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Audacity Error message - Ripping a CD to an audio file

I tried to open a CD using Audacity and got the following error message.
How can I open a CD in Audacity? How do I rip?

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Dr. Klahn

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☠ MASQ ☠

.cda files aren't audio they are placemarkers for the audio bitstream on the CD
The Audacity team recommend CDex for this
http://cdex.mu/
Use CDex to "rip" the tracks as .wav to your PC and then import the .wav to audacity using the same process you were using on the .cda files

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brothertruffle880

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Hi MASQ:
Here's the message I received travelling to the link you supplied:

brothertruffle880

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Thank you all!

BillDL

Thank you brothertruffle

I think that the message you were shown (about the CDex site being dangerous) is not because the actual site has been flagged, but because the program now has (an) additional unwelcome program(s) packed into it. Last year they added something called Opencandy to the installer package.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCandy

☠ MASQ ☠

Thanks for the feedback on that, I checked their downloads and they don't have OpenCandy (which you certainly don't want) bundled with the "currently recommended" links (which are portable apps that don't install and just run form the folder you unpack them to). Some correspondence later with the Audacity team and CDex suggest they've had their fingers burnt with advertising revenue from OpenCandy and now provide the product ad free - and it seems the links to the ad containing version are down.