ripped to your hdd.
.mp3 is an encoding of the .wav.

Burning .mp3 to a CD-R will result in a data CD only readable in computers and MP3-CD players (such as Rio Volt).
Burning .wav straight to a CD-R will have the same result. .wav is a computer data format.
Using your CD burner software, there should be an option to create an audio CD. You would then point to the .wav's to burn onto the CD. The sofware would then do the appropriate conversions to make a real audio CD at which point Explorer would make the ones on the CD look like .cda.

You really should upgrade your CD Burner software. That version of EZ CD Creator doesn't have much built-in. The latest version of CD Creator (now by Roxio) or Nero would be a lot better.

Hope that helps.

 

[StageLeft]

That version of EZ should be able to do it. As others here mentioned once you have the .wav files just burn them as an audio CD - you have burned them as a data cd.

WHen you start EZ there may be a wizard and you can pick "audio CD" and then you merely select the .wav files and it will automatically burn them to the correct format.

 

[rnmcd]

Is there a way to burn from the .mp3 format to an audio cd and have the conversion performed on-the-fly?

 

[Jay59express]

just tell nero or whatever to create an audio cd, then drag the .mp3 files in, and it automatically converts them
Magic