<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.16.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 17:58 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Caleb Marcus wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 17:19 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > > >> Karl Auer wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 16:45 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I'm not sure but look I just looked and there is no way I see to >>>> save an mp3 file as a .cda. I guess it is too old. Like 4 years :-) >>>> >>>> >>> Hang on, the OP wants to write a CD. There is no need to save a .cda >>> file. >>> >>> Regards, K. >>> >>> >>> >> Please learn to read the first message. >> >> Karl >> >> > > Karl L, please learn to UNDERSTAND the first message. He wants to BURN > an audio CD, and incorrectly assumes that he'll need to convert to .cda > first (.cda really isn't used by anything... it's just Windows' way of > abstracting the structure of an audio disc.) What he wants to use is, > indeed, Serpentine, which will take his mp3s, decode them, and write the > necessary information onto the disc to make it work in audio players. > > If you READ what he said he has a very old cd-rom reader in his car and it can't read MP3. He wants to change the files to .cda so his reader will work. Karl </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> A CD-ROM reader in a car? He said CD player... nothing about CD-ROMs, which are very different beasts. Even if his car stereo COULD read the ISO 9660 filesystem used for data CDs, these fabled .cda format files would still have to exist... what he's looking for is a way to burn a standard audio CD, like you'd get from a music store. </BODY> </HTML>