CD-R players and .wav files

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Hi guys,

Generally, I export from Sonar 2.2 to a .wav file, and then, when I want to e-mail a file, to my friends and family, I can convert the .wav to an .mp3 with no problem.

For Christmas, I received a Pioneer DVD/CD/MP3 player that supports CD, CD-R, and CD-RW formats, and I have been able to play CD-Rs with my MP3s on them with no problem.

I got to thinking it would be better to burn songs as .wav files to the CD-R because -- if I am not mistaken -- the files are bigger and have better fidelity, and I'd like to check mixes on my home stereo as well instead of my computer speakers or my monitors.

I tried this, but the so-called "CD-R, CD-RW" player would not play the disc. I guess I just thought the player that plays CD-Rs should play a cd with .wav files.

Can someone please advise me on the process to get the best file/format possible to CD? Is this an issue of the Pioneer player or my file format? Do I have to get a CD-R player that will play .wav files. I'm just a little confused by this.

Thanks for your help,

63falcon
 
Burn an audio disc instead of a data disc with wave files. Still use the wave files for the audio disc of course.
 
63falcon,

What The Seifer said. When you listen to a CD you aren't actually hearing a 'wav' file as such. You are hearing audio which is put on to the disk at 16bit / 44.1Khz, not an actually wav file. Your Pioneer player recognises the mp3 files and will recognise them on a CD-R or a CD-RW, it won't recognise the wav files. As The Seifer said, burn an audio CD using the wave files which you create... it will be the same quality as a standard audio CD. In saying this, when you burn the wave files to CD, make sure they are 16bit, 44.1Khz otherwise they will sound funny.

Porter
 
Thanks guys. I will try that this afternoon. But it is better to save the wav files to the CD, rather than converting the wav files first to an mp3 and THEN to the cd, or does it really matter?

Thanks for your patience,

Falcon
 
Do NOT convert tp MP3 at any time. MP3's throw away a lot of data (after all it IS a compression scheme). The only reason you would create an MP3 is so you could send the tune through the internet, and then you would make a copy of the original .wav to make the MP3 from, leaving a hi res version of the original.
 
Thanks for the help. It must have been a bad CD-R or something because everything is working fine now. I burned the wav file to the CD, and the player picked it up fine.

63falcon
 
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