Audio-CD chaptering?

[Truman]

I have recorded a concert and want to burn it as audio-CD. It is only one track, so I have written a cuesheet and tried to set entrypoints by editing the cuesheet.
FILE "D:\concert.WAV" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
INDEX 00 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:02:00
.
.
.
INDEX 13 44:22:00
INDEX 14 46:29:00
INDEX 15 54:04:00
Then I have burnt the CD with CDRWin 4.0.
Unfortunately the standalone CD player did not recognize the "entrypoints".
Do I need a xml authoring tool or something like that? Did anyone burn an audio-CD successfully without splitting one large live track into several small tracks? Any help will be appreciated.

[KingJohn]

Not all CD players support these functions. Easier to load the 1 long track and use Nero to split it where you want, with zero gap between tracks

[Truman]

Thank you KingJohn. Well, splitting the one long track is not too much hassle. And my (10 years old) CD player "plays" a gap anyway, no matter whether I select a zero or a 2 sec gap. So a silent gap is not a solution for me. But if I use the INDEX 00 command instead of PREGAP, it works quite well.
I just asked because I was afraid, that there is anything wrong with the cuesheet. What do you think? btw, I burnt it in DAO mode and unchecked "raw mode". Yes, probably the player is the problem...

[KingJohn]

Yes it works fine on my Technics CD Player, I suggested Nero, as you can feed one large file, and let it split them exactly where you want them, rather than spend time editing.

[vitualis]

Truman,

You have made subindicies and this won't work on CD players if you want continuous tracks. What you need to do is to edit the CUE file to make multiple tracks... e.g.,

FILE "D:\concert.WAV" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
INDEX 00 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:02:00
.
.
.
TRACK 13 AUDIO
INDEX 00 44:22:00
INDEX 01 44:24:00

TRACK 14 AUDIO
INDEX 00 46:29:00
INDEX 01 46:31:00

TRACK 15 AUDIO
INDEX 00 54:04:00
INDEX 01 54:30:00

Do you understand how that works...?

You will have to make a NEW TRACK for it to be a new track on the audio CD. Only two subindices matter for audio CDs (I think).

INDEX 00 = where the track actually starts. For example after track 13 finishes playing and starts playing track 14, it will be at 46:29:00 on the disc.

INDEX 01 = where the track starts playing if you seek to that track. For example, if I skip to track 14, it will actually start playing at 46:31:00.

This is why you may see the -2 seconds countdown on some audio CDs.

BTW, it need not necessarily be 2 seconds long. You don't need the INDEX 01 (I think). Then, when you seek to the track, it will actually start at the beginning of the track. Also, you can make it longer. For example, in track 15, say that the track actually begins at 54:04:00 but the first half minute is just some dialog. You would want that dialog if you were playing the CD in "continuous" mode. However, if you seek to the track, you may just want the music to start right away (at 54:30:00).

BTW, you could just do KingJohn's suggestion and use Nero. It is actually pretty damn good. If you want to persist with CUESheet editing, you can download software from Tucows that will edit the CUESheet in a GUI way.

Regards.

[Truman]

Great, it works perectly, even on my player.
Actually Audio-CD (red book) support up to 99 indices. Index 00 is a pregap (silent or not), Index 01 is the start of the track (i.e. the 1st index) and the subindices 2-99 are entrypoints.
But I can not proof it, you know.
Thanks again.