Burning a long mix onto CD's but be able to skip tracks?

[SyncroScales]

Hi.

If I were to make a mix of songs and actually mix them like a DJ would (matching the beats per minute at the beginning and ends of the songs and/or other techniques) and make a mix that is 30 minutes to 80 minutes: How can I burn a CD so I can set up track numbers to skip through them (say track 1-15) and have no pauses or blank sound between each track (so it is a continuous mix)?

1. What I have to do at this time is make a mix and the solution seems to be that I:
2. Go into my music editing program(s) and cut the tracks when they blend/mix and I want to have a separate tracks/songs.
3. Then I export each track/song instead of the full 30-80 minute mix. At the point I end up with tracks/songs 1-15.
4. Then I open up a burning program and arrange each song in order. I select the various options and figure out what is best (track-at-once, disc-at-once, etc).
5. I should have a disc that is a mix and be able to skip through it to find individual songs.

A problem is that with the burning options of track-at-once, disc-at-once, etc is there can be a 2 second pause of silence between each song, or they play properly yet kind of overlap a little bit. The overlapping is slight maybe .5 seconds-1 second. It seems to also depend on which CD player is reading the discs.

Is there another method? Is commercial or industrial equipment any different? Are those pieces of equipment and the software more automated so the manual processes I do are done by the equipment and software?

If anyone works with music artists, DJ's, studios and labels, do the music artists, DJ's, studios and labels have the master mix file and separated mix into tracks/songs/files for their masters and getting the final products available?

Thanks.

[Cornucopia]

DAO with cue sheet, with NO pregap subsequent to the first will work with all compliant players. The cue sheet must have the track markers exactly on CD frame boundaries (1/75 sec).

If this doesn't work, you are not doing something right.

Scott

[newpball]

Is there another method? Is commercial or industrial equipment any different? Are those pieces of equipment and the software more automated so the manual processes I do are done by the equipment and software?

I give you a hint: there are better ways to play music than through those optical circular discs. Computers can do anything you dream of and more.

[Cornucopia]

I'll give you more than a hint, newpball: you are NOT being helpful.
The OP asked for how to facilitate burning such that his CDs would work seamlessly. I gave him a helpful answer, you just said "don't do it" and invalidated his method of working.
AGAIN!

If you cannot say anything helpful, at least refrain from trolling.

@SynchroScales, what apps are you currently using? Depending on the app, you might need to premix all the cuts into one single long cut.

Scott

[newpball]

I know, professional DJ's put CDs in and out and wait for it to be ready all the time.
That's the way they work. Right?

[hech54]

I'll give you more than a hint, newpball: you are NOT being helpful.

Not entirely helpful but truthful. What the OP wants to do cannot be done reliably and consistently.

[Cornucopia]

I know, professional DJ's put CDs in and out and wait for it to be ready all the time.
That's the way they work. Right?

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here...

@hech54, yes it can. I have mastered HUNDREDS of these types of CD's professionally, so I know what I'm talking about.

In fact, I'll put my money where my mouth is:

@SynchroScales, PM me and I'll give you a link to my DropBox account, where you can upload a disc's worth of songs, give me the playlist info, and I'll create a discimage for you to DL & burn (with ImgBurn). If it doesn't work on all standard, compliant CD players, you let us all know here and I'll officially apologize to everyone!
If, however, it works, please relay that info, too. Then, I'll give you the step-by-step to (hopefully) do it yourself.

Scott

<edit>Just had another thought about this: you aren't expecting to be able to have gapless SKIPPED tracks, are you? (aka Play trk1, play trk4 with no gap during the skip from 1-to-4). That's not normally possible with AudioCD format (exceptions with some pro players with pre-loaded playlists). If that's what you're talking about, I'll "concede" now. </edit>

[hech54]

<edit>Just had another thought about this: you aren't expecting to be able to have gapless SKIPPED tracks, are you? (aka Play trk1, play trk4 with no gap during the skip from 1-to-4). That's not normally possible with AudioCD format (exceptions with some pro players with pre-loaded playlists). If that's what you're talking about, I'll "concede" now. </edit>

OOPS....that is exactly what was in MY mind by reading the OP.