One sound file or mulitple sound files???

[geelsu]

Hi all,
I made my first ever tape to cd recording last night. (Applause, cheers, the crowd goes wild....)

Two things...

One thought that keep crossing my mind was should I make individual sound files
for each song on the tape, or record the whole tape into one large file. How
do you pros do it? For my first cd I had 10 individual tracks and put 10 individual
tracks onto the cd. My daughter's "cheapy" cd player played the CD pretty well.
I listened to track 1 and after that it went onto track 2.

However, the fancy windows players like Windows Media Player, Real Player, etc saw
track 1. I then had to load each track separately. How do you get a CD to work better
in the Windows players? Is there a way to make the homemade CD appear more
"Store Bought" so that it starts playing automatically and moved track to track
automatically?

Thanks

 

[Slackmaster2K]

An audio CDR is for all intents and purposes equivalent to a regular audio CD. You don't have to do anything to "make it work more like a real CD." Have you tried a real CD with windows media player? Which version of media player? If you're using Media Player 6, then you have to select each track seperately. In this case you should be using the CD Player instead (start->programs->accessories->entertainment->cd player). If you're using Media Player 7, it will play through an entire CD like any old CD player.

As far as recording from tape...personally I like to record an entire side into one wave file, then split the file manually...it's just a hell of a lot easier to edit this way, and you don't have to supervise the recording.

Slackmaster 2000