wma to regular CD format

-TangleFoot-

Donnie wrote:

So, does WMP10 do the job that the OP needs it to do?

Yes.

Donnie wrote:

Convert .wma files to full size .wav files?

No. Audio CDs do not normally contain data files such as those stored on your computer.

Here's what I could dig up with Google on the CDDA (Compact Disc Digital Audio) format:

• CD Digital Audio
• .CDA Files
• Audio Compact Disk - Writing and Reading the Data
• Sound Formats (Audio CD; Windows WAVE)

Donnie

Hi TangleFoot

If you took a closer look at the links you have provided you would note that .wav files are encoded in the PCM format for playback in standard CD players.

I won't bother to bang on about it, but I am reasonably sure that an application would convert the file to a .wav file in the PCM format. Otherwise it would remain in the original .wma file structure.

Anyway, I hope this thread will be of some use to someone. It's just got a little complicated.

-TangleFoot-

Donnie wrote:

If you took a closer look at the links you have provided you would note that .wav files are encoded in the PCM format for playback in standard CD players.

Just because they're both encoded in PCM doesn't necessarily mean that they're the same thing. A file is nothing more than a container of information, a 'wrapper' for data. Files and their contents are distinct entities.

If you burned a CD full of WAVE files, no standard CD player would read it because it would have been written in an entirely different format.

Donnie

Oops! Forget about what I just wrote. Nero would do a perfectly adequate job of making a CD from .wma, mp3...
No need to convert it to a full size file for an audio CD.

-TangleFoot-

Donnie wrote:

Nero would do a perfectly adequate job of making a CD from .wma, mp3...

As would Windows Media Player 10; to all intents and purposes, they work in much the same way. Nero uses its own authoring engine, whilst WMP10 uses the system bundled with Windows XP by default.

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For users of previous versions of Windows (98SE, ME and 2000), WMP9 along with the Nero Fast Burn Plug-in should provide similar functionality.