does anyone know if you can burn a wav file to a cd and listen to it in any cd player

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Does anyone know if you can burn a wav file to a cd and than listen to it on any cd player?
 
As long as its an audio CD. Although some data CD's will paly in CD players as well.
 
You sure can! :)

With whatever CD burning software you have, checking off "disc-at-once" or "Red Book format" will help ensure that the .wavs on your disc will be playable in any CD player. Any other mode can be iffy. "Red Book" is how pro CDs are formatted.
 
You can, but you recording software will convert wave files to cda (cd audio) format on the fly. So the files on your cd would not be wave files anymore.
 
https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=75248

From that thread -
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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The current question addresses the reverse - taking a .wav file from your HDD and turning it into a CD-Audio format. Same theory holds though.
 
FYI- Alot of older DVD players will not read a CD-R- most of the newer ones will though- Im not real sure how the DVD player makes the distingtion but Ive tried it and its true
 
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