Splitting one long track into individual tracks

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 2 Oct 2008 3:29 pm

A friend of mine is taking old tapes of a couple of bands I was in in the 70's and 80's and recording them onto CD's for me. Trouble is, he is recording each side of the tape onto the CD as one track. I need to know how to take sections from this single track and record them to another CD as single tracks.

I could do it on my stereo system as I have a CD player AND a CD recorder as part of the system by just cueing up the song I want and recording at that time to the CD recorder, but was wondering if there is an easier way to get it done on the computer.

I don't have actual access too the tapes as they belong to my first ex-wife (I was in these bands with her) and the friend is her boyfriend. Long confusing story.

Bent Romnes · Post by **Bent Romnes** » 2 Oct 2008 4:11 pm

Richard, If I understand you correctly, your friend recorded all the songs onto the CD without any separation so there is in fact just one track and not 10 or whatever according to the number songs?

If so, I would copy the songs from the CD to your computer and then re-work them in a recording program like Adobe Audition 3, in the CD mastering section. There, you can split up the songs, into separate tracks and get your 2 or 3 seconds of silence between each track.

John Roche, if you read this...am I right?

John Roche · Post by **John Roche** » 3 Oct 2008 1:36 am

Bent, yes your correct, but it would be easy if you have Soundforge, take the track into SF , highlight the section you need and copy , make a new track and paste into the new track and save to the format of your choice....plus you can do any correction on the new track with SF ..normalize and so on

Jim Peters · Post by **Jim Peters** » 3 Oct 2008 1:12 pm

Audacity does this very easily and is free. JP

Bent Romnes · Post by **Bent Romnes** » 3 Oct 2008 5:41 pm

Well, Richard, it looks like Audacity wins then. I hope it won't let you down.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 3 Oct 2008 6:49 pm

Good. I already have Audacity but have never played with it. I'll give it a try. Thanks guys.

Gordy Hall · Post by **Gordy Hall** » 6 Oct 2008 9:33 am

Richard,

I just did this with an old recording. In Audacity:

Open cd as data file , transfer to hard drive.

Open audacity and open the data file.

Highlight first song, copy.

click 'New' on pull-down menu

Click 'paste' on edit menu

Trim as needed.

Save as '.wav file'.

Repeat. At the end you can delete the big cd file from your hard drive.

HTH.

gordy

Time-consuming, but it works great.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 6 Oct 2008 1:33 pm

Thanks Gordy. You saved me probably hours of figuring this procedure out. Will probably start tomorrow.