I’m recording a bunch of CD’s into MP3 format and have a question about joining tracks, but still making them searchable.
For example, I pulled the tracks off of Roger Waters’ “Amused to Death”. The CD is best listened to back to front, since the tracks blend into one another. I’d like to join them all into one file so that the album plays correctly, but still have the ability to select individual songs.
Anyone know of a program that will do this for me?
make one rip as a single file and another as individuals.
thats gonna be your best bet.
You can’t have it both ways: The MP3s have to be either separate files or one long one.
But this really has more to do with your MP3 player than the MP3 files themselves.
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[li]If you have one long MP3 file, find a player that lets you divide the file into “chapters” or seek to certain times. Perhaps something made for audiobook playback can do this. I don’t know of any offhand, sorry.[/li][li]If you have multiple MP3 files, leave them as is and find a player that can smoothly transition from one file to the next.[/li]
For software players, look for something that can remove silence and crossfade between tracks – Winamp can do this with a plugin. Let me know if you need more info.
For hardware MP3 players, look for a feature called “gapless playback”. Relatively few players support this. The iPods do not. The ancient Rio Karma did, but it’s hard to find now and gapless playback was about the only good thing about it.
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I figured I was screwed. Ah well, I’ll just put together a disk of joined stuff then.
Thanks for the help you two.