Re: [ARSCLIST] CD-DA track breaks

["Richard L. Hess" <ArcLists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Andy,

If you're doing this as a commercial release, I would drop track marks
every five minutes or so, but do it logically like at the beginning of a
question or other logical break points. On most CD players, the forward
scan is very slow and having to forward scan through 54 minutes of stuff is
a real headache.

I do this all the time. Sometimes the track marks are arbitrary.

I've also got a little thing going where I have figured out how to force
Samplitude to put track marks every "n" minutes, but I much prefer if the
time is available to the project to drop them in logical places.

It's too bad Nero forces the 2-second break. Samplitude doesn't. I don't
know what other programs do. I think it's optional with ExactAudioCopy.DE

Cheers,

Richard

At 03:28 PM 12/8/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> 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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