Re: [ARSCLIST] CD-DA track breaks

[Jeffrey Kane <jeffkane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Index marks should do what you want but I'm not sure how well supported they
are by current hardware.

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> Subject: [ARSCLIST] CD-DA track breaks
>
> Folks,
>
> We're about to embark on our first CD-DA release of a radio documentary
> we've produced.  In the past we've always released such things on
> cassette.
>
> The radio program is just under an hour long.  To me this makes it
> necessary to insert some sort of breaks into the program to facilitate
> access to different parts of it, and so that if someone is listening and
> gets interrupted, he or she won't have to start from the beginning when
> she
> returns to it.
>
> When I want to insert track breaks into CD-DA versions of interviews, I
> just break the piece up into 5 minute long tracks, remove the silences
> that
> Nero automatically places between the tracks, and then burn the disc.
>
> In this case (being a commercial release and all) such an approach seems
> somewhat--I don't know--inelegant.  Is there any other way this can be
> done? Is there a way to break up the audio so that the program time will
> not be reset at every break? How the heck do books-on-CD pull this stuff
> off?
>
> Thanks,
>
> andy
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