How to insert cue points in large audio files (1 Viewer)

[Mike LS]

How would I go about splitting a large audio file into different tracks? I know how to manually save the file as smaller segments, but I wonder if there's a way to do this automatically in a burning program?

I sometimes transfer long files (lectures, sermons etc) from cassette to CD. When doing this I wind up with a 30 minute wav file (or longer) and I hate putting that large a track on a CD. It's a pain in the butt to get to a certain part easily.

Any suggestions of ways to split this into specific minute length segments?

 

[Vince Maskeeper]

Two options:

1) Use a burning program like Sonic Foundry's CD Archetect in conjunction with Sound Forge. This does exactly as you want: opens a large file, and drops in tracks as markers you can drag around the file- and boom.

2) Do as you suggested (I think) select sections of the wav file, cut them out, save them as new files, drop the series of saved files into a burner app like Nero or EZ CD.

-Vince

 

[Wayne Bundrick]

Nero can split a huge wav file into individual tracks before you burn the CD, but there's nothing automatic about it. You still have to choose where to do the splitting.

 

[MikeAlletto]

I've used Exact Audio Copy's wav editor to automatically create a cue sheet based on the wav file. Then I manually edited parts that needed it.

 

[Mike LS]

Nero can split a huge wav file into individual tracks before you burn the CD

What is the command for this? I use Nero from time to time and if I can just click where I want to split it, that would be fine.

 

[Vince Maskeeper]

Wow, I never knew Nero could do that. I poked around a bit and found it:

Drop the file into a audio cd window.

Right click on it, select properties

Index, Limit, Splits tab at the top.

Can place track splits, and do countdown indexing here.

-Vince