K3B won't Accept wav. files

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:01:41 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote:

> l, ever seen Microsoft ADPCM in WAV files, for example? That type of
> > encoding could also be called compression. Traditionally, the WAVE RIFF
> > file format has always been a container for audio data, being capable of
> > storing formats not limited to PCM (or μ-law or A-law to mention two
> > ancient encodings). MP1 or MP2 data in WAV files has been seen more than
> > a decade ago. And files with MP3 in WAV are out in the wild, too, for
> > several years.
> 
>  Curious tho if that CD will play in standard cd player ... ?

Which CD?

An Audio CD doesn't contain RIFF/WAV files, but PCM samples in a specific
format. Hence it needs a decoder for audio input files when creating an
Audio CD. If you create an Audio CD from MP3 files, they are converted to
PCM when writing the CD.

If you want to keep the MP3 format, you can only create a _Data CD_ that
contains the MP3 files. Various CD players can handle such MP3-CDs, but
they are rejected by any "standard cd player" that only supports Audio
CDs.