How Do I Mark Tracks When Burning a CD?

[mesboogie]

I am on a tape tree (fully endorsed by the artist) where the "seed", or starting copy, is an analogue cassette. I've been asked to transfer the show from cassette and burn to CDR. Extracting the wav file was pretty easy (and pretty huge). I've got two 30 minute wav tracks that are around 325MB each!

I want to know how to insert track ID's so that when I burn the show to CDR, a person can search between songs. My first burn left me with 2 tracks (one for each wav file). I still have the wav files. What do I need to do to put track markers in?

Thanks!

-MesBoogie

P.S. - Thanks to those folks that offered help earlier to my "newbie" posts. The Behringer 8 channel mixer is working wonderfully. I still have to pick up a decent mic but am borrowing one at present.

 

[sonusman]

Try this for now....

Download the demo version of Goldwave ( http://www.goldwave.com ) and open the big file. Being very careful that keep track of your edit points, take what you want to be the first tracl(remember where you EXACT end point is, down to the sample) then delete the audio after that end point. Save this new file in the Save As under File. You haven't hurt your original big .wav file, it is still on the drive.

Now, reopen the whole big file and delete the audio up to the point of where you first song ended (at the same exact sample that the first song ended. Then, delete all the audio after what you want to be the second track (remember your end edit point!!) Do another Save As of this file (remember to name you files differently so you know what is what). Repeat until you have all the different songs you want as sperate .wav files.

Open your CDR authoring software and make a Audio CD, but make sure that you don't have any Pause between tracks. A lot of CDR burning software insert a certain amount of Pause between audio tracks as a default. Your's may or may not, just make sure you check. You don't want any pause at all. Keep adding the individual songs in their original order in the burning software then burn the CDR using Disk At Once mode.

Vola'!!! When the CD is played it will play continuously, and the user can go from song to song.

Now, if you have Wavelab, you can just open the big .wav file and drop track markers then burn the CD from the internal CD burner software in Wavelab.

If your burning software has the option, you may be able to insert track markers in it. I don't know what you use, and I only use Wavelab to burn Audio CD's, so I only know how it works, but you may be able to drop track markers from your burning software. If so, you will need to define at what start and end points you want each track to be.

Wavelab is easier though....

Good luck.

Ed