seamless album, no pause between certain tracks

[cadillacvernon]

Not sure if this is the right place for this thread, but I didn't know where else to post it.

I have a bunch of original tracks that I want to put on a CD and make an album out of. But i want some tracks to run together. That is, i want no pause at all between, say Tracks 4 and 5, but I still want the track number to change. so in what seems like the middle of the song, the track number will change from 4 to 5 without any pause in the audio.

I know you can do this with Toast by setting the in-between-track pause to zero seconds, but i don't want all the tracks on the album to run together, just some of them. Is this possible?

 

[Whale Bone]

With Nero you can set that gap on each track.

If this is a CD you're having professionally pressed, then you should discuss it with the folks making the CD.

Lo-fi workaround: If you really can't manipulate the gaps on individual tracks independently (or have access to a burner that can), then you could set them all to 0 and add 2-second silences at the end of your tracks where you want the gap.

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Not sure if this is the right place for this thread, but I didn't know where else to post it.

I have a bunch of original tracks that I want to put on a CD and make an album out of.

The second sentence answers the first one. Since the second sentence describes the mastering process, this question would be best suited in the "mixing/mastering" forum.

But you're here now, so let's move ahead.

But i want some tracks to run together. That is, i want no pause at all between, say Tracks 4 and 5, but I still want the track number to change. so in what seems like the middle of the song, the track number will change from 4 to 5 without any pause in the audio.

I know you can do this with Toast by setting the in-between-track pause to zero seconds, but i don't want all the tracks on the album to run together, just some of them. Is this possible?

Yep, any decent mastering software such as CD Architect or Wavelab will handle this just fine. (NOTE: we're talking actual mastering software here, not crap collections of equalizers and limiters that wrongly call themselves "mastering software".)

G.