I have copied audio CD files to my Music folder as .wav using Windows Media Player. I then burnt those files to a blank CD. This CD plays on the PC (via WMP, Power DVD and VLC) but not on my Hi Fi. What is the problem here please
Do not have the CD any more but had the same problem when it was ripped to .mp3>The original CD was a regular type available in shops and on line
What you created is a data CD with wav files on it. Standalone CD players are not designed to work with data CDs. They are designed to only use audio CDs. The CDs you buy with music on them are audio CDs.
If you already have a audio CD you have two choices:
1. Use the CD burning software to duplicate the contents to a blank CDR
2. Extract or rip individual audio tracks from the audio CD
Once you have the extracted audio tracts you can use the CD burning software to create a new audio cd and burn the songs of your choice to it. Remember when you burn this CD you must choose to make it an Audio disc.
Didn't see it mentioned but be sure to use CD-R discs, not the CD-RW discs even if properly closed by the recording program.
UPDATE
Got out an Audio CD that was a direct copy of the original, done on a Memorex CD-R, plays on the computer and a Discman type of portable player [Durabrand probably from WalMart 2006]. Opened Windows Media Player, select a list of .mp3 files I had Ripped from CD some time ago, burned to CD-R, plays well in the portable player and the computer, just tried it in the car, works fine.
Last edited by Berton; 25 Dec 2021 at 19:07.
It needs:
1) burn in the red book audio CD format
2) properly close by the burning software
3) your hifi cd player can read your particular cd-r or cd-rw format.
Your best chance of a playable disc is to burn a CD-R as a CD-Audio disc.
Option 3 (Audio disc) if using CDBurnerXP.
CDs bought in shops are CD-Audio which is an Audio disc, not a Disc with files on like WAV or MP3.
Older CD players were only for the manufactured CD-Audio discs which have a high reflectivity.
Newer CD players may play WAV and MP3 files and also be able to read lower reflectivity discs like CD-R and CD-RW. That will be either be written in the specs, or on the front of the CD player.
A PC CD player/writer will play just about any type of disc.
Hi folks
Normal commercial Audio CD's usually have files arranged as track1.cda, track2.cda ...... which is what you will see when using file explorer.
To play them on devices other than physical CD/DVD players you need to rip them with ripping software and tag them say with things like mp3vtag or similar.
If you can get it from some archive over the internet the old venerable WINAMP (still works on W10/W11) is an excellent cd ripping tool as it has a built in call to the gracenote db for automatic tagging of 100,000's of commercial CD's --in particular classical music which isn't very well covered by other "automatic taggers".
Any ripping tool should work though.
If you want to create a CD to play on a physical player then you need to do the following
1) (optional ist step if getting music from a commercial audio cd) rip the tracks to mp3,flac, wav or whatever.
2) Burn the ripped tracks to your physical cd - probably it will only be able to handle wav and mp3. There's plenty of free cd burning software around. Ensure your player can handle cd-r, cd-rw, cd+r, cd+rw types of discs. Blank DVD type discs are no good for this purpose and also restrict the music size (in the case of wav) to no more than 80 mins per disc. I never bother with physical Audio CD's any more -- even if I get some new ones I just rip them and never use the original audio cd again.
You might get better results copying ripped tracks to a decent mobile phone and playing that into an amplifer via aux in / blu tooth -- same if playing in a car -- pretty well all cars these days have aux in and blu tooth in their entertainment systems.
Cheers
jimbo
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