spiltting tracks

[copshop272]

Hi I use cool edit transfering LP`s to CD....How Do I for example spilt the wave of an LP into individual tracks....Do I use cool edit or is this option offered on EAC......many thanks....

[Sckott]

You can do both, but are you trying to cut a big ol' piece of wav into chunks?

You can do it two ways:

1. Use Notepad and edit another CD's Cue file to suit where you want track stops/starts (-00:02 time, ect) and use Cool Edit in Time mode and "pad n'paper" your specific track stops as you want them...Write your own cue file....Use EAC to preview the disc until you're happy. Make sure the wav file is named as in the CUE file, and also make sure you don't use specific location of the file. References to FILE: "mywav.wav"

2. Use Cool Edit and highlight the tracks one-at-a-time, File...Save Selection (make sure) and hit Delete (to delete the previous highlighted selection, already saved) once each selection is saved and done. Keep doing this until you've done the whole wav, or until you're happy.

#2 may give you more control, but they're both time consuming. #1 you can do without waiting for each and every track to save.


Oh, if your wav has obvious dead spacing, you can use wav.repair to make automatic cue files and minimum wait time.

Here's the site: www.waverepair.com

And here's a made example:

REM CDRWin Cue Sheet written by Wave Repair
FILE C:\audio\Ventures\knockmeout1.wav WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
INDEX 01 02:10:05
TRACK 03 AUDIO
INDEX 01 04:15:03
TRACK 04 AUDIO
INDEX 01 06:31:72
TRACK 05 AUDIO
INDEX 01 09:21:08
TRACK 06 AUDIO
INDEX 01 11:31:46
TRACK 07 AUDIO
INDEX 01 13:51:26
TRACK 08 AUDIO
INDEX 01 16:03:10
TRACK 09 AUDIO
INDEX 01 18:22:49
TRACK 10 AUDIO
INDEX 01 21:00:74
TRACK 11 AUDIO
INDEX 01 23:01:13
TRACK 12 AUDIO
INDEX 01 25:41:66

[Grant]

Actually, Sckott, there is an easier way to do this.

1) Turn On snapping (fine) by right clicking on the ruler.

2) Place markers at all the places you want tracks to start, including one at the very beginning and one at the very end of the big wav file using the F8 key.

3) Open up the CUE list from the View menu

4) Highlight all tracks by holding the shift key and clicking on the first and last track, and hit the merge button.

5) Now highlight all the newly created ranges in the cue list again, using the shift key...

6) Click the batch button and set the parameters. at the top, be sure to enter the number 0 in both boxes to set silence. Now, click save to files and set your configurations.

7) Click OK.

In just a couple of minutes, your tracks will automatically be saved to your destination file. Just st back and wait.

8) close the big wav. It's up to you if you want to save it. Just make sure you have plenty of space on your HD before you do.

[Gardo]

If you have Sound Forge, there's an easy process there as well.

1. Put markers at the beginning and end of the big .wav file.

2. Put markers at the beginning of each new song (that is, each place you want another CD track to begin).

3. Change markers to regions (on the menu, "special" then "regions list" then "markers to regions").

4. Extract regions as individual files (on the menu, "tools" then "extract regions").

The automated extraction takes very little time. It's a little more time-consuming to decide where I want the tracks to start, but that's my fault for being picky.

[copshop272]

I think it would almost be easier to to record track by track...

[Grant]

Originally posted by copshop272
I think it would almost be easier to to record track by track...

Actually, it's not. It's a hassle, too! Don't give up! Once you get the hang of my or Gardo's method (for SF), you could do it in your sleep. I do, at 4 AM!

I also spend most of my time deciding exactly where to place the markers.

[Gardo]

Originally posted by Grant


Actually, it's not. It's a hassle, too! Don't give up! Once you get the hang of my or Gardo's method (for SF), you could do it in your sleep. I do, at 4 AM!

I also spend most of my time deciding exactly where to place the markers.

Just wanted to echo Grant's encouragement. It's like any other fiddly process that doesn't vary much: you practice till it's automatic, and then it doesn't seem so onerous or overwhelming.

Here's the record; I record it; I do bing bing bing to magnify the file so I can do my in and out trimming/fades; I do bing bing bing to put the markers in (more like bing---hmm, is that what I want--bing---hmm, that's a little tight--bing--okay, stop fiddling and get on with life--bing); I do bing bing bing to convert markers to regions, check regions, and extract; I go straight to EZ-CD Creator (or whatever) and pull the files off in order and burn the CD and voila.

I find it oddly soothing to do such things when I'm too tired to think. (I'm guessing that you feel the same way, Grant.) Plus I have the comfort of knowing I'll have a fresh-mastered CD to play on the way to work in the morning. Lately I've been obsessing on Gryphon's Red Queen to Gryphon Three, an album I haven't listened to for ages. One of the great things about this forum is the way it's inspired me to master some of these old faves to CD. Great album, by the way.

[Grant]

Yes Gardo, I find it VERY relaxing after a hard day at work.

But, if you plan on cleaning up surface noise, you should leave one or two seconds BEFORE any music starts for each song you split.

[Sckott]

Originally posted by copshop272
I think it would almost be easier to to record track by track...

No, Grant's right. I just write a new cue file to a whole big wav selection, and usually use Wav.repair for the automatically made cue file.

Trying to do things one at a time takes longer, definately.... YYeouch!

[Grant]

My strong advice is to learn how to use the software if you want to get the best out of it.