Question on Editing

[BizBroker]

I am new at CEP. I tried finding the answer in HELP but to no avail. I have a file with the entire track of a cassette. I have separated each track to its own file in the past.

What I am wondering is can I in the same file with all tracks in it manipulate it so when I save it as a .ra file it will give me individual tracks once it is burned to a CD. Or do I have to cut and paste each song as its own file.

Regards,

Chris Thompson
BizBroker

[audiomaniac]

Well Chris

If you record a large track from an audio cassette I think it's more convenient to keep the single track to remove a constant background noise on the file. This done, you cut the main file in individual tracks; you can apply an eq in case of need on some of them or try a level correction; then you burn your CD.

Regards

[130dB]

when I save it as a .ra file it will give me individual tracks once it is burned to a CD.

If you are burning to CD, burn from the original *.wav files.
*.ra is far from a quality sounding format. Keep the *.ra files for listening to on your pc.

[BizBroker]

Originally posted by audiomaniac
Well Chris

If you record a large track from an audio cassette I think it's more convenient to keep the single track to remove a constant background noise on the file. This done, you cut the main file in individual tracks; you can apply an eq in case of need on some of them or try a level correction; then you burn your CD.

Regards

Audiomanic,

Thank you for your reply. When you say "cut" you mean copy and and paste as a new file? Does CEP allow burning right from the program?

Regards,
Chris Thompson

[BizBroker]

Originally posted by 130dB
If you are burning to CD, burn from the original *.wav files.
*.ra is far from a quality sounding format. Keep the *.ra files for listening to on your pc.

130db,

Thanks for your reply. I have been saving the files as *.pcm. Are you suggesting I save them as a wav file instead?

Regards,
Chris Thompson

[audiomaniac]

Sorry Chris

I didn't give you enough information. So, your large file is loaded in cep. If you want to burn a CD you must cut this large file in as many tracks as on the original album. At this time, you select the first song with the mouse, go to edit menu, select cut (or copy if you don't want to modify the original file) then go to edit menu again and select past to new. In this way you get an individual track for each song. To avoid the clicks at the beginning and the end of the file, select the very first or last milliseconds of your song, go to effects/amplitude/amplify and choose "fade in" or "fade out" and then ok. Now it's time to save your work.
Of course, as 130 dB said, use an uncompressed format like wav if you don't want to loose to much audio material when saving your songs on your hard disk. cep can extract audio from cd or video but doesn't allow cd burning right from the program...
hope this help
bye

[BizBroker]

Audiomanic,

Thank you for your reply. If you can bear my novice questions I can bear your simplicity. As you stated I have been using this method to get the tracks. But I am still confused on the wav files being saved as the "ultimate" file. Will my car CD player play wav files. Or is this my goal to keep wav files as the master copy.

Note: I am not an music person by trade. I just have a lot of songs on cassettes and want to put them on CD as opposed to buying them all over again.

And since you have more knowledge than me I offer to return the favor to you with my skills in sales and marketing. And this goes for anyone who has tried to help me.

Regards,
Chris Thompson

[audiomaniac]

hello Chris

Just a few words about the "final choice". In the majority of the cases the car CD players read only audio CD or mp3 files (a compressed format with low looses). If you want to play your CD at home or in your car you can burn your CD in audio format. If you want to keep a master copy keep the wav files for the future. Perhaps you could burn both audio (.cda) and data (.wav) CDs. It could make the deal... CDs are not so expensive today !

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