Farm boy

Ive got a heap of albums downloaded from the internet (aint broadband great!) can anybody suggest anything for splitting up the album into its tracks so that a CD player can skip from track to track.

DJ Dunk

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Depends if you want to split by time or split it by ear.

CDRWin has an option to split one big track into multiple tracks as it burns, you just need to input the times at which you want the breaks to appear. I think Nero does this too.

Otherwise its a pretty laborious task splitting it up using a sound editor such as Sonic Soundry Sound Forge, which I generally use as its more accurate.

I assume these MP3's are continuous mixes ? Otherwisw there is plenty of software around that will detect and split at silences.

HTH

bioforger

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Soundforge. What u doing downloading albums in one file/album? Get your albums track by track in mp3, then you wont need to bother with splitting.

ChrisB

How about the reverse? Mixed album ripped into multiple MP3s, but I'd like to burn my data MP3 CDs without gaps.

Obviously can set inter track gap on Nero to 0 but anyother tips?

DJ Dunk

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Chris - Best to try out different software. Some does this better then others. CDRWin used to be the daddy at click free track transitions but not any more.

Like you say, set the pregap to 0 and burn disk-at-once is the best method.

ChrisB

Cheers Dunk.

Something I've just thought of and might try at some point - do a binary copy of the MP3s into one file.

ie copy track1.mp3 + track2.mp3 CD.mp3

and then burn to CD.

Wonder how that will come out?

[Edited by ChrisB - 1/13/2003 3:41:47 PM]

DJ Dunk

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Ooops, just read your post again, you want a data CD not CDA one.

In that case there are loads of programs to join them all together, but obviously you lose the ability to skip tracks. Do a Google for "Free MP3 Join Tool"

Your DOS method will work fine too

Edit* Just check first that your MP3's don't have little silences at the start or end that might ruin the mix.

[Edited by DJ Dunk - 1/13/2003 3:46:42 PM]

ChrisB

Yup, data CDs - new Alpine ICE setup in my new car is MP3 ready. I've been busy ripping and tagging [1] and found a single data CD is the same as about 5 double CD albums

[1] Which is another annoynence - so much variation in how people tag MP3 tracks. Pull the details down from FreeDB.org and most need tidying up a bit. Mix CDs are the worst. Number of times people put the track name and artist into the the track name field and leave artist as "Various"

DJ Dunk

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Yeah, people are lazy with ID3 tags.

I always tidy them up and put my tag in the comment too

Stevep

Just something cool I found a couple of weeks back.
ALBUM WRAPS.
A whole album of mp3's wrapped into 1 mp3 that will play and split back down again into each separate track.
They can be split with a free album wrap extractor.
Quality!!!
Just type albumwrap in Kazaa lite!!

Enjoy

Steve

[Edited by Stevep - 1/13/2003 4:09:47 PM]

DJ Dunk

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Albumwrap