.cda files?

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hey all,

1-well i'm burning copy's of my cd and it works/plays fine on my pooter. the file names are--- track 1.cda, etc.

2-i don't have a "regular" cd player in my house,just my computer.

3-will these .cda files play on a regular cd,car cd,or dvd player?

4-or do i need to convert them to a wav and or a mp3?

5-thought i'd better find out before "coaster time".
thanx,jw
 
First what you can do is rip the tracks off your CD with a CD Ripper (try download.com for one). And have the files converted to .wav and burn them to CD.

Or just go here.
 
jwgeetar

alright, got another question

i converted my cda's to wav but thet were popping and crackling.

i then converted them to mp3's and they were fine.

then i converted the mp3's to wav's just to see and the wav's started popping and cracking again.

is there a problem with this software(cdex) and wav's?

i still need just clean wav files for my cd.hmmmm?
 
I don't have any trouble with my CDEX or whatever its called. Are you going into the Stereo\16Bit\44100Hz folder? How are you copying the files?

Another thing you can try is get a copy of CDRWin and you can make an image file from the source cd and then burn the image to a new disc.
 
Uhhh, I think you're mistaken (correct me if I'm wrong), but when Windows sees that you have a red book Audio CD in the drive, it gets all the tracks from the TOC (Table of Contents), and lists each track in Explorer as a *.cda file. Think of this file as a 'pointer' to each track in the CD. Each track is essentially a wav file (the header info might be different though) anyway. Ripping just copies the file to your harddrive and updates the header so it is a proper wav file.
If you do what Whyte Ice suggests, you'll end up with another CD-R with .cda files on it! (at least when opened on your computer). I suggest just bringing your CD-Rs to a buddy with a regular cd player to confirm that they work.


Whyte Ice said:
First what you can do is rip the tracks off your CD with a CD Ripper (try download.com for one). And have the files converted to .wav and burn them to CD.

Or just go here.
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DON'T DO THIS!!!! (regarding the quote below!) When you convert the wavs to mp3s, you lose quality forever. When you convert the mp3s back to wavs, it should sound like the MP3, not the original wav. I think something might be wrong with your conversion program. Follow my advice above - no need to "rip" anything to a wav - unless you want to take existing CD tracks, and modify them with your Audio editing software (I like to trim songs when I make mixes - i.e. get rid of long intros on live tracks, and other similar to stuff so I can cram as much stuff into my 74 minutes!)



alright, got another question

i converted my cda's to wav but thet were popping and crackling.

i then converted them to mp3's and they were fine.

then i converted the mp3's to wav's just to see and the wav's started popping and cracking again.

is there a problem with this software(cdex) and wav's?

i still need just clean wav files for my cd.hmmmm?
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Good luck!
-Evan
 
Originally posted by gordone
Uhhh, I think you're mistaken (correct me if I'm wrong), but when Windows sees that you have a red book Audio CD in the drive, it gets all the tracks from the TOC (Table of Contents), and lists each track in Explorer as a *.cda file. Think of this file as a 'pointer' to each track in the CD. Each track is essentially a wav file (the header info might be different though) anyway. Ripping just copies the file to your harddrive and updates the header so it is a proper wav file.
If you do what Whyte Ice suggests, you'll end up with another CD-R with .cda files on it! (at least when opened on your computer). I suggest just bringing your CD-Rs to a buddy with a regular cd player to confirm that they work.
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You are probably right since I've never actually used CDEX or whatever its called to get tracks from other discs. I just make a image of the source CD with CDRWin.
 
thanx a lot guys,getting this thing figured out. yea i need a player to try them out on. if i could keep it in the original .cda format it would be best.

i guess i'm looking for "weighty" evidence. a real wav file like(one of the songs) is 28 meg. and a mp3 of that same one is like 8 meg.

a .cda is 44kb. of that song.oh well, makes no sense but if it works---fine.
 
The cda is small because it's only a pointer to the data, Pointers are things us programmer types deal with all the time, so I guess that's why it made sense to me. Think of a pointer as an address which represents a house. The house is quite big, whereas the address is very small (only 3 lines of text vs. 2000 sq. feet), but from the address you know how to find the house. Do you send someone your house, or do you give them your address so they can drive over to your house?
(uhhh, I think this analogy is kind of stupid, but it kind of works!)

Re. wavs vs. mp3s, that's another can of worms, but you will lose some sound quality in the conversion (hence the smaller size), so keep that in mind.

Glad I could help with the cda issue!

-Evan
"Been programming in C for too long today!"


jwgeetar said:
thanx a lot guys,getting this thing figured out. yea i need a player to try them out on. if i could keep it in the original .cda format it would be best.

i guess i'm looking for "weighty" evidence. a real wav file like(one of the songs) is 28 meg. and a mp3 of that same one is like 8 meg.

a .cda is 44kb. of that song.oh well, makes no sense but if it works---fine.
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thanks gordone, a great stupid analogy---my favorite one's.
so it appears i'm good to go.
 
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