Try Audio Cleraning Lab by Magix- I paid about $ 50 for mine at Best Buy. My old version worked at over 4 seconds. Drop in 5 or 6 second silent breaks in your original signal. Magix will automatically make index points when you invoke the proper spell: go to CD along the top bar. The drop down menu offers "Set Track Marker Automatically." Do so. Make your CD through the program, also simple. I haven't yet tried the upgrade, so I'm not certain that 4+ seconds still trigers the indexer. ========================= Steven Smolian 301-694-5134 Smolian Sound Studios --------------------------------------------------- CDs made from old recordings, Five or one or lifetime hoardings, Made at home or concert hall, Text and pics explain it all. at www.soundsaver.com ========================= ----- Original Message ----- From: "andy kolovos" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 1:27 PM Subject: CD track marking > Folks, > > I'm currently switching over from making listening copies of field > recordings on cassette to using CDs. I wrote to the list a few months ago > about suggestions for placing index points/tracks at intervals on the disk, > and have decided to set them every five minutes. The problem I'm having > now is the program I using for sound processing--Cool Edit 2000--makes it > extremely difficult to introduce track marks into a long WAV file for > burning. Essentially you have to lay down a series of cue points, merge > the cues, then save each cue range as an individual file. Needless to say, > when an interview is 120 minutes long, that's a lot of marking and saving. > According to the help-people at Syntrillium, there is no way to script the > process of laying cue points every 5 minutes and then saving the individual > tracks after you mark them, nor is there a way to automate even the process > of saving the merged cue ranges as individual files. Does anyone out there > have a suggestion for another (inexpensive) program I could use just to > ready the audio for CD that isn't such a pain in the neck? Cool Edit 2000 > does pretty much everything else we need around here, and we're not in a > position to make a large financial investment in audio software right now. > If there isn't a program I can use just to ready the audio for CD, then > what experience have others had preping audio for CD as I outlined above > with other programs--Sound Forge, etc.? I'm working on a PC, by the way. > > Thanks for you time-- > > andy > ********************************* > Andy Kolovos > Archivst/Folklorist > Vermont Folklife Center > P.O. Box 442 > Middlebury, VT 05753 > (802) 388-4964 > [log in to unmask] > http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org