How do I burn an audio CD with multiple tracks but no gaps between the tracks?
There are two basic ways to burn an audio CD. These are known as “Track at Once” (TAO) and “Disc at Once” (DAO). When a CD is burned in TAO mode, the laser is switched off between each track, and by default this causes a gap (usually 2 seconds) between the tracks. Some CDR drives allow this gap to be adjusted, and some CDR writing software allows you to set the gap if the hardware supports it. In extreme cases it may be possible to set to inter-track gap to 0. Whether this achieves what you want depends on the hardware’s ability to pick up precisely where it left off, and in most cases even with a gap of 0, there will be a tiny but noticable “tick” between the tracks. To get the desired effect of multiple tracks with no gap whatsoever between them, it is usually necessary (and certainly more reliable) to burn the CD in DAO mode. Here, the entire CD is written in one go, without the laser being turned off at any stage. The disadvantage of doing it this way is that you can’t build up you
