Mix CD to individual tracks

[crazypctech]

Hello,

I am not sure if this is even the right forum for this but I don't know where else to turn.

I am trying to take a 117 minute recording from a DJ Set and record it to an audio CD that has the ability to select individual tracks.

I have tried Marking the tracks in audacity and making individual tracks out of the 117 minute long mix I then tried to record all of the individual tracks in order to an audio CD using iTunes, Roxio, Nero and a few other CD burning programs all of them resulted in a pause between tracks even when I had specifically put in 0 for the pause between tracks

I then tried mastering the CD in Sony's CD Architect, I marked all the tracks, it warned it was over 74 minutes for redbook specification so I clipped the final track to keep it within time constraint. I still have stutter/skips between tracks as it switches from one track to the next.

I know it is possible to make a seamless mix cd that you can select individual tracks I own several of these CD's but so far I cannot make one. Can anyone help or offer any recommendations. I do not know what I am doing wrong. I desperately need to figure this out as I am trying to make Promo CD's of my DJ sets to get gigs.

 

[mjbphotos]

If the files are in WAV or AICC format, 74 minutes is the maximum you can put on a CD-R. You could burn to a DVD-R, but that might limit th emachines you can use for playback. Chances are when you divide up the original, there are fractions of a second of blank space being added to each file (you could look at the magnified waveform in audacity to see). You would need to clip these smal blank areas of each file.
Note that what you descibe is not unusual, I have received USB sticks from shows with the files on them and when I burn them to a CD, I ge tthe same little stutters at times, if there is any sound at that point.

 

[crazypctech]

If the files are in WAV or AICC format, 74 minutes is the maximum you can put on a CD-R. You could burn to a DVD-R, but that might limit th emachines you can use for playback. Chances are when you divide up the original, there are fractions of a second of blank space being added to each file (you could look at the magnified waveform in audacity to see). You would need to clip these smal blank areas of each file.
Note that what you descibe is not unusual, I have received USB sticks from shows with the files on them and when I burn them to a CD, I ge tthe same little stutters at times, if there is any sound at that point.

It is in WAV format. I

misspoke it is an 1 hour 17 minutes (77 minutes) (not 117 minutes lol) and I clipped down to 74 minutes.

I did it two ways, the one way was in audacity and divided the entire WAV file into individual tracks

The other way was having the full length wav in Sony CD architect and then putting track markers in. This does allow the selection of individual tracks but I still get a stutter or skip as it changes between tracks (right in the middle of my transitions) however this stutter or skip happens on my Car CD player and a portable CD Player. It does not happen on my PC. I have also tried burning on my Laptop and my desktop computers with the same results.

 

[bouldersoundguy]

Maybe what you're doing in CD Architect is correct but the players mentioned can't play continuous audio from one track to the next. Have you tried commercially released live recordings that have no silence between tracks on those players?

 

[crazypctech]

Maybe what you're doing in CD Architect is correct but the players mentioned can't play continuous audio from one track to the next. Have you tried commercially released live recordings that have no silence between tracks on those players?

Yes I have. I have Mix CD from a Club DJ from back in the 90's that is continuous (no pauses) but you can select individual tracks. I also have this CD as well which is an 88 track continuous mix on 2 Cd's Amazon.com: Techno Marathon 5

both play flawlessly. That is why I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong and its driving me nuts.