Digital Bits Technology Column QnA

Question:

I’m 75 and not very computer “clever!” Downloaded audacity from audio cassttes via microphone socket, exported to Windows Media player etc but does not have any tracks. Now got a CD of 78 minutes but only one track,can’t fast forward or anything apart from play. What have I done wrong? I’m on Windows Vista.

Suppose I can insert tracks AFTER it is downloaded on the WAV file

Answer:

No. Instead, think of each WAV file as an individual track. So if you want to put multiple tracks on one CD, you’ll then need to create multiple WAV files. Then burn all those WAV files to CD, and you’ll then have a CD with multiple tracks.

Sounds like you’re almost there - you’ve got one big track to listen to, instead of several individual tracks. The difference you need to make is during your recording.

Treat each song individually:

1) Press play on your playback device, and start recording on your computer using Audacity.
2) When the song/track is completed, stop the Audacity recording.
3) Save that file on your PC.
4) Do steps 1-3 for each of the songs you want to record.
5) You’ll be left with a bunch of individual files. These are your individual tracks.
6) Use Windows Media Player (or any other music CD burning software) to save these tracks to CD.

The final result should be a CD with multiple tracks, instead of one big track.

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