When I export my tracks, labelled correctly, as wav files, I cannot change details of the track in Windows explorer which I can do on any other music tracks, I have just uploaded new Audacity and this seems to affect burning to CD’s. The CD’s are burning as cda files, any ideas people ??
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What “details” do you want to change? The file explorer is just a means to display (and move or delete) files in the operating system.
Audacity does not do anything with CDs. It does not burn, and it does not read them.
Please explain a bit more detailed, what you are going to do how.
Maybe the folder is read-only?
The CD’s are burning as cda files, any ideas people ??
That means you have a regular-normal audio CD. If you buy Taylor Swift CD it will show CDA. Regular audio CDs don’t have “computer files”. That’s why they have to be “ripped” and you can’t simply copy the audio from a CD to your hard drive.
The disc doesn’t REALLY have CDA files (compact disc audio). It’s just the way Windows Explorer represents what’s on the disc.
If you want to burn WAV files (or MP3s) or any other computer files onto the CD you have to tell your burning application to make a “data disc”. But some CD players can’t play WAV or MP3 files.
Of course, you can burn WAV or other “data files” onto the CD (complete with metadata) and you can play it on your computer.
As far as metadata, some CDs have CD-Text but I don’t think it’s very common. If you want to burn CD-Text onto a CD you’ll have to find a CD burning application that can do it.
Usually when you play a CD on your computer, the player application takes a “fingerprint” of the CD and then it goes online to find the album/artist/title/artwork, etc. But of course, your homemade CD won’t be in the database.