I have recorded a few of my vinyl records for listening in the car. Is there any way I can add chapter breaks, for individual tracks, within a single audio file, to save having to split a file into individual tracks? I know I can add labels to files, but these appear to be a different thing altogether.
Right, labels are an Audacity feature.
What format?
None of the standard audio “computer formats” support tracks or chapters. All of the “shiny disc” formats do.
There may be audiobook formats that support chapters, and I believe that MKA (and MKV) do also. But of course you player or player software also has to support them.
If you by an MP3 album from amazon of an AAC/M4A file from iTunes you get separate files for each track. As long as the tracks are “tagged” with the track number, your player software should be able to play them in track-order.
At the minute I’m saving the tracks as flac files. But depending on how many tracks there are on an album, I could be sitting for quite a while cutting and pasting to new tracks, adding tag details etc. If I was able to add chapters within a single file, it would certainly make my life a lot easier.
It doesn’t take THAT much longer than labeling the tracks. I don’t normally bother labeling. I usually select/highlight one song at a time and then export Current Selection, one song/file at a time. Sometimes I’ll export a little extra, then re-open and trim.
Tagging takes a little longer because you’ll want to add the song titles and track numbers. (You can only have one set of tags per file.)
I normally use Mp3Tag (which works on all of the standard formats, not just MP3). You can select a folder full of files (usually an album) and enter all of the common information once, before adding the title, track number, and any other unique information. It also allows you to ad album artwork, which Audacity does not.
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