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[Lesmd]

I would like to burn wav files that I have stored on my computor from CDs; however, during the burning process the wav file size on the computer decreases from 44Mb to 1Kb on the newly burned disk. That's a detail drop ratio of 44,000 to 1. As an audiophile, this is unacceptable. How can I stop this deterioration of detail?

[malatekid]

Are you referring to an audio cd? Do you see texts there with cda as part of the name? Those cda's are pointers to the wav files on the disc. So the 1Kb you see refers to the pointer rather than the actual music file.

Edited by malatekid, 13 March 2009 - 04:18 PM.

[d_deweywright]

I would like to burn wav files that I have stored on my computor from CDs; however, during the burning process the wav file size on the computer decreases from 44Mb to 1Kb on the newly burned disk. That's a detail drop ratio of 44,000 to 1. As an audiophile, this is unacceptable. How can I stop this deterioration of detail?

Let me offer one other detail... when you burn an audio CD, you're creating tracks, not files on the CD.  An Audio CD (CDDA) has a different physical format of how the data is put onto the disc than a Data CD, so indeed, as Malatekid said, all you're seeing in Windows explorer is a "placeholder" that Windows uses to indicate there are tracks on the discs.  There is no such thing as a ".CDA" file, it's just a pointer to the track and bears no relation to the actual size of the track.

Your Audio CD is not getting compressed.  As an audiophile, surely if you listened to the disc you'd be able to hear the difference between a 44MB file and a 1KB file.  Trust your ears here.

Edited by d_deweywright, 18 March 2009 - 02:33 AM.