Tools to merge CD tracks

[Arlin]

Many of the accompanyment CDs span the songs accross multiple tracks.
This makes playback much more difficult come performance time... the operator needs to push play AND stop for each song cue. If each song only occupied one track, the operator would only need to push play and not worry about when to stop the track if the cd player is set to just play one track at a time sequentially.

I have been using Audacity to merge the song tracks together so each song is one full track, but is there anything better to do this simple task? It just takes a while and is a bit tedious to do in Audacity.

[[Director] drew ryan]

Sony's Sound Forge will allow you to select a range of tracks to input and you can either have them seperated in to multiple tracs, or merged into one track Plus you get all the cool editing features of the program as well.

[fstroupe]

Yeah, I do the Audacity thing too, kind of a pain. I have yet to come up with a better system, but there has to be one. Fortunately I don't have to do it very often. The first time in quite a while was a couple of weeks ago.

[benwilhelm]

iTunes will rip multiple tracks to one file, also Adobe Audition will too, so there's a free and a pay option for ya!

Ben