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Will most modern cd player play WAV disc or WMA?

HI there

i currently have a technics sh780 all in one system which will play anything but is super sensitive to any scratches on discs and will skip. Prior to this i had a sony micro system which would play even badly scratched discs no problems at all.

I am going to begetting some seperates soon and i am wondering will the newer cd players play cd rs that have wav file sburned on them or WMA?

cheers

Will most modern cd player play WAV disc or WMA?

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I am going to begetting some seperates soon and i am wondering will the newer cd players play cd rs that have wav file sburned on them or WMA?


Audio CD tracks are not files in the usual sense of the word, so you cannot count on an audio CD player to play anything else but audio CDs. Anything else will be in case the player does happen to support data CDs with a decoder for a certain format. In-car players and portable players often do, and in that case, the most widely supported format would be mp3, and then I guess wav more often than wma. If it is a DVD player, then maybe also mp4s including mp4-encapsulated AAC.

But if you want to play music you have on file, why bother about burning them to CD when you can play them off a computer?


Funny typo, btw

Will most modern cd player play WAV disc or WMA?

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Quote from: keenly on
I am going to begetting some seperates soon and i am wondering will the newer cd players play cd rs that have wav file sburned on them or WMA?


Audio CD tracks are not files in the usual sense of the word, so you cannot count on an audio CD player to play anything else but audio CDs. Anything else will be in case the player does happen to support data CDs with a decoder for a certain format. In-car players and portable players often do, and in that case, the most widely supported format would be mp3, and then I guess wav more often than wma. If it is a DVD player, then maybe also mp4s including mp4-encapsulated AAC.

But if you want to play music you have on file, why bother about burning them to CD when you can play them off a computer?


Funny typo, btw


I meant audio cds that are burnt in WAV, WMA etc. Not data files.

I already have 120gb of music on my laptop i prefer to make cds and listen to them on decent speakers.

I learnt the hard way that most blu rays player dont play data files that are WMA etc. To get one that does costs hundreds. YET old DENON dvd player; 1920.40 and 40 all play pretty much anything including sacd, dvd a.

Will most modern cd player play WAV disc or WMA?

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I meant audio cds that are burnt in WAV, WMA etc. Not data files.
This is incorrect. CD's burnt as wav are Data cd's which is a different format than 'redbook' audio cd.

As previous noted, your new unknown to us hardware may or may not play anything other than a true audio cd. By the way, why not connect laptop to the new hardware and skip the CD?

Will most modern cd player play WAV disc or WMA?

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Quote from: keenly on
I meant audio cds that are burnt in WAV, WMA etc. Not data files.


As has been already pointed out to you, WAVs and WMAs (and MP3s, etc.) on a CD are precisely 'data files'. Audio CDs do not contain WAV nor WMA [... simplifying away the data part of the 'EnhancedCD's from the discussion]



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I already have 120gb of music on my laptop i prefer to make cds and listen to them on decent speakers.


Makes sense if you are just using a stereo stack which has no line in, so that there is no other way to play this than through the CD player (but even then it does not need to support file formats).

However, as you mentioned that you are looking for a separate components-hifi, you could just as well hook up your laptop to it. As long as your stereo has line input (or digital or even USB input), there is not much reason to play the physical CDs. I suggest that you take a couple of hours and read how computer playback is done these days. You probably don't even need a CD player at all, as long as you have a CD-ROM drive.

Will most modern cd player play WAV disc or WMA?

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I am going to be getting some seperates soon and i am wondering will the newer cd players play cdrs that have wav files burned on them or WMA?
It's really "hit or miss" with these non-standard formats.  I think you'll have better luck with a DVD or Blu-Ray player, but it's still hit-or-miss. 

If you are going to play "shiny discs" on a stand-alone player, you should really stick to the standardized formats for CD, DVD, or Blu-Ray. 

If you want to play computer formats, or portable player formats, it's best to use a computer or portable player.

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...anything but is super sensitive to any scratches on discs and will skip.
Of course, the real solution for that problem is to make a back-up (on a hard disk or shiny disc) before the disc is damaged.