burning cd

[adrianplunkett]

simple question:

i have a live recording of several songs. i want to burn it all onto cd and insert track markers before each new track, so i can select tracks when playing back. how do i do this?

i tried breaking it down into individual tracks and burning them all onto a cd, but each track has 2 seconds of silence inserted, which breaks up the continuity.

i am a relative novice with sound forge, so please explain in simple terms

thanks
adrian

 

[rboyce_boston]

Use CD Architect

You can do this easily with an application called CD Architect (made by the same people who make Sound Forge). It's integrated nicely with Sound Forge. If you use Sound Forge as your primarily editor, and you plan on burning CD's of your edited songs, then I would invest in this program.

Hope this helps.

ray

 

[rboyce_boston]

use "Disc at Once" instead of "Track At Once" when burning

Also....the reason you might be getting a 2 second gap is because you are using the "Track At Once" method when burning CD's. Make sure you use the "Disc at Once" in order to avoid a 2 second gap.

-ray

 

[adrianplunkett]

thanks ray.

me being stupid - how do i change to "disc at once". can't seem to find it. must be in options somewhere?

cheers,
adrian

 

[rboyce_boston]

From what I can tell, Sound Forge will always write in "Track at Once" mode, since you're always working on one file at a time within the application, and it only lets you add tracks to a CD one at a time. It's CD burning capabilities are very basic - the intention is to let you back up your work rather than to create a master CD of multiple tracks that adheres to Red Book standards. I never use Sound Forge to burn CD's.

Like I said, I would use another program, like Roxio Easy CD Creator (okay) or Sonic Foundry's CD Architect (better), if your intention is to make a CD that is created from multiple .wav files (that you have edited in Sound Forge, for example). Both of those programs allow you to choose between "Track at Once" and "Disc at Once" modes. Given the situation you describe, I think you have 2 options:

1) Use Sonic Foundry's CD Architect to insert individual track ID's within the large .wav file (the one that contains multiple songs/performances). I do a lot of live recording of shows and concerts on my MiniDisc, and this is how I break my recording into individual tracks without creating gaps on my finished audio CD.

2) Create seperate .wav files for each of your "tracks", and then use either one of those programs to create an audio CD comprised of the wav files you've created/edited in Sound Forge. Just make sure you use the "Disc at Once" method to avoid creating a 2 second gap. And make sure the default pause time is set to "0".

Hope this helps.

ray