Using Sony Sound Forge 7.0

[ffemt317]

I got a full concert audio file from woodsongs old time music hour website. The file was originaly in wma format. Well using sound forge I converted it to mp3 and burned it to cd to listen to in my car. The only problem is it is considered one track and you have to fast foward through the concert if you want to listen to a particular song. My question is... using sound forge, how do you insert breaks or tracks into a file?

[Bodyslide]

You can highlight each song in the one track and cut and paste each song into a blank track, then save each as an mp3. This is how I have done it in the past. There might be another quicker way. But I only know this one.

[ffemt317]

I'll try that and let you know something. THanks

[greengate69]

I am assuming you have burned the mp3 to cd as an mp3 cd right? If so there is a useful freeware utility called mp3directcut which you can get in the tools section

This will allow you to insert the breaks and save out all the individual tracks in one operation.

[Bodyslide]

I will also try the link you gave green. Thanks

[Bandarlog]

The cutting and pasting is an easy way of making several individual tracks. Just select the part of the wave file that contains one song, copy and paste it to a new file.

I used to do this to product CDs from live concerts in churches. Since different groups would have different volumes, etc., I could normalize them separately to equalize volume.

But this method did not allow me to put break within songs. I seem to remember that there is a way to put breaks within a particular track, but I can't remember. Have you searched the Soundforge help file? Soundforge 7.0 even does CD authoring, doesn't it?

Bandarlog

[freestyler]

This can also be done using Exact Audio Copy, free program.

www.exactaudiocopy.de