Audacity Forum

I took on this free lance job and the client wants to know if I can do this, bare with me it's a bit convoluted.

I was wondering if there was a way to keep an hour long track just one master track track in the audacity program but have it play as 20 different tracks on a CD.

The client said there's something in the user's manual about how to do this (he just doesn't have time to learn) but I have a feeling he's talking about the "export selections as function."

I havn't been able to find anything about it.

That sure sounds like it. Once your get your hour-long track as edited and processed as you want it, Export As WAV to get a backup sound file against the time your whole world goes into the toilet.

Then put a Label (I think Control-B on a Windows machine) at the beginning of each song you want to play as a separate song, then Export Multiple > WAV format. Do Not Compress the work to "help out" the CD authoring software.

In the burning software of your choice, there may be an option to eliminate the 2-second gap between songs. That should give you a continuous performance where you can jump to any place where you placed a label.

A quick note, Audacity wakes up from First Birthday in 32-bit floating sound format. Many CD programs don't like that. Reset to 16 bit in Audacity Preferences.

Koz

That worked great! Thanks for the heads up on the rate issue as well, that would have had me perplexed for awhile as well. Theres no possible way to keep that as one master track thats split up into different parts is there?