As of two or three versions ago, you could use Windows Media to burn a Music CD. The question becomes, does Windows Media insist on compressing the songs into Windows Media Format (h.264, I believe) before the burn?
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Re: Our Friend Windows Media
What version of WMP are you on about? I never use it, but if it didn't allow burning to audio CD I think we'd know about it? I can't see why it would compress to WMA lossy before decompressing to PCM. Has someone said it does? As far as I know you can burn WAV to a data CD using WMP.
The issue that older WMP versions did have is that you couldn't extract audio CDs to WAV.
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The issue that older WMP versions did have is that you couldn't extract audio CDs to WAV.
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Re: Our Friend Windows Media
<<<if it didn't allow burning to audio CD I think we'd know about it?>>>
We would certainly know about it. I didn't mean to suggest the program would not produce a Music CD. It does.
I mean to follow the Windows Philosophy what suggests, strongly, that everything, unless proven otherwise is a Windows Media File. If you introduce a "foreign" music file, doesn't Windows automatically assign a WMA icon? What else does it do, if anything?
Before you answer that, we know it doesn't just tag on a WMA file extension during import. It does Other Stuff. Doesn't it need File Import to manage the Music CD burn?
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We would certainly know about it. I didn't mean to suggest the program would not produce a Music CD. It does.
I mean to follow the Windows Philosophy what suggests, strongly, that everything, unless proven otherwise is a Windows Media File. If you introduce a "foreign" music file, doesn't Windows automatically assign a WMA icon? What else does it do, if anything?
Before you answer that, we know it doesn't just tag on a WMA file extension during import. It does Other Stuff. Doesn't it need File Import to manage the Music CD burn?
Koz
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Re: Our Friend Windows Media
<<<The issue that older WMP versions did have is that you couldn't extract audio CDs to WAV.>>>
You have needed CDEX for a great many years, but Windows Media before about 9 would not prepare and burn a Music CD. Couldn't be done. There was much celebration at that one magic version upgrade.
Koz
You have needed CDEX for a great many years, but Windows Media before about 9 would not prepare and burn a Music CD. Couldn't be done. There was much celebration at that one magic version upgrade.
Koz