What do most CD players play?
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What do most CD players play?
What do most radio/CD players play: mp3s, wavs, or cdas? I was wondering if you placed all you favorite songs from itunes onto a cd in mp3 format that you would be able to play them on you CD player?
What is the most popular format for music CDs?
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What is the most popular format for music CDs?
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CDA, but that is not a file format, unlike mp3 and wav. Btw, wav by itself is just a container file format (just like avi is), meaning it can contain any other stream format in it, e.g. mp3.JellyFish wrote: Sure? I've been reading a lot about CDAs and how their the best. I need a format the would work on every CD.
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Ah, thanks for the correction.Weirdan wrote:CDA, but that is not a file format, unlike mp3 and wav. Btw, wav by itself is just a container file format (just like avi is), meaning it can contain any other stream format in it, e.g. mp3.JellyFish wrote: Sure? I've been reading a lot about CDAs and how their the best. I need a format the would work on every CD.
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Just on case there's some confusion, "Redbook" audio CDs are a collection of "CDA" (Compact Disc Audio) tracks. Each "track" on the CD is encoded as mono or stereo 8-bit PCM WAV @ 44100 samples per second. Tracks ARE the container format (arguably, albeit simple) in this case
Many .wav files meet those specs, but .wav files can have varying number of channels, sample depth (8-bit, 16-bit, etc...), sample rates (24k, 44.1k, 48k, etc...), and some even sport a simple form of compression (LZW?). Don't take my word for the compression, but I'm almost positive I've seen it.
DVDA (get your mind out of the gutter) supports AC3 compression natively, as well as some other coolness. I'm sure there's a wiki page about it all somewhere, so I'll move on.
Many .wav files meet those specs, but .wav files can have varying number of channels, sample depth (8-bit, 16-bit, etc...), sample rates (24k, 44.1k, 48k, etc...), and some even sport a simple form of compression (LZW?). Don't take my word for the compression, but I'm almost positive I've seen it.
DVDA (get your mind out of the gutter) supports AC3 compression natively, as well as some other coolness. I'm sure there's a wiki page about it all somewhere, so I'll move on.