Problem Burning CD

Hi,

I rarely burn CDs so it's always a challenge for me. My daughter's getting married and I'm trying to put together a CD of songs from various artists and print a label directly to cd on my Epson printer.

I have a cd that was burned and given to me, but one of the songs was corrupt halfway through, so I copied all of the songs onto my computer. All of these files had the .cda extension and all played fine in my computer except for the one song that was corrupt halfway through.

I got a new version of the corrupted song. (This one was in .m4a format.) It played fine on my pc. I replaced the corrupted one with the new one and burned this new list again to a cd-r using Windows AutoPlay. It said it burned successfully, but when I went to play, it automatically went to the song that was in .m4a format and skipped the others. It played that song just fine, but when I try to play any of the songs with the .cda extension now I get the message: "The file you are attempting to play has an extension (.) that does not match the file format" or "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file.

The cd that was originally given to me contained all files with .cda extension and it played fine, so what could be the problem?

Hoping someone can help as I'm in a time crunch now.

Thanks,
ginger

 

What I know is .CDA files are not audio files, they are just a way that Windows uses to let you access an Audio CD index. They do not contain sampled sound at all. This means that you cannot convert them to another format (such like MP3), simply because they do not contain audio samples. This is why if you copy a .CDA file to our hard drive and try to play it with an audio player, nothing happens. You will need a CDA to MP3 converter. This might help www(dot)imtoo(dot)com/video-to-audio-converter/how-to-convert-cda-to-mp3.html

 

lanotdesign,

Thanks for your reply. You're right in that the problem was with copying the files to my hard drive. I had just copied the files from the cd and pasted into a folder on my hard drive. They did play fine in Windows Media Player from the hard drive, but the problem was then burning them to a CD again. That's when they wouldn't play ... from the new CD.

Anyway, I think I've solved my problem. In case anyone has a similar problem this is what I did:

I put the CD that I originally had with the songs on it into my CD drive. I then opened iTunes and under Devices (in the left column) I clicked on Audio CD. The list of files on the CD appeared in the column on the right. In iTunes I selected File|New Playlist and created a playlist for the songs I wanted. Then with the name of the new playlist selected, I went to File|Burn Playlist to Disc. From the options I selected "Audio CD" then "Burn". The CD burned successfully and I tested the CD to see if it would play in my computer's CD player as well as in my car, and this time it was successful on both.

So, like lanotdesign said, I think the problem all along was that you can't just copy and paste from the CD to your hard drive and burn from there. Apparently iTunes must have done some sort of conversion along the way without me having to specify it.

Anyway, it works so I'm happy.

Thanks again for your help.

Ginger

 

You may try AVS Disc Creator, I always use it to convert and burn video to CD on my windows machine. It works pretty well.