Creating individual audio tracks

[L J Aherwadkar]

How can I name individual songs while recording an audio cassette with Audacity 1.2.6 and export these so that they could be burnt on CD and displayed on Windows Media Player as a playlist of each individual song. Although I have labelled the tracks individually, after exporting them in WAV form and burning them, the individual labels are not displayed as playlist on Windows Media Player. Kindly indicate the step by step procedure I should follow for overcoming this problem. Secondly, how can I listen the songs when they are being recorded so that I can adjust the volume.

[flapjack47]

I think with Windows Media Player you have to tell it exactly what kind of playlist you want- what songs, in what order, etc....

[steve]

Standard audio CDs do not contain text data - for commercial CDs, WMP gets the track listing off the internet from the CDs id. For home grown CDs you need to make the track list manually.

For data CDs that can be played on a computer but not on CD players, you can Export as MP3 (or another compressed format such as Ogg or FLAC) and enter Metadata (id3 tags) before exporting. To do that, use the the metatag editor (it pops up automatically by default, or you can select it manually). WMP (and most other media players can read metatag data.

WAV files and audio CDs do not support metatag data so you need to make your playlist in WMP manually. Don't ask me how - I never use WMP.