Audacity Forum

I have a number of books I've written a few years ago & am toying with the idea of turning them into talking books. I've used audacity for a couple of years and realise there is a file size limitation. I would estimate one book would take around 2 hours total record time, I would also be adding a music track & the occassional sound effect. I intend to record in separate chapters to limit the size, then dowload as MP3 files.
Does anyone know how to link the chapters together on a CD so they would auto play in sequence as a music CD does.
Stearman65

That is totally a function of your Music CD Authoring Program. Most of them allow you to arrange your music selections however you wish and burn them in that order. The good programs allow you to eliminate or change the standard two-second gap between "songs."

However, the limit on a Music CD is 80 minutes and has nothing to do with file size. It is desirable to approach a Music CD Authoring with the highest quality stereo audio files you can get. 44100, 16-bit, Stereo sound files will make Music CDs with no change in quality. Any format higher or better than that will be downgraded slightly for the CD.

Any compressed format will be burned to a Music CD along with the degradation and compression damage and you can't stop it.

Some Music CD Authoring Programs have trouble with Mono sound files.

I use Easy, Nero, and Veritas on my PCs. All work well. I understand the latest Windows Media Players will author a CD.

Koz

One more Music CD Mystery. Music CDs do not carry album or song titles. The only reason to type the titles in is to print them on a paper jacket for CD case or, if you have a talented enough ink jet printer and printable CDs, on the outside of the CD itself.

We do not like paper sticky labels. They get stuck inside laptop computers.

Go ahead. Ask me how I know that.

Koz

Uh, there's more to it than "Music CDs do not carry album or song titles". Part of it is your player, too. I bought a new truck a couple of years ago and the player there had the "CD Text" capability - Disc title or track title.
I upgraded my burning software (Nero) and tada, there was the capability to add all that information. However, you have a good point, it is kind of a waste of time to type all that crap in there. I gave up after three CDs.

Still haven't tried teh "Lightscribe" featur on Music CDs - if it's possible.

<<<I bought a new truck a couple of years ago and the player there had the "CD Text" capability - Disc title or track title.>>>

I wondered about that. Nobody here could come up with any way at all to do this, so it's not widely supported.

We assume you don't get 80 minutes of music any more which means it 's not a Red Book Compact Disk. I wonder if there are any other incompatibilities. Typically you get that "All computers and most players" thing. Older players need not apply.

CD technology was ahead of its time. Many corners were cut to get that shiny music disk out the door.

Koz