Some of my dance music cd's have seperate tracks but some place right through without and gaps/breaks between each one. What I would like to know his how will I make those several tracks into one big track because dance music sounds rubbish with gaps in, so if anyone could help please do, thanks.
how to make a several tracks into one whole track
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how to make a several tracks into one whole track
Any music editing program.
Audacity will do the job.
Audacity will do the job.
ok cheers
Just installed the software and how can I open all the songs in one window because it is opening loads all I need to do is open them and join them but I dont want to copy and paste all the time, just select them to make them a whole track, how do I do this in audacity
Drag and drop files from a folder into Audacity.
and then how do I make it one big track by copying the track onto another track or is there an easier way?
I thought you were smart? Click everything til it works. 
Buy mixer and two cd-players and you can start mixing those songs together. :P
I recommend DJM-600 mixer and CDJ-1000mk3 cd-players.
I recommend DJM-600 mixer and CDJ-1000mk3 cd-players.
I don't want to mix, I wanted to just make it have no breaks at the end of the songs. I found Media Join what joins the songs together for you.
Can you not just make the songs fade into eachother using WMP?
Love my CDJ 1000 mk1's
OK, anyway, back OT.
Easy way is if they're MP3'd, decompress them to .wav using something like Winamp's Disk Writer plugin. Then in your sound editor (I'd recommend Wavelab for putting split mixes back together), load up track 1, and go to the very end of it. Then simply insert the track 2 .wav at the end, and continue.
If they're still on CDs, use Audiograbber. Go to the very last track, right-click and go to Track Properties. Where it says "Sectors", copy the value in "Last" and close that window.
Then right click the tracks, choose ""Select None", then recheck the tickbox for Track 1. Right click Track 1, go to Track Properties, and replace the value in "Sector" > "Last" with the value you copied from the final track.
OK it, then rip. Simple.
I thought modern media players supported gapless playback anyway? So if the music has no silence at the beginning/end of each track, you don't need to do anything to the files.
Some do. Sorta.
Seemless is never seemless. Winamp got close with its try, but there's still a tiny gap.
Annoying on a rip of a dance CD as the track usually starts on a bass-swap, right where you don't want a few MS of silence.
In other words, beat-mixing.
Aren't there music players than can make the songs overlap, kinda like fade out and fade in at the same time?
Yes, for example winamp with correct plugins. And of course Pioneer DJS (Used by night clubs around the world. But rather pointless without a good touch-screen)...
A bass-swap is one of the practices in beatmixing, yes. But this thread is about sorting out gaps in a ripped CDs playback, or putting them all into one track.
When not ripped as one whole track like in the method I posted above, your mp3 player, even if it claims it does seemless playback, will pause for a few ms, which as I said before, you don't want right after a bass-swap as it interferes with the "flow".
Imagine pressing Play/Pause twice quickly on your CDJ right after you've done a bass-swap, it'll sound funny. Your player is doing pretty much exactly the same as it decompresses the first part of the mp3.
I've seen a few Winamp pluggies in my time that have tried to decompress the first bit of the next tune, but they've all been really, really rubbish.
And Pioneer DJS is far better when you use a traditional mixer as an output and a DJ hardware controller to control the software
Another spliff, then bed.
Night!
how to make a several tracks into one whole track
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