Making a CD music collation

I'm sure this has been asked and answered before, but I can't find anything on it so I'm just going to have to ask again. If I'm being redundant, I apologize and would be grateful if someone would point me to the thread that my searching has missed.

I would like to take one or two pieces of music off of each of my CD's and put them onto one CD so that I can take that one with me and play it on the CD player in the car. Then I'm carrying fewer CD's and safety is enhanced since I'm not changing channels searching for the piece I want and changing CD's while driving. I don't think there's anything non-kosher about the copying, since they are properly purchased CD's and the copy I will make is strictly for my own personal use.

The problem is that all of the "rippers" I have found record in "wav" or "mp3" format, none of which can be played on a CD player. When I look at the music CD all of the tracks have a "name.cda" format and I don't seem to have any way to duplicate that.

Is there a way to do what I want?

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The tracks need to ripped off as Wav or mp3 to be compatible. Wav is the standard for commercial music cd's that will run in 'any' player. The mp3 format is compressed so as many more songs can be recorded to the CD. But it needs a player that's compat.
Best ripper/converter around in my experience is dBPower AMP . It's no longer free,but well worth the money imho...

Or Nero.. here's a tutorial that explains how it would work... worth reading anyway for some general info..

http://ww2.nero.com/nero6/us/Tutoria...ic_CD_DVD.html

"create a standard audio cd"

Whether you use dBpowerAmp or Exact Audio Copy {EAC}, use a slow rip, and a slow burn when you make you Audio cds.

You will hear the difference.
4X rip and burn is what I like.

Hi Bill, here is a program that will allow you to pick & choose what songs you like on your cd's, then record them onto your hard drive into a library of the program, then you can pick the songs from the library to burn to cd thru the same program to play on any cd player. I have been using it for years & have never made a bad cd with it. Try it, you will like it. BJ

http://www.musicmatch.com/

Wow, thanks for all the input. I will go to work with it.
I didn't realize CD players would play *.wav files.

they can't play *.wav files...
But the actual data on the CD is encoded in the same format that waves are encoded in