How to change tracks without losing sound?

[Moonlight_Seeker]

This might be a bit of a n00b question but I don't feel like wasting a lot of time on that.
So I have these two songs, one finishes with a long ambient sound and the other starts with a long ambient sound and the two of them goes well together so I would like to make the track number change without losing a millisecond of sound.

I use Cubase and I have no idea how to do that!

Thank you kindly.

edit : Ah yes, I was looking at the topic title, and I mean track in the sense of a CD track, you know. The song number.

 

[006]

...just bounce them each how you want them to end/start, when you burn them to a CD make sure it's gapless. I use Toast (mac) and it has an option for 0 seconds between each track up to like 5 or something. Setting it to 0 makes it go right to the next track without even a split second pause or anything in any CD player I've tried it in.

 

[Moonlight_Seeker]

Oh I was looking at a very wrong direction. I'm on PC but I get the idea! Thanks. I use Nero to burn CDs, it must be good?

 

[006]

Yeah same deal. I use Cubase also so I know the method works.

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

In Nero you have to check "No pause between tracks".

 

[Moonlight_Seeker]

Nifty, thanks. :]

 

[Moonlight_Seeker]

So it does not work with Nero Express, the traditional burning program. It worked with Nero Soundtrax after I exported all the songs in one file and then separated the CD tracks in that program. So now on the CD there are no silences between the songs. So then I tried to rip it in many different ways, with wmp and power2go and nero and all and they all put silences!

How do rip with no silence between the CD tracks?! I know there is a little check box that says "no silence" but it does not work. Should I normalize? I think no. Could it be because the files on the CD are waves and I want to rip them as waves?

 

[Trevoire520]

Bump as I'd like to know how to do this too.

 

[AudioGeekZine]

DON'T EVER NORMALIZE WHEN BURNING

sorry for shouting, I just need it to be clear

Rip cds properly with EAC: Exact Audio Copy
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

Wavelab is great for burning audio cd with any sort of 'advanced' functions like fades between tracks, 'hidden tracks' etc.

 

[Moonlight_Seeker]

So I downloaded EAC, installed it, and when I open it it says "access violation".

I hate my life.

I did download the "international version".

 

[006]

Try the regular English version, see if it works for ya. You can obviously read/speak/write in it

Unless you did already and it's not working either

 

[Moonlight_Seeker]

Yeah, no does not work. I also tried the German version. I also downloaded it from the Pirate Bay and its the same problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #@$%?$?$%?%?&$

at 1000A298-> ACCESS_VIOLATION

That's what it says when I try to open the installed program.

 

[soundwarebt]

"EAC will crash on some systems. Therefore I implemented some command line options that will disable some functions that could crash the system. The options are:

nostopcommand
notestunit
nospeedsel
noreadsub

(e.g. EAC -noreadsub -notestunit)

You should have CDs already inserted in ALL your drives when starting EAC. On some systems it will still crash if no CD is present when EAC is running.

Furthermore, you might want to try to disable the flag ‘DMA Transfer’ from system properties, hardware manager for each CD-ROM drive in the system (which will make extractions much more slower though)."

 

[GarethSE]

when you burn the first track, set the Right hand locator perfectly, export
then when you do the second track, type in the position of the left locator to be EXACTLY the same as where the right locator is
then move the right locator to the end of the second track, export
play them one after the other and that should work perfectly.
thats how i did the transitions on my drone ep and that's totally gapless, it plays as one long track

 

[Moonlight_Seeker]

Well from the beginning I felt that the answer to my sorrow was very easy and stupid and right under my nose the whole time, ya know. Turns out it was even more stupid and probably obvious then I predicted, as usual.

So I have the Nero suite 8 or whatever it's called. So I exported all the songs in one file and then imported it in soundtrax and told it where to "cut" tracks.
Then I burnt it on the CD directly. Because it seems in soundtrax when you do "export to audio" or something like that it does not feel the track cuttings. So on the CD it went. As waves of course.
Then I wanted to rip the CD to send it to the musicians. So I wanted to rip it in waves because I have this converter which I think is nice. So my plan was CD to computer to converter. So I verified my wave files after I ripped it. And of course it never worked, always a stupid silence.
So after a couple of tries and burnt CDs I got tired of it all and decided to go to listen to it in a home theater in another room. So I took the burnt CD and the home theater ( who is pretty cheap ) does not play the wave files.
So I converted the wave files ( who came from the CD ) into mp3s... and guess what happened after!

So now my question is : Is there one music player that will play consecutive wave files with no silence? I dare you to find one!

"EAC will crash on some systems. Therefore I implemented some command line options that will disable some functions that could crash the system. The options are:

nostopcommand
notestunit
nospeedsel
noreadsub

(e.g. EAC -noreadsub -notestunit)

You should have CDs already inserted in ALL your drives when starting EAC. On some systems it will still crash if no CD is present when EAC is running.

Furthermore, you might want to try to disable the flag ‘DMA Transfer’ from system properties, hardware manager for each CD-ROM drive in the system (which will make extractions much more slower though)."

Well call me stupid, I know I did, but I have no idea where to enter those command words. :I And I don't remember if I had a cd in the drive when installing/downloading. Will re-try!