Why CD audio tracks are all 44bytes?

• Fire Star

  8 May 07, 02:12

  
  
  How is it possible? Also this this some DRM as I can't play the copied file?
• the_unknown

  8 May 07, 02:41

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_Audio_track
  A CD Audio Track or .cda file is a small (44 bytes) file generated by Microsoft Windows for each track on an audio CD. The file contains indexing information that programs can use to play or rip the disc. The files are given names in the format Track??.cda.
  
  The .cda files do not contain the actual PCM wave data, but instead tell where on the disc the track starts and stops. If the file is copied from the CD-ROM to the computer, it becomes useless, since it is only a shortcut to part of the disc. However, some audio editing and CD creation programs will, from the user's perspective, load .cda files as though they are actual audio data files.
  

  i think you need to rip the cd to make the songs playable on PC ...