>>>>>What music formats can be played on an MP3 player, and more specifically, an iPod?
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>>>>>Can WinMedPlayer WMA files be played?
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>>>>>Strange how a 6-odd mbyte track in .wma takes up just 1K as a .cda on the CD
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>>>>>Is a .cda track emailable?
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>>>>http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/consumer_electronics/ipod_faq/ipod-supported-music-formats-good-sound-quality.html
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>>>>I think that the cda link is just that - a link to a file and not the music file itself.
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>>>>By the way I am using a software program to record audio and it is named Reaper. The full version is free with no time limits. You are asked to pay $40 if you like it. It is a super program and beats all the recording software I have bought.
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>>>>http://reaper.fm/
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>>>OK, thanks chaps. I want to email a 6MByte-odd .wma track, ripped from a CD. It won't compress any more to a winzip, as expected. ANy suggestions?
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>>Do you have conversion software? Sounds like a job for MP3.
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>No. I've been scouting around WinPlayer and the Web to find a plug-in that can convert the CD file to .mp3, but I onlu have .wm? options

A cd file is just a wav file. When you save a wav file to a cd as a music file it creates a cda file which is just a catalogue entry for the wav file.

Look for an app called CDEX. It's free and it's very good.

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>>How many CDA 1k files will fit on a 800 Meg CD? :)
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>Yes, daft me! :-)