Digital Recording Question - Two or More "songs" into one

Cafe Society
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I searched the general q’s and cafe society for the answer and came up blank.

How does one go about digitally recording two songs (tracks) into one? I’ve had no luck trying it on a desktop (in .mp3 format) Or on my Phillips audio CD burner hooked up to my stereo.

For instance, I want burn the introduction track and song track into one song. Examples:
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[li]Tom Wait’s “Nighthawks at the Diner”[/li][li]Side 1 of “We’re Only in it for the Money”[/li][li]Another Brick in the Wall (Parts 1-2-3)[/li]And other instances where 2 individual songs belong together
[li]Peace Frog & Blue Sunday by the Doors[/li][li]Heartbreaker & Livin’ Lovin’ Maid by Zeppelin[/li][li]Conditional Discharge/Don’t Try to lay no Boogie-Woogie on the King of Rock-n-Roll by John Baldry.[/li][li]Overture / It’s a Boy / etc. by the Who[/li]
Has anyone figured out how to do this?

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I use Roxio’s CD Creator 5. It has a feature that will do just that. When you make an audio CD, you have the option of combining several tracks into one. Also, you can use the Sound Stream function (works with .wav files only) and do a cut & paste and tack each song onto the end of the previous song and make one big song. I did this when I put side 2 of Abbey Road on a disc and didn’t want the gap between the tracks.

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Apple’s iMusic has a cross-fade function.

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Minidisc is the best (and easiest) medium for doing this. It’s as easy as hitting a button, and you can also add, remove and move tracks at will - forever. You now can also cram 240 minutes of recording on one 80 minute disc, and alter the recording level after recording. Trust me, once you go minidsc you never go back.

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I still use SoundEdit 16 for that kind of stuff.

I assume you mean you want Song 1 to fade right into Song 2, with the fading notes of Song 1 still audible as Song 2 comes in?

You probably don’t have SoundEdit 16 (they don’t make it any more) but in any comparable sound editing program the process oughta be roughly similar even if the widgets don’t look the same:

Create 4 track document. Copy and paste left and right channel of Song 1 into tracks 1 and 2. Copy and paste left and right channel of Song 2 into tracks 3 and 4, but with an insertion point just barely overlapping the end of Song 1. Fade out tracks 1 and 2. Fade in tracks 3 and 4. Merge to stereo, crossfading so that the merged track that was tracks 1 and 3 contains only track 1 until you get to the overlap; then crossfades through the overlap so that at the end of the overlap contains only track 3. Repeat general idea for tracks 2 and 4. Save.