.CDA

📌 A .CDA object is generally associated with a shortcut to a track on an audio CD disk. Some certain revisions of Windows generate .CDA items when a user attempts to load an audio CD via their CD drive. Users are suggested and offered a way to double-click a relevant .CDA entry to play the track to which the respective file references (considering that the CD disk is inserted into the proper CD drive). Obviously, you will encounter the .CDA marker in Windows File Explorer, when reviewing the contents of an audio CD you’ve formerly loaded via your CD drive. For these categories of CDs (precisely, Compact Disc Digital Audio CDs), Windows generates .CDA items in the automatic way, which can be utilized to playback and jump to the specific track sequences. As it is clear from the format discovery, the .CDA entries do not contain the audio tracks themselves. Instead, they maintain pointers to the locations at which an audio track is stored on a target audio CD disc. Therefore, if you attempt to open up a .CDA object without a peculiar audio CD inserted into your optical drive, the file would not be opened (and no audio would be played, certainly).

How to open an .CDA file?

📌 The .CDA extension resources are clearly recognizable and processed by all major media-players, such as Microsoft Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, VLC, Winamp, JRiver Media Center, AIMP, and lots of other complementary suites. The .CDA-shaped track markers are available for review and opening in scope of any common desktop operating system, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and all of their associated forks and distributions. As long as playing the .CDA associated CD tracks requires original optical disk to be inserted into your CD-drive, none of .CDA entries cannot be comprehended and sustained within mobile Android and iOS gadgets.