How to convert WMA to CDA?

Burn your WMA audio format to audio CD for playing on regular stereo and keeping enduringly.

Windows Media Audio (WMA) was developed to compete with the MP3 format for Windows Media Player. It is Microsoft's audio encoding format for storing digital audio in both lossy and lossless. Though not as popular as MP3, WMA tends to outperform MP3 in the area of sound quality, particularly with files encoded at lower file sizes. Microsoft claims that the WMA files are compressed three times more than MP3s yet retain their original sound quality.

CDA is file extension of audio files stored on an audio CD, which also is abbreviation of CD Audio. It's the format of audio on a standard RedBook CD which means CD audio tracks, which features the best audio quality. A CDA file has a size of 44 bytes which include audio header information of an audio track. CDA files are actually pointers to the locations of the individual tracks on the CD medium.

Why we need to convert WMA to CDA? WMA audio format has high quality output and lower file sizes. This performance advantage makes it handy for applications like portable digital audio players. But it can not be played on a CD Player or discman. If you want to listen your WMA songs with CD Player, car CD players or on regular stereo, you need to convert your WMA to CDA. Another merit of converting is quite obvious, CDs can be keeped for good and all.

The procedure of converting WMA to CDA is called "burning" and the program that can convert WMA to CDA is often named "CD Burner". You need at least one CD-R/RW drive; Pentium 90MHZ or better. Choose the WMA files you'd like to convert, then make your own audio CD with CD burner software. So where to download the CD burners?