Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your CDDA file.
You'll see a preview.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert CDDA to another file type
The converter easily converts your CDDA file to various formats - free and online. No Media Player or extra software needed.
Convert a file to CDDA
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Audio formats to CDDA with high quality output.
About CDDA files
A .CDDA file typically represents a Compact Disc Digital Audio track, most often seen as a virtual shortcut on an Audio CD (similar to CDA). In this context, the file itself does not contain audio data; it is merely a 44-byte index pointer that tells the computer where the music starts on the physical disc. Users often struggle when they try to "drag and drop" these files from a CD to their desktop, only to find the files are unplayable and tiny (bytes, not megabytes) once the disc is ejected. Less commonly, a .CDDA file may be a raw PCM audio dump (AIFF/WAV without headers) extracted by specific audio engineering tools. To use these files effectively, they must be "ripped" from the disc using software like iTunes or Exact Audio Copy, or converted from raw data to standard containers like MP3 for web use, FLAC for archiving, or WAV for editing.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your CDDA file.
If you want to convert CDDA file to MP3, WAV, CDA, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC or APE, you can use iTunes or similar software from the "CD Audio Track Shortcut" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MIDI, AAC, TTA, AU, WV, DTS, MID, FLAC, RA, MP3, PCM or WAV files to CDDA, try iTunes or another comparable tool in the "CD Audio Track Shortcut" category.
The CDDA Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our CDDA converter.