In your burning program, choose to burn CD Audio or Audio CD, however it is labeled, then point to wherever your .wav files are. The program should auto convert to CD audio before the burn, making it ...

I've used EAC to do this. Instead of ripping individual tracks, tell it you want to "Copy Image & CUE Sheet." That will make a single WAV file of the entire CD, then you can convert to MP3 from that.

Digital sound is nothing more than numbers. What separates one container from another is how those numbers are packed, how much data (if any) is thrown away, and which devices understand the result.