At 08:15 PM 11/16/2006, dhbailey wrote: >No, those .cda files are files. They're 1KB in size, all of them (which >should be a clear indicator that they don't contain the audio data) and >they are copyable.
Yes, but I believe they are created on the fly by Windows when you look at an audio CD -- they don't really exist on the CD, and there is no FAT or NTFS file system on an audio CD.
From <http://bladeenc.mp3.no/skeleton/FAQ.html> : >First of all, music CD's does NOT contain CDA-files, they contain raw >sound data which isn't organised into files at all. It's just a >continuous stream of sound data that could be compared to what you >have on a normal audio casette or vinyl record. The only difference is >that it's digitally encoded and that you have some information in the >beginning telling the CD player the number of tracks and where they >start and end. If you try to view the contents of a music CD in >Windows you will be shown a number of files called Track01.cda, >Track02.cda etc. This is just Windows way of telling you that its a >music CD with a certain number of tracks. The CDA-files isn't on the >CD, they're just an illusion, provided by Windows. Aaron. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
