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woodrz - Jun 30, 2006 - 10:29 am

Hi,
Thank you for taking the time to look at my problem. I'm wanting to burn a dj mix onto cd with cue points in the disc. At teh moment i am only able to burn the music as 1 track that is 60 mins long. I'm wanting to put makers in the file so as to be able to skip tracks if needed. On a pc i'm able to burn a cue file which holds all the track information and points the burning program towards the music file. I have search the web for a program but am unable to find anything. It must be able to be done as it's such a simple task on a pc. I'm running 10.4.6
Thanks again

Chris

Incubated Funk - Jul 12, 2006 - 12:02 pm

HI Chris,

I burn my DJ mixes to CD with cue points using a free mac app called Cue-Splitter:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19389

Above is the link where you can download it for free. With this app you just select your cue file, select your audio file and then select your destination for the files to be split to. Then using Roxio Toast Titanium i burn my newly split files to cd with a zero gap. The resulting cd is an 80 min continuous mix with track indexing and no skips.

Here is the link to Toast Titanum:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11427

Toast isnt a free program, but you can get the same results in burning with i-tunes. One important thing to remember though, make sure in i-tunes-> preferences-> advanced -> burning, you set the gap between burning songs to 0 seconds, the default is 2 seconds and it will put a gap between each song.

Let me know if you need anything further with this one

Best Regards
Tom

woodrz - Jul 12, 2006 - 8:47 pm

Hi Tom,

thanks for the advice, it works great. One thing am i able to change the gap when burning an mp3 disc? I can't seem to find the settings in Toast.

Thanks

Chris

Incubated Funk - Jul 13, 2006 - 3:26 am

Hi chris,

Yeah in the latest version of Toast its easy, you just drop drag your audio into the main window and to the left of the track title is a column called 'pause'. Highlight all of your tracks (apple+a) and click the drop down pause menu.

On there just click 'set to 0' et voila, your disc will burn with no gaps.

If there is anything else just drop me a line

Best regards
Tom

woodrz - Jul 14, 2006 - 10:15 am

hi Tom,

Excuse my hopelessness, but i can only see a pause column on the Audio cd section of toast not MP3 disc section, i burned a MP3 disc but it put the gaps between the tracks. So i'm still no closer to being able to burn a mix cd with track numbers on MP3.

Cheers
Chris

Incubated Funk - Jul 17, 2006 - 5:37 am

Hi Chris,

sorry about my delayed response.

I must apologise, i mis-read the part where you said 'mp3 disc'. You are quite right, there is no pause column when burning data, just audio.

Im not entirely sure it would be possible with a data disc.

Regards
Tom