<!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 Fri, 2008-03-28 at 05:47 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Caleb Marcus wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 18:32 -0700, NoOp wrote: > > >> On 03/27/2008 06:02 PM, Karl Auer wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 17:46 -0700, NoOp wrote: >>> >>>> You can then convert your mp3's to wav files which are what most older >>>> audio cd's use. Here is the problem. The oldest CD player I own is in my Dodge Durango 1999 model. I discovered some of my music cd's will not play on that. I looked deeper and it 100% failed to play a music cd with .mp3 files. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> .cda files don't actually exist on a standard audio CD... they're just an abstraction used by Windows to represent tracks on a standard audio CD, which don't correspond to files. Try browsing an audio CD in Ubuntu with the file manager... you can't. Red Book audio CDs don't have a filesystem, they're just plain audio. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> It played other cd's just fine with good audio on 4 big speakers. I bought a I-Pod and discovered it would play only .mp3 files. I had to d/l some special files with Windows codex stuff to convert the older cd's .cda to .mp3. It is weird but the way it is in the world of music. Karl </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> You weren't converting cda files to mp3 files... you were ripping the PCM data off the CD and encoding it into mp3. </BODY> </HTML>