[doubletake13]

I'm trying to burn wav files to a CD as just a regular audio CD. After it burns it, all that show up are cda files and my Sony portable cd player (and my car CD player) won't play the CD/recognize anything except cda files.

It's not rocket science, I understand that cda files are on regular (factory-made) CDs as pointers to the wav files.

I've tried at least 3 brands of CD-Rs, Sony, Memorex, TDK.

Help please, this is just so frustrating. Roxio 5/6 were easier to use than 8 it seems to me.

[Beerman]

doubletake13, on Nov 2 2006, 03:49 PM, said:

I'm trying to burn wav files to a CD as just a regular audio CD. After it burns it, all that show up are cda files and my Sony portable cd player (and my car CD player) won't play the CD/recognize anything except cda files.

It's not rocket science, I understand that cda files are on regular (factory-made) CDs as pointers to the wav files.

I've tried at least 3 brands of CD-Rs, Sony, Memorex, TDK.

Help please, this is just so frustrating. Roxio 5/6 were easier to use than 8 it seems to me.

Exactly how did you burn these files to disc? Do they play in your computer ok? You're correct, cda files are shortcut files to the info on the disc.
As for easy, start up Music Disc Creator, select audio file and Add Tracks and you've got yourself a cd. Can't get much simpler than that.

[doubletake13]

Beerman, on Nov 2 2006, 02:04 PM, said:

Exactly how did you burn these files to disc? Do they play in your computer ok? You're correct, cda files are shortcut files to the info on the disc.
As for easy, start up Music Disc Creator, select audio file and Add Tracks and you've got yourself a cd. Can't get much simpler than that.

yeah, you would think so wouldn't you?

How I"m doing it: Home> Audio> Audio CD> Add Music> Record.

Pretty much the same way you're talking about, just a different way of getting there.

The CDs with the cda files won't play on the computer, either with iTunes, WinMediaPlayer, or Roxio 8. (The cda files are all that shows up with I look at them through My Computer)

[Beerman]

doubletake13, on Nov 2 2006, 04:10 PM, said:

yeah, you would think so wouldn't you?

How I"m doing it: Home> Audio> Audio CD> Add Music> Record.

Pretty much the same way you're talking about, just a different way of getting there.

The CDs with the cda files won't play on the computer, either with iTunes, WinMediaPlayer, or Roxio 8. (The cda files are all that shows up with I look at them through My Computer)

Try Music Disc Creator under the Applications area and see if that works. Sounds like you are doing it right to me.

[tbrewst]

I'd agree with Paul.What you did seemed right.Do like he says and try Music Disc Creator.
If you look at any CD standard disc with Explorer all you will ever see is the .cda files.If the disc won't play anywhere then I would suspect a problem in the burn process and using MDC may solve the problem.

[Brendon]

I just did what Doubletake did, Home> Audio> Audio CD> Add Music> Record. It worked fine, except Roxio Record Now (Home) threw out one of my WAV files because it didn't like the bitrate.

The other WAV files were happily burned to CD. They show in Explorer as .CDA pseudo-files, and play in my CD player and in the computer drive.

So the method works okay, it's something else which isn't working. It's well worth trying Music Creator as Paul and Terry suggest, in case there's something wrong with your Roxio Record Now Audio.

Can you preview the WAV files when you have them in your Home/audio project? [Right-click on one, and select preview]