CD Recording

I have been recording CD's to my hard drive using Windows Media Player 8.

The DG HvK recording of the Mahler 9th was an impossibility, however.

Every tempo change within a movement has a seperate track. And while I checkmarked all to be recorded, on playback, there was an audible 'break' where one track ended and the other began. I have noticed other CD's made this way also.

How to solve this problem?

You need Cool Edit Pro or similar software. For each movement you could plop all the tracks into separate WAV files, Open the 1st track, and then successively Open-Append the subsequent files in order. That would give you a single track for a given movement.

That'll do it. Or, if you want to retain all those tracks as pseudo-index points, the 'breaks' are easily removed in Nero or ECDC before burning a CDR. Just don't have more than 99 tracks.

I don't use ECDC for anything except burning and WAV conversions. Don't know how precise its editing features would be. But with Cool Edit you can stitch together the tracks of continuous music seamlessly.

Yes. But... the 'breaks complained about are inserted pauses? No editing is required to 'uninsert' those.

Get a software like CDex or EAC ... and while you at it, consider using a different newsreader or learn how to use your current one better.

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A couple of years ago I bought a live opera recording from a seller on eBay. It turned out he had just taken a Myto release and burned a copy. But he had ripped all the tracks separately and failed to set those pauses to zero-length. Since it was _Salome_, you can bet it was unpleasant.

Fortunately, he gracefully offered me a refund, which I took as credit against some other items he had.

I guess you can't please everybody, uh.

As long as the software you're using to record the CD onto the hard drive allows you to merge tracks before recording the CD image, this problem can be solved quite easily. Adaptec, Roxio, Feurio, etc. all allow you to do this. This method will, however, keep any pauses that may be present in the source CD at the beginning and/or end of each track, but you won't hear a break between tracks.

It just now occurred to me to ask why.

Addawav is a small and simple PC program that I've used for several years to concatenate .wav files quickly and painlessly