Burning CDs or using USB for my car?

[twenteen]

Hi first of all I would like to apologize for my noob questions, I've wasted so much time I figure I just ask here. I am trying to play high quality sound from my car. I have flac audio files and I converted them to wav format. Then I burned those wav files to a CD-R and tried to play it in my car, it didn’t work. I did a lot of googling, trial and error and found out that I had to convert the wav files to to .CDA in order for them to be played in my car.

My questions are:

- is there any quality loss when I burn the wav files to .cda?

- If I store the wav files on a USB will the quality be the same as the audio files played from a burned CD? Am I wasting my time putting it on a CD over a USB?

- What are my options so I don’t have to sacrifice any sound quality?

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[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

Hi first of all I would like to apologize for my noob questions, I've wasted so much time I figure I just ask here. I am trying to play high quality sound from my car. I have flac audio files and I converted them to wav format. Then I burned those wav files to a CD-R and tried to play it in my car, it didn’t work. I did a lot of googling, trial and error and found out that I had to convert the wav files to to .CDA in order for them to be played in my car.
My questions are:

- is there any quality loss when I burn the wav files to .cda?

- If I store the wav files on a USB will the quality be the same as the audio files played from a burned CD? Am I wasting my time putting it on a CD over a USB?

- What are my options so I don’t have to sacrifice any sound quality?

USB. CD is outdated and all the information is the same when you have lossless files.

Focus more on having a proper head unit with proper sound quality tuning options, a proper audio install with acoustical treatments, speaker placement and amplifier power rather than just the source because those make a much bigger impact on sound quality then just worrying about the source.

This means a person that takes care of these issues stream spotify via bluetooth it'll sound 10000x better than a guy that doesnt take care of any of this and just plays lossless files.

 

[twenteen]

USB. CD is outdated and all the information is the same when you have lossless files.
Focus more on having a proper head unit with proper sound quality tuning options, a proper audio install with acoustical treatments, speaker placement and amplifier power rather than just the source because those make a much bigger impact on sound quality then just worrying about the source.

This means a person that takes care of these issues stream spotify via bluetooth it'll sound 10000x better than a guy that doesnt take care of any of this and just plays flac.

Thanks for the quick response. Ahh I don't know why I didn't pick up on that before : all the information is the same when you have lossless files. That makes sense. Thanks for the other pointers as well