making breaks during recording

[roy windmill]

Hi. I have Windows XP. I would like to make a C.D of some of my favourites tracks. Because these will com from various scources, e.g Tapes. L Ps and C.Ds. It would mean stopping the recording to change the scource, perhaps leaving it intil the next day. Is this possible? Thanks. R. Windmill

[kozikowski]

Audacity 1.3 has a feature called Append Recording Shift-R. That should let you pick up right where you left off.

However. the process is still prone to failure and crashes, so Save the Project under a new name each time to form a backup, and I would Export as WAV as well.

Say you're 60 minutes into a show and the computer crashes. There's a terrifically good chance that everything up to that point is trash -- unless you have a backup.

If you are in fact making a Music CD, don't bother to go over 78 minutes. That's the maximum amount of music per disk. Also remember that most Music CD authoring and burning programs will automatically put a two-second gap between each music file. Some programs allow you to change that number and, of course, if the whole disk is one file, then you will get one "song."

Koz

[roy windmill]

Thanks Koz. I'll give it a try. Roy