Help needed making audio CD on computer

krishna

I've used Audacity to record my audio. Saved the files as WAV files. I used CD BurnerXP Pro to burn an audio CD. This has created three .cda files on the disk (I used a 4x to 10x CDRW). It plays fine on the PC, which recognises it as an audio CD, but won't play on either of my audio CD players. Any suggestions?

isgman

try using NERO to burn the Audio CD, I Use Nero and all mine will play on the CD Player and in the Car..

davet_3

If you don't want to buy Nero try a great little free prog called Burrrn. If you like it you can always send him a small donation via paypal for good Karma purposes ;-)

http://www.burrrn.net/?page_id=4

Burrrn is a little tool for creating audio CDs with CD-Text from various audio files.
Supported formats are: wav, mp3, mpc, ogg, aac, mp4, ape, flac, ofr, wv, tta, m3u, pls and fpl playlists and cue sheets. You can also burn EAC’s noncompliant image + cue sheets! Burrrn can read all types of tags from all these formats (including ape tags in mp3). Burrrn uses cdrdao.exe for burning.

bobshep

Krishna,

I think if you examine a pre-recorded audio CD on your PC the files will all be WAVs so you may need have another go at burning (you could try burning an image first - won't end up with too many coasters that way!). Not sure if .cda will play on normal CD players.

Also you may need to close or finish the CD to enable it to play on other players.

Good luck.

Little_John

ALL audio cds when put in a PC will list .cda files under explorer if you have a look at the properties of each file they will only be a few kb's if that.

They should play on any normal cd player as long as you recoded and finished the cd and not leaving it open for further adding of tracks that can cause the previouse tracks not to work on a cd player.

The most likley problem is the type of disk you used, some cd players wont read cdr, but it is more common that they wont read cdrw whihc I see is what you used. when trying to record a standard audio cd you need to put all tracks on the disk in 1 go and use a cdr to get the best chances of it working.

grab a copy of nero either the trial or an oem version is pretty cheap now and have another go or even try your current burning software but the cdrw is where you went wrong

charlieheard

If you're using Windows XP and Windows Media Player 10, you can just use that to burn a CD from WAV files

krishna

I used Sonic RecordNow to burn the audio CD onto a CDRW and it worked fine. I'm hoping CD-RW will work for us as the CD includes an audio version of our publications list. The idea is we can reburn onto the same CDs each time we update it.

Blackjack_Davy

I think the problem is with CD-RW. Most older CD players won't have anything to do with them, I have a cd player in the house and one in the car and neither will play CD-RW although they play CD-R just fine.

krishna

So far CD-RW seems to be working.

Quincy_3

krishna wrote:

I've used Audacity to record my audio. Saved the files as WAV files. I used CD BurnerXP Pro to burn an audio CD. This has created three .cda files on the disk (I used a 4x to 10x CDRW). It plays fine on the PC, which recognises it as an audio CD, but won't play on either of my audio CD players. Any suggestions?

Just a thought in Audacity, File Export as MP3.

Now you will need to download the lame file first, Unzip it to a folder on your PC i.e My Documents and when you first export as an MP3 file just follow the instructions and point Audacity to the Lame file, you only have to do this the once.

Lame Link

charlieheard

I've seen LAME mentioned in various places, not just with MP3 files, but I haven't been able to find out exactly what it does. How does it fit into the digital-music-file scheme of things?