Thanks so much for the reply. I just bought some new TDK music CDs after
reading in this group about TDK. Turns out that did the trick. CD sounds
great!
"MCheu" <mpcheu@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1mom21lt9dskarbb4grj9sfqghs5ckhc7l@4ax.com... On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 10:14:14 -0800, "acolby" <apcolby@cox.net> wrote:Just wondering why audio files with the extension *.cda won't play back onmy car cd player. I'm using a new (installed 3-5-05) Plextor cdr burner.Is it the cdr type? Maxell, 700 mb? They're not files. They're audio tracks. Windows just chooses to represent them as files, so the users can "visualize" them easier. They're the same audio tracks that you find on a store bought audio CD. The ability to playback a CDR in any player depends on the player, the burner and the disc. For whatever reason, car players are the *MOST* picky about CDR playback. Some won't play them at all, some will only play specific brands, some will only play discs burned below certain speeds (16x seems to be ok for most players, but a few still demand discs burned at 4x to play without skips). A few will have a preference for the older style 650meg (74min) discs, but usually if a player will play those, they'll play the 80min discs too (700megs) First test the disc in your computer and maybe another CD player to see if it will play. This checks to see if the disc was done correctly to begin with. Then since you already bought the Maxell discs, try burning at a slower speed. Try 16x first, as that often works. Then try some other disc brands with other dye types. As the Maxells are pthalocyanine (greenish yellow dye), try some cyanine discs (Taiyo Yuden, Fuji - japan, HP - Japan) or Azo discs (Verbatim Datalife Plus and Mitsubishi).It's funny but the files I'm recording start out as *.wma files and areconverted by the roxio software that came with the Plextor drive to *.cda.Is that the problem?/s/Confused No. That's what it's supposed to do. If you chose to create a Redbook Audio disc (that's a standard Music CD), you're asking the program to convert the data to raw PCM streams and burn them as individual tracks on the disc. If your objective is to make a disc that's compliant with audio CD standards (ie. the proper format for a standard CD player). If you left them as .wma files, and burned the disc as a data CD, it would only play on "MP3" players that support the .wma format. --------------------------------------------- MCheu