On the other hand, MP3 is good in the sense that I can fit many albums on a single CD, but it is horrible for gapless music such as live music. For a while I thought that Foobar has a trick to fit more than 80 minutes on a CD, but I was wrong. So compacting several CD's into one would not work. CDA is good and the tracks play continuously gapless, but each CD can only be 80 minutes. My car stereo only plays MP3 and regular CDA files. I don't know how many CD's I have burned to test everything that I could think of and all the suggestions that I have received. After trying everything that I could for two days, I came to the conclusion that even though the task seems relatively easy, the feature that I am looking at is not possible. So this option takes away this flexibility.Īny other suggestions and solutions are greatly appreciated. So, sometimes I want to listen to all the songs, other times, I want to skip the ones that are not my favorite and more on. As your other options of just keeping the long WAV file, that is not such a good alternative because Most of my CD is from a live show, and I like some songs more than others. I will try the OGG tomorrow, and will see if that works. I can't believe that such a simple thing (at least to an end user) is so complex and does not have a good solution. Most likely this is because of the silence in the MP3 files. This did a much better option, and the tracks are almost seamless, except a click as the music goes from one track to the next. Since this afternoon, I have also used foobar 2000 to write a gapless CD. Also, I still have not played with MP3DirectCut, but I tend to agree with you that this option will not work either. I did use Blade encoder and that did not work. I would appreciate all the detail help you can give me. Options 1 and 2 seem more logical if they work. The problem with this is that the Audio level is approximate and I am not sure if cutting the information is only cutting the silence and not the actual data. Also, if I do this, is there anyway that I can tell my car stereo (by using CUE files, etc) where each track is so that I can skip or go back to different tracks?ģ- Use MP3DirectCut to cut the silence (0.5 seconds) from the end and beginning of the tracks. The problem here is that the WAV file is huge, so it has to be converted into MP3 (because of my initial intent explained earlier). Would this work and would I be able to use it with Audacity?Ģ- Create one long WAV file with all the tracks joined into a single file. Two things that I have found are as follows:ġ- Instead of using LAME decoder use Blade codec. Once the files are created properly, I plan to burn them a CD using Nero 8 Express Essential (Disc at once) or any other suggested burner.Īfter doing lots of research online, I have not come up with any solution, and I was hoping someone here would be able to help. However, upon recreating the MP3 (from the cleaned and cut version), once again I get the 0.5 seconds (or so) in the file, and again the jump from one track to the next is not seamless. I used Audacity, and I cleaned the file, by removing the extra 0.5 seconds of silence from the MP3 file.

However, when I create my files using MP3, there is a small gap (about 0.5 seconds) between the tracks, and I do not get the seamless jump from one track to the next. So, the player switches seamlessly from one track to the next (for example Pink Floyd Dark side of the Moon).

Now, the problem that I have is that on the original CD, some of the songs are continuous without any gaps. Some of them were actually purchased from online as MP3 and others were ripped from the actual CD album. As a result, I have all my tracks in MP3 format. I am trying to put the content of several music CD's into one so that I would only carry one CD with me to the car and listen to all my songs (the quality of the MP3 is good enough for the car stereo).

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