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Splitting audio track into separate tracks for a CD


Eric Woodring

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I have an audio file loaded onto a track that I dumped from a cassette. I used effects and such to clean it up and I went through and added a split and index marker to it. How do I get it to save or burn to disk and have separate tracks on the CD? There doesn't seem to be a "Check the box for Use Track Markers as Indicators" feature that the searches seem to indicate it should have. 

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You need to split the track at the end of each song and drag it down to a new track 

Say the cassette has 10 songs. You recorded them to one track. 
add 9 more audio tracks. 
Start splitting and dragging the each song to its own track. 
Personally I would have started by recording each song to its own track to save having to do that. 
That way you can have different processing if necessary for each song. 
Globally you would add the processing to the Master bus. 
 

Actually for this stuff I would have used a Wave editor. Most have CD assembly tools. 
Im pretty sure Audacity has. 

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I have both Sound Forge and Wave Lab. They both have very professional tools for album assembly and burning CD.
 

Wave lab elements I’ve owned since version 4. It goes on sale for around $75. Definitely the most popular with the professionals. 


Sound Forge I have scored free because it was always included with Sony hardware like Mini disk players and turntables. Latest version was included with Vegas Pro. 


But I was curious about my other two that are free. 
Audacity and Gold Wave. Neither of those have album assemblies or CD burning features. 
 

I still use Nero 7 for CD burning. I might have bought it 15 years ago and it still installed to W11. 
 

Wave editors can all use the same plug in folders you use for Sonar. 
But I would recommend using Sonar to split into tracks for each song and add effects if that’s what you’re used to using. 
Then export using Tracks through entire mix. 
That way if you name each track it will be added to the exported files. 
 

 

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