Does anybody know of modern software which will compress .WAV files so that they can be played on an ordinary card CD player which does NOT play MP3 or similarly compressed files. I would like to increase the number of files on an ordinary CD and have seen somebody write in to a forum that software producers have introduced such programs. Unfortunately, no mention was made of the name of any of these programs (if they do actually exist).

on an ordinary cd, compression doesnt make a difference. It is done by minautes, not by space. On some players they play mp3 data cds, so you can fit more music onto a disk because of space... i dont know of any player that plays .wav files, but if you wanted to compress the you would need to find a program that reduced bitrate.

That's precisely what Audio CDs are.

i meant as data files

Yes TimC is right though - CD Audio is stored as data comprising .wav (ie PCM-encoded) files linked to by a series of .cda files (the rough equivalent of a Windows 'shortcut').

I wonder whether our OP is becoming confused with the non-lossy codecs such as flac... but I doubt whether any car CD player would be able to play those either

As I understand it the original poster wants to fit more music on his regular CD to play on a regular car player. The only way to do that would be using a Plextor Drive with gigarec or 90Mins or bigger CD-Rs

and even then, the CD player will probably choke because the CD's don't conform to specs.

If you need to burn more than 80 minutes to CD, the burn 2 CD's. Pick a nice split point so that switching CD's isn't too annoying.

Yes playback compatibility will be lower but Gigarec (not too high settings) or 90mins+CDs is the only way to burn more minutes to a CD-R when using normal CD players.