Hi, I’m new.
This weekend I digitized 3 LP’s. Two went well: one with two LP sides in one Audacity track, one with two consecutive audacity tracks for the two lp-sides. The third was Abbey Road, where on side two abt 11 titles feature, but two or three songs are in one LP-track. I did not get the labels right and deleted all from side two.
Today I recorded side two in a new project, and managed to get the right labels with the right songs. But I messed up with starting and interruping recording. I ended with one track of 3 labels, a follow up track for two more, but the track for the last title took a second audiotrack.
I managed to group export wav files, but the track numbers were doubled end even tripled, so I think I cant burn a decent CD (as a back-up for my NAS music).
Therefore my Question: how can I make one audio track from two, and how can I then merge the two projects into one audiotrack. All with keeping the labels in place?
You can’t merge AUP or AUP3 projects but if you use File → Import → Audio you can import multiple tracks into one project. If you leave them lined-up at the starting-point they will mix, but you can click & drag the track title to move one or more tracks in the time-line to combine one after the other when you export.
You’ll have to zoom-in to align them perfectly where they were split and it might be easier to start-over and record one more time…
but two or three songs are in one LP-track.
With CDs this is easier to handle. You can make one-long file and use a [u]Cue Sheet[/u] to put the track markers wherever you want. That works great with live recordings where there is no silence between tracks. Some burning applications may not support cue sheets. I use ImgBurn.
Most computer formats don’t support “tracks” or “chapters” (and/or most player software doesn’t support them). So if you want to select & play tracks separately, and have a separate track/song name, each song has to be a separate file. Then, there can be issues getting “gapless playback”.