How do I make a “mix” or “concert” CD, with tracks but no gaps?
Most CD-R drives are capable of doing this. The trick is to find the right software. The utilities from Golden Hawk (CDRWIN, DAO) will let you specify the gap size for each track (down to zero) and set the location of the track and index marks, and you can put each track in a separate file or have the entire recording in a single file. Other programs, like ECDC, are easier to use but less flexible. Depending on your drive, you may need to use disc-at-once recording. Some drives insist on inserting a two-second gap between tracks when track-at-once recording is used. If you want to break up a long recording into several WAV files (one per track), it’s important to split tracks on precise 2352-byte boundaries. If you don’t, you’ll get tiny periods of silence or noise, lasting less than 1/75th of a second, that may be clearly audible depending on the context. A handy utility called “CDWAV”, available from http://resource.simplenet.com/files/cdwav.zip, is good at splitting large WAV files
