Audacity Forum

Please help id like to make a cd with each track separated in the mix without silence,but a cdplayer still recognise all separate tracks.Like i have an hour long mix and i like to make that mix for 10 separate track.Thanks

All you need to do is to place a label at each track break - use the Ctrl-B shortcut - and don't forget to place a label right at the beginning for the first track.

Then use Audacity's Export Multiple command (available from the File drop-down) to export a multiple set of WAVs, MP3s or whatever.

The Audacity Wiki, Documentation and Turorials have much useful information on how to do this - a recommended read - http://audacityteam.org/help/

WC

I am trying to do more or less the same thing, but I notice that at each spot where I insert a label that in the final mix there is a small sound gap when the it is played back from a burned CD-R, or a slight jump when played straight from the wave files. (The project plays fine from the Audacity program.) Is there some kind of setting I am missing for the labels? Thanx in advance!

It's not Audacity, it's likely to be down to your CD burner trying to be "helpful" by inseting a little track break for you. If you read the documentation/Help for your particular CD burner you should finfd a setting whereby you can turn this facility off.

Personally I prefer to create my own track breaks at the end of songs - there are some when a little more contemplative silence is good - and there are instances, as in your case for example, where no gap at all is required.

WC

I appreciate the fast response! Well, I don't think in this case it's the burner because it's never done that before on other projects. Also there seems to be a problem just when playing the wave files right from my hard drive as well, but in this case it is more of a jump in the sound.

Usually I just do tight edits between cuts but for this project I need wsome overlapping.

I just double checked and it plays a brief pause or gap when playing the files from my hard drive on Windows Media Player or Realplayer. No other sound files or CDs do this.

Hmmm.... I'm stumped then, sorry

WC

The only thing I can figure is that something happens to the ends of each sound file when exporting it out of Audacity as a multiple wav file. Like it drops a split second or ads a gap or something. But this would mean that anytime someone added a label at a point where there was audible sound before and after, like 2 songs crossfading for example, then it wouldn't play through smoothly unless you were playing it directly from Audacity. I haven't tried exporting it as an mp3 file yet to see if it also does it then. Have you had this problem? Can you try dropping a label in the middle of something and then see how it plays as a wav file?

I also tried exporting it as multiple mp3 files and it did the same thing when playing it back from my hard drive, a slight glitch at the sound break.

For what it's worth, I just downloaded Audacity version 1.3.4.-beta and tried it and got the same results.