I can readily find the help topic for how to split a recording into separate tracks, but what I want to do is the exact opposite, and I can’t seem to find anything on that. I have several skippy old audio CDs in my collection which resulted in several songs on them being split into more than one mp3 file when I tried to rip them to my music library on my new computer; I’ve been looking for a program to splice those multiple files back into one single mp3 per song and I’m hoping Audacity is it if I can figure this out. I have Audacity 2.1.0, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1, and I believe I download the .exe installer. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.
Audacity can do this http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_editing.html#join but it is the wrong tool for the job. When you export the result of joining the MP3 files as a single MP3, Audacity will have to rewrite as a new MP3 which will make the audio worse quality than before.
Use MP3DirectCut or similar which can join MP3 files losslessly: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/MP3#re-encode.
Gale
Oh thank you!