How to correctly make a cuesheet with Exact Audio Copy?

[aldaco12]

Sorry for my dumb question, but I'm quite a newbie on this stuff.
First, I've a version of Nero I cannot understand. I set Nero to record DAO placing 'pause=0' and I can hear a little interruption of the sound between the 2 traces, so than recording a live CD is impossible.
Maybe it's a fault of my burner (I'm forced to use the 'Virtual Image Recorder' with Nero and burning the .NRG file that Nero makes later, with Alcohol 120%, because Nero cannot see my burner.
Therefore I'm tryng to make a cuesheet wit EAC, to burn it with Alcohol 120% later (if I add WAV wiles Alcohol 120% works, even if I add MP3 files Alcohol 120% dont', and only Nero does, but at least even in that case I can make a Nero .NRG Image).

The question is this: in the 'Tools___Write CD-R' screen I can do three things:
- Append Files As New Trax (Index 1)
- Append Files As New Trax (Index 0 and 1)
- Append Files As New Index

and I can check the option 'Add 2 seconds gap on append'.

Well, what't the difference between the 3 commands written above?

I cannot understand the difference between 'Append Files As New Trax (Index 1)' and 'Append Files As New Trax (Index 0 and 1)' and I cannot understand the meaning of - Append Files As New Trax (Index 1)
Append Files As New Index.

1) What do I have to do when I compile a CD?

2) And if I add 'mixed' traces (no pause between trace N and the previous one) what must I do?

Thanks...

[mats.hogberg]

From the CDRDAO site:

Creation of a CD with Live Music
Assume you have a WAVE file live.wav that contains several minutes of live music and you want to divide it in tracks every 5 minutes with further subdivisions by index marks. You will have to create following toc-file live.toc:

CD_DA
TRACK AUDIO
FILE "live.wav" 0 5:0:0
INDEX 3:0:0

TRACK AUDIO
FILE "live.wav" 5:0:0 5:0:0

TRACK AUDIO
FILE "live.wav" 10:0:0 5:0:0
INDEX 2:0:0

...

Then use

cdrdao write live.toc

to create a CD without any pre-gaps between the tracks.

So, you have the whole CD as one wav, then specify the track "breaks" in the toc

/Mats

[aldaco12]

No, I have (e.g.) 10 files, and I know that I can decode to WAV and make a cuesheet to record them.
I would like what do I have to do to join 'live' tracks (pause =0).

[mats.hogberg]

As above - join the wavs, make cue, burn.

See shntool:

Let's say you've got 10 wavs in a dir:

Run shntool in that dir:

shntool cue *.wav

That will create the cue for you
Then join the wavs with

shntool join *.wav

Make sure the wav file mentioned at the top of the cue is the same as the name of the joined wav.

Burn the cue with CDRDAO

/Mats