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Andy, I'm not sure what you mean by inexpensive and I'm not sure of the cost of the other mentioned programs, but I would suggest Wavelab. You can create a montage template with 5 minute track markers and import any file into the montage. This makes the process fairly thoughtless and extremely quick. Good luck and take care. Chris Chris Lacinak Director of Production & Operations VidiPax, Inc. 450 West 31 St. 4th Floor New York, New York [log in to unmask] 212-563-1999 xt. 130 -----Original Message----- From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of andy kolovos Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 1:27 PM To: [log in to unmask] 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