What types of files do CDs use?

[Bob]

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Is is a .wav?   16 bit, 44.1kHz?

Can I put wav files of that type on a CDR and have that play in a standard CD player?

[mad_max2024]

I don't think so, but you will probably need to convert them to wav in order to copy them to a CD as audio tracks
There are probably loads of software programs that convert mp3 and wav to audio CDs
And even more programs to rip from CDs to mp3 and wav
Try google or tucows and do a search for some
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[invictious]

Simple, grab a random CD (classical).
Rip the songs with windows media player onto a folder.
Right click on a random piece
There is your file type, encoding etc.

For me it's:
wav
32bit
192kHz

[counterpoint]

?

Is is a .wav?   16 bit, 44.1kHz?

Can I put wav files of that type on a CDR and have that play in a standard CD player?

It's not only the format of the trackfiles itself, but the whole data structure of the music CD, which makes it readable on a CD player. If you have a burning program, it will propably convert wav-files automatically to the required data format if you choose to burn a AUDIO Disk.

[shoenberg3]

Simple, grab a random CD (classical).
Rip the songs with windows media player onto a folder.
Right click on a random piece
There is your file type, encoding etc.

For me it's:
wav
32bit
192kHz

lol

[jlh]

Simple, grab a random CD (classical).
Rip the songs with windows media player onto a folder.
Right click on a random piece
There is your file type, encoding etc.

For me it's:
wav
32bit
192kHz

Yeah right!  We have a comedian amongst us!   

All CD players can read wave files, you don't need to do anything special to it.  Just make sure it's 16bit and 44.1kHz and that you're using CD-R and NOT (!!!) CD-RW (cd players for the most part cannot read CD-RW).  That's the simple answer.

As far as Windows Media Player goes:

If you use Windows Media Player (WMP) to burn to CD-R, the program will convert the files for you.  You may need to have an MP3 plugin on WMP in order to convert files if they're MP3's.  Basically if you ripped music from a CD into WMP, it will not generally be in wav format once you've ripped it, but whatever you ripped the files to on WMP (*.wma, *.mp3, etc.) you will be able to burn them back using WMP onto a CD that's readable on CD players.  I think WMP converts them to wav and then formats the CD to CDA which is standard.

Simply put, all CD players can read CD-R's with music files in a 16bit, 44.1kHz wave format.