Brett is correct. Audio CD's do not store WAV files. When you burn audio files, whether MP3, WAV, FLAC, OGG or any other format to an audio CD, they are written to the CD, and CDA files are also written as place holders so that CD players, computers and other devices know where to find the tracks. That's why you must go through the process of ripping a CD to store the tracks in audio files; it's not enough to simply copy the CDA files onto your hard drive. This analogy also works in reverse; writing a bunch of WAV files to a CD doesn't make it an audio CD, nor does it make it playable on standard CD players.
Thus, my original point still stands - converting MP3 to WAV is 
absolutely pointless.
Previously, Brett Boyer said:
cd players do not play wave files so putting wave files on a cd will get you nowhere. You must burn them as an audio cd which would result in file names ending in CDA. You can't copy files to a cd and then expect them to play on a standard cd player.
bb
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Vinny Samarco" <vin...@hughes.net>
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Subject: Re: Downloading mp3 files,changing to wave files for a standardaudio cd.

thanks, but I have been asked to make standard cds from these mp3 files. Otherwise, I wouldn't do it.
Vinny

----- Original Message ----- From: "James Scholes" <ja...@jls-radio.com>
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Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: Downloading mp3 files, changing to wave files for a standardaudio cd.

Just a note - ExpressBurn and CDex will burn MP3 files to standard audio CDs just fine. Converting MP3 files to WAV is known as transcoding, a process where you convert a lower quality audio file format to a higher quality one. An MP3 file is compressed, and cannot be decompressed. So while WAV files that were recorded/ripped as WAV will sound better than their MP3 counterparts, a WAV file converted from an MP3 file will sound exactly the same as the MP3 file but have a larger file size. To sum up, converting MP3 to WAV is completely pointless.
Previously, Vinny Samarco said:
Hi,
I am wondering why I am not being successful in this venture.
I have some mp3 files that I am asked to put on audio cd in standard format. I take the mp3 files, download them, then I use goldwave to save them as wave files to play on a standard cd player, I also split the file into tracks. When I go to burn these onto standard audio cds they won't play, and I can't figure out why not. I have made sure that the files were wave files at 44100, 16 byt. and yet the results will play on some mp3 players, but not standard audio cds.
I have also tried this using cdex, but with the same result.  I am 
using express burn to burn my wave files.  Can anyone think of what 
I am doing wrong?
Thanks.
Vinny

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