can all blank cds, can hold wav. format? when u cd burn them

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thanx i would appreciate it..

i heard sum like this "some cd players can't play wav. format music"

is that true?
 
If they're in WAV format, it's not an audio CD, it's a data CD. No CD players can play them, but computers can read them as data disks and read the WAV files off them.

To play in a CD player they must be audio CDs. Even then, some older CD players might have trouble recognizing CD-Rs as playable audio CDs...
 
AlChuck said:
If they're in WAV format, it's not an audio CD, it's a data CD. No CD players can play them, but computers can read them as data disks and read the WAV files off them.

To play in a CD player they must be audio CDs. Even then, some older CD players might have trouble recognizing CD-Rs as playable audio CDs...
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Couldn't have said it better myself. ;)
 
I might be totally wrong, but isn't .wav what the cd formats are? And the .mp3 formats are the data ones? I've always had to convert mp3s into .wav to create audio cds, and they worked fine in most decks. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
 
Yes, you are wrong.

Audio CD tracks are .CDA not .WAV

Converting an mp3 into a wav file is an intermediate step in burning an audio CD

(I just made that last sentence up, but it sounds logical :) )

In any event, put a commercial CD into a CD rom drive, then open up the drive in Windows explorer (PC users) and you will see that the track names are Track01.CDA, Track02.CDA etc.
 
Just some techno-babble clarification - The .cda files are just pointers to the data on the CD. You'll notice that .cda files are really small in size (<100K) The actual data on the audio CD is probably identical to that of the wave file, with the exception of some header information - So when you rip a song from a CD to a wave file it pretty much creates the wav header and then does a bit-for-bit copy of the data on the CD (correct me if I'm wrong anyone?)

DKMurphPr said:
Yes, you are wrong.

Audio CD tracks are .CDA not .WAV

Converting an mp3 into a wav file is an intermediate step in burning an audio CD

(I just made that last sentence up, but it sounds logical :) )

In any event, put a commercial CD into a CD rom drive, then open up the drive in Windows explorer (PC users) and you will see that the track names are Track01.CDA, Track02.CDA etc.
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gordone said:
Just some techno-babble clarification - The .cda files are just pointers to the data on the CD. You'll notice that .cda files are really small in size (<100K) The actual data on the audio CD is probably identical to that of the wave file, with the exception of some header information - So when you rip a song from a CD to a wave file it pretty much creates the wav header and then does a bit-for-bit copy of the data on the CD (correct me if I'm wrong anyone?)
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Oh, OK!

So I stand corrected.

Looks like I know even less than I thought I knew.
 
But now you know, and as GI Joe used to say -
"Knowing is half the battle"
(I'd like to know what the other half is!)

DKMurphPr said:
Oh, OK!

So I stand corrected.

Looks like I know even less than I thought I knew.
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gordone said:
But now you know, and as GI Joe used to say -
"Knowing is half the battle"
(I'd like to know what the other half is!)
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I'm showing my age here, but when my children were, well, children, they used to LOVE quoting GI Joe.

I never could figure out what the the half of the battle is either. Maybe living to disseminate your new found knowledge?
 
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