How to convert wav to burn on cd

[Unregistered]

I have some wav files that are 400kbs.
How do I convert them to wav (40mb) files for burning to a CD to play in my boom box.

Thank you for any help

[ChristinaS]

Re: How to convert wav to burn on cd

I have some wav files that are 400kbs.
How do I convert them to wav (40mb) files for burning to a CD to play in my boom box.

Thank you for any help

Do you mean the size of your wav file is 400K? what are the attributes:
1) 8, 16, 24 bits or what?
2) frequency: 8000Hz, 22000Hz, 44100Hz, 48000Hz or what?
3) mono or stereo or what?

If you cannot tell what these settings are, then your file must be of some compressed type, quite possibly not wav. It may be mp3 or wma or something else.

Is the extension of the file atually wav?

What player can currently play this file?

[Unregistered]

Re: How to convert wav to burn on cd

They are 16bit 12000 HZ 2"Steroe" cd

I hope this helps..........

The files were originally MP3's(3MB) converted down to wav (400kbs)How can I convert them back to wav(40MB) files for playback on a stereo system

[ChristinaS]

Re: How to convert wav to burn on cd

They are 16bit 12000 HZ 2"Steroe" cd

I hope this helps..........

The files were originally MP3's(3MB) converted down to wav (400kbs)How can I convert them back to wav(40MB) files for playback on a stereo system

Have you tried simply to use dMC to convert again to wav at 16-bit, 44100Hz, 2"stereo, and store the resulting file in another folder so as not to clash with the original file which is being read by dMC and thus cannot be overwritten at the same time?

If your file is an actual wav this should work. Of course the quality will not be any better than what you are hearing right now (I assume it can be played in Windows Media Player), but the file will definitely be larger. Then you burn an audio cd (not a data cd) with it.

I am troubled by the size differential though. I fail to see how an mp3 with a files size of 3MB could ever be converted to a wav with a file size of 400K, especially if you say it is 16-bit stereo 12000Hz.

If the original wav was 16-bit 44100Hz stereo of a size 40MB, then indeed an mp3 at 128kbps will be about 3MB. However a wav at 16-bit 12000Hz stereo should be about 10-11MB in size, not 400K. The smallest wav I can achieve from that mp3 would be 1.5MB at 8-bit, 8000Hz, mono. So tehre's a factr of 4 somewhere which is not being accounted for. This is why I am wondering if your current wav file is really a wav or something else.

When you hover over it in Windows Explorerer, does the pop-up info say Format: PCM Wave Format Header anywhere? If not, what does it say?

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Later:

Further experimenting with an mp3 such a syour has brought it down to a very small wav file by using the compressed button and selecting MPEG Layer-3 16kbps 12000Hz mono (there's no stereo setting for that combination). That resulted in a file commensurate in size with your current wav file. I was able to convert it to 16-bit stereo 44100Hz with no problem.

[Spoon]

Re: How to convert wav to burn on cd

400K is possibly 400Kbps, an uncompressed CD wave file is about 1000Kbps.

[gonwk]

Re: Q on Smapling Rates & Frequency

Hi Christina,
I have some DVD Audio files that I can convert them to .WAV so I can play them in my car CD Player.

Q1: from your prior post I take it that I should Convert them with 44,100 HZ and 16 Bits for a CD! Is this correct?
Q2: Assuming I convert them with 48000 HZ and 16 Bits?
Q2A: Could this be PLAYed back in Car CD Player?
Q2B: Would the QUALITY of this version be BETTER than the 44,100HZ one?

Thanks for your Help!

[ChristinaS]

Re: How to convert wav to burn on cd

For a cd player the frequency is 44.1KHz. Other required elements are 16-bit, 2-channel stereo PCM wav file.

You have to burn an audio cd. dCW usually can take all sort of audio files as input, as long as it has the codecs for them, and will perform the needed conversions.

But sometimes conversions that involve too many parameters fail, so you need to perform some conversions prior to burning the audio cd. You can try to see if it works first shot.

You need to ultimately convert the wav files to 16-bit, freq 44.1KHz, uncompressed, 2 channel-stereo wav files. You may have to do it in 2 steps, converting first the bits (if necesary) and then the frequency, and maybe a third step if you have to convert from 5.1 channels to 2-channels. From one step to another keep unmodified parameters "as source".

[LtData]

Re: How to convert wav to burn on cd

Also, DVD-Audio discs are copy-protected and cannot be ripped by dMC or any program that I know of, but you have to use a program like Auxiliary Input to record the song as it plays.

[gonwk]

Re: How to convert wav to burn on cd

Hi Christina & Lt.Data for your feedback,

OK, Chritina ... so what you are telling me is IF I MAKE A .WAV FILE using 48000 HZ, 16 bit, 2Channel Stereo IT WILL NOT play back on a CD Player??

Thanks,
G.

[LtData]

Re: How to convert wav to burn on cd

Correct, CD players want 16-bit, 2 channel, 44.1KHz files. However, they don't want WAV files, they want pure audio. Nearly all CD burning programs will burn CD programs that appear as ".cda" files to Windows.

[bruce]

Re: How to convert wav to burn on cd - can't get it to work

Still confused. I converted from mp3 to .wav file with default settings at 16 bit, 44.1k and 2' stereo, but I can't get it to play in my car audio cd player. What am I missing?

Bruce

[LtData]

Re: How to convert wav to burn on cd - can't get it to work

You don't burn the WAV files to a CD. You use a burning program that takes the WAV files and burns them as an audio CD.

[ChristinaS]

Re: How to convert wav to burn on cd

Bruce you must have burned your wav files to that cd as data files, not making an audio cd as LtData says.

That a special format by itself. When using a cd burnign program you have to select that format.

Many cd burning programs will only make an audio cd if the audio files are presented as uncompressed pcm 44.1KHz, 16-bit audio wav files. Some will also accept them as mp3 or wma and perform the required conversions in order to then burn an audio cd. dCW is able to do that using any audio format (for which it has the codec) as input.

[vijreddy]

Re: How to convert wav to burn on cd

How to burn wav audio files 24 bit, 48000 Hz 5.1 format to cd or dvd in same 5.1 format so that I can play them in home dvd player?