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I have some WAV files and when I try to burn them to an audio CD, the burner software rejects them – why?

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I have some WAV files and when I try to burn them to an audio CD, the burner software rejects them – why?

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The problem is almost certainly that whilst they are indeed valid WAV files, they are *not* valid files for CD audio. CD audio *only* supports a sampling rate of 44.1 Khz and a sample size of 16 bits, in stereo (two channels). If your WAV file does not correspond with these parameters (most commonly because the sampling rate is different, e.g. 48 Khz), then a CD burning program will *not* accept it. The process of converting MP3 to WAV simply undoes the MP3 compression… it does *not* change things such as the sampling rate. To make these WAV files you have produced suitable for burning to CD audio you will need to perform an additional step: use a WAV editing program (such as Goldwave, available from www.goldwave.com) to “resample” the WAV files… convert them to 44.1 KHz, 16 bit, stereo – then your software should accept them for burning to CD without a problem.