Page 1 of How to put track increments into a .wav file for burning with Nero

Hi guys,

Title says it all really! I have a large .wav file that I want to place tracks in, without a sound gap between the tracks. It is a DJ set that has come out as one big track, and thus needs to written in this way, so that it comes out on CD as a continuous mix, but also so that I can skip a tune here and there.

I`m sure Nero can do this for me, but I have no idea how. :/


Thanks!

EVH

Right... there may be an easier way to do this now, but the way I always used to do it was to write a cue sheet. This is basically a text file, with the extension .cue, which defines track times and various other parameters for the CD you`re burning. Cue sheets are native to a program called CDRWin (www.goldenhawk.com), but you can use them in Nero as well.

Cue sheets are described in the CDRWin help file, but you can cut and paste this one into notepad (just add more tracks as required, and change the track time increments and filename to suit).

Code:
FILE "example.wav" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
INDEX 01 02:24:08
TRACK 03 AUDIO
INDEX 01 05:16:70
TRACK 04 AUDIO
INDEX 01 08:34:60
TRACK 05 AUDIO
INDEX 01 11:15:55
TRACK 06 AUDIO
INDEX 01 16:04:30

Save it with the extension .cue, and put it in the same directory as your .wav file. Now, just open the .cue file up in Nero (either File -> Burn Image or Recorder -> Burn Image, depending on what Nero version it is), and burn away.

Hope that`s clear enough. :D

Mike

Oustanding work Mr G! Thanks very much for that. :)

I have used CUE sheets a hundred times before, but I`ve always had a program such as Exact Audio Copy output one for me, rather than me having to write one myself. But that worked a charm!


Thanks again,

Eddie V

That is bloody brilliant!
You wouldn`t believe the amount of time I`ve spent spiltting up files (not always successfully) using Audacity.
Thank you very much Mike G :)