Making CD's from LP's and being able to play songs at random

[philb1]

I have been able to record and make a nice Car CD with Audacity from some old reel to reels. The CD's play song after song till the end. I want to be able to jump to a particular song which of course requires skipping songs by advancing with a selection button. Just like standard CD will do. I believe one should call that changing tracks.
I tried to use the label function and I started from song one so the count would be 1,2,3 etc. There happens to be 15 songs with this CD I made but the car player only sees ONE Track.
I ruined that last 90 min. recording on Audacity by adding the labels after I recorded. Now it wont play.
Help ME please. Phillip

[kozikowski]

What's supposed to happen is that the labels will cause multiple separate audio tracks to be generated. You end up with a pile of WAV files or whatever format you did the Export Multiple... in. Collect them and reorder them as necessary, dump them into your burner program and poof. You can't do this with Save. Save in Audacity will not produce audio tracks--or at least not very good ones.

Since you had to Export something to get your original CD, what happened to that file? Won't that open up in Audacity?

If everything goes into the toilet, you can rip that CD to get your tracks back. Don't lose that CD.

Koz

[philb1]

I took the original file or track that was one long track 90 min and burned it to a CD. That works great but without the ablitlity to change songs. So I went back to those files in audacity opened them and started placing the little flags/label at the beginning of each song. When I saved the file after this addition and tried to have audacity play them, it would not. Neither would my Roxio record it nor would Window Media play it.
I will try ripping from the CD I made and re-install the labels/flags and not save but export as a wav.file. I'll just keep trying. Thanks for mentioning about the ability to rip from the CD. That will SAVE much time from using the original tape.
Phillip

[steve]

Here's a step by step guide for splitting long tracks:
http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=files&i=split
Hope it helps

[kozikowski]

After you finish that, click the little "x" at the left of the label track and you should be back to your original sound track, plus all the little puppies that the export gave you. The puppies should be labeled piano-1, piano-2, piano-3, etc assuming "piano" was the name you picked. If you have Windows showing you file extensions (it's optional) then the files will be piano-1.wav, piano-2.wav...

I personally would not be creating MP3s right there. Windows Media (or the burner of your choice) will manage each file again and add distortion at each step. Stick with WAVs.

Koz

[philb1]

These replys do help. Thanks very much. I honestly expected this new computer from Dell to have everything explained like you men did for me. After all this was the Media Edition PC

thanks again