Subject:Song/Track breaks

Posted by: Freekystyle

Date:12/28/2000 3:05:00 PM

I was curious if anyone knows the easiest, most efficient
way to put breaks into a song. I currently have lots of
mp3s, a lot of which are whole CD, single mp3s. I need an
easier way to insert song breaks, so that I can put them on
a CD and have numerous tracks rather than one long 74 min
track. This is the process that I currently undergo to
acheive this:

-I'll convert to wav (I do a bunch before I go to bed)
-open it in Soundforge (this usually takes a while)
-determine where I'd like to break the songs up
-Cut that portion out. (this usually exceeds a couple of
minutes)
-Open a new sound, and paste it right on in there
-save the new wav file as track x.

I'm sure that there is a much easier, *less time consuming*
way of doing this. Last night it took me about 4 hours to
do just one CD. It is so much more pleasing listening to a
CD when you have control over the songs, not just fast
forwarding over parts of one long track.
Thanks a Bunch!
Derek

Subject:Re: Song/Track breaks

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:12/29/2000 1:35:00 PM

You can purchase a program like Nero, which allows you to
drag and drop mp3 files in a playlist manor, where each
playlist file becomes a seperate Track ID and it also
allows you to put a default spacing between the tracks,
there is no need to convert to wav first, it does it
automatically for you when it burns the CD.

Or if you really want to get tricky. You can just burn all
your MP3 files to a CD rom and get Siren and every MP3 file
will be a track using Siren, of course you won't be able to
play the songs in your car stereo.....well at least not til
next year when car stereos will be able to play MP3 files
off of a CDrom.

Derek wrote:
>>I was curious if anyone knows the easiest, most efficient
>>way to put breaks into a song. I currently have lots of
>>mp3s, a lot of which are whole CD, single mp3s. I need
an
>>easier way to insert song breaks, so that I can put them
on
>>a CD and have numerous tracks rather than one long 74 min
>>track. This is the process that I currently undergo to
>>acheive this:
>>
>>-I'll convert to wav (I do a bunch before I go to bed)
>>-open it in Soundforge (this usually takes a while)
>>-determine where I'd like to break the songs up
>>-Cut that portion out. (this usually exceeds a couple of
>>minutes)
>>-Open a new sound, and paste it right on in there
>>-save the new wav file as track x.
>>
>>I'm sure that there is a much easier, *less time
consuming*
>>way of doing this. Last night it took me about 4 hours
to
>>do just one CD. It is so much more pleasing listening to
a
>>CD when you have control over the songs, not just fast
>>forwarding over parts of one long track.
>>Thanks a Bunch!
>>Derek
>>