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Nero is usually bundled with new computers (sometimes Roxio instead) and with new burners.
When you burn a cd there is either Wav or Aiff files on the disk, cda is just a marker to the data on the disk.
When you tell your cd burning program to burn as an audio cd (not data) it does this automatically.