Editing tracks after creating a cd -ACID Product Family

Subject:Editing tracks after creating a cd Posted by: Hatch Date:8/12/2002 4:39:30 PM I have burnt a cd using Acid 2.0. I would like to go back and edit a song. When I bring up this song, it shows an icon of a harddrive/cd player. But, here's the problem, it only plays it now as one track(all tracks combined) and not the individual tracks I used. 1. Can I edit tracks after going to cd? 2. Should I save differently? 3. Is there a way to make this work that I can save audio to a cd and also have the tracks remain in its original form? Thanks for any help you can give. Hatch
Subject:RE: Editing tracks after creating a cd Reply by: anon Date:8/12/2002 4:56:31 PM I'm assuming you've got a continously mixed CD. To break it up into individual tracks but without pauses inbetween songs (track at once capability) try a CD creating program like Nero. If you don't mind pauses inbetween the tracks, just burn each song seperately.
Subject:RE: Editing tracks after creating a cd Reply by: SPP Date:8/12/2002 10:48:21 PM Hey Hatch, >1. Can I edit tracks after going to cd? >2. Should I save differently? That depends on how you saved the song, and if the CD is rendered for playback in a CD player or used just for storage. It sounds to me like you rendered the song using the "create CD" feature as opposed to "Save" or "Save as", and therefore merged all the tracks onto one stereo track. If you want to put your raw Acid project on a CD you can do that, BUT you need to use "Save" or "Save as" and also check the box that says "copy all media with project" (for the sake of convinience) when you save the .acd file. You should be able to bring that back into Acid to make your track edits. You'll only be able to resave on that CD with the same file name if you have a CD-RW and use the appropriate blank CDs. Otherwise you'll have to save it elsewhere. IE. another CD, hard drive, zip drive, etc. >3. Is there a way to make this work that I can save audio to a cd and also have the tracks remain in its original form? Not sure I understand exactly what you want to do. If you are trying to make a CD to play on a CD player AND have your original raw files you may have to get third party CD burning software that allows you to make combination CDs. If that's NOT the case, then do this: Give the .acd file a slightly different name such as “project name”, “project name2”,“project name3” and so on. That way you’ll insure you don’t destroy your original song if a week later you decide you don’t like the changes after all. Again, this depends on how you want to use the CD. If you've used Acid to close the CD as an audio playback CD, and want reopen it to edit the song file, you're screwed. If you're intending to use the CD for storage only, then the above method will work just fine. Read up on "Save" and "Create CD" in the help file to really understand the difference. Good luck! HTH Steve

Hey Hatch,

>1. Can I edit tracks after going to cd?
>2. Should I save differently?

That depends on how you saved the song, and if the CD is rendered for playback in a CD player or used just for storage. It sounds to me like you rendered the song using the "create CD" feature as opposed to "Save" or "Save as", and therefore merged all the tracks onto one stereo track. If you want to put your raw Acid project on a CD you can do that, BUT you need to use "Save" or "Save as" and also check the box that says "copy all media with project" (for the sake of convinience) when you save the .acd file. You should be able to bring that back into Acid to make your track edits. You'll only be able to resave on that CD with the same file name if you have a CD-RW and use the appropriate blank CDs. Otherwise you'll have to save it elsewhere. IE. another CD, hard drive, zip drive, etc.

>3. Is there a way to make this work that I can save audio to a cd and also have the tracks remain in its original form?

Not sure I understand exactly what you want to do. If you are trying to make a CD to play on a CD player AND have your original raw files you may have to get third party CD burning software that allows you to make combination CDs. If that's NOT the case, then do this: Give the .acd file a slightly different name such as “project name”, “project name2”,“project name3” and so on. That way you’ll insure you don’t destroy your original song if a week later you decide you don’t like the changes after all. Again, this depends on how you want to use the CD. If you've used Acid to close the CD as an audio playback CD, and want reopen it to edit the song file, you're screwed. If you're intending to use the CD for storage only, then the above method will work just fine. Read up on "Save" and "Create CD" in the help file to really understand the difference. Good luck!

HTH

Steve