Audacity recording programme.

[mpjbiker]

Hi all, I have loads of great stuff on vinyl which I still play. I'm trying to put it on to my mp3 player, for hols and stuff. I can record it onto the pc with audacity, but as I generally have the mp3 player in shuffle (random) mode, I'd like the albums in individual tracks (like a cd), so when the mp3 hits on it, it plays a track rather than the whole album. I can't see a way to do this, without recording and naming every individual track, which will take ages. Is there a way? Is there any way of doing it once the album is on the pc? I've tried the "get album info" in media player and manually entering the tracks, but as it is one file, you end up with one box, rather than the unlimited boxex to enter track titles.
Any ideas?
Cheers, Martin.

 

[EggChaser]

You can use Audacity to locate the gaps between the tracks and then cut and paste the songs into a new audacity window to split them up, takes a small amount of practice as it is a manual process (and I'd recommend zooming in the audacity track window in order to locate the gaps), but it does at least mean you can record the whole album once, then save it and then piss about cutting and pasting to isolate the songs.

I am not sure if there is any automated software that features a gap detect that will do it for you.

 

[mpjbiker]

Thanks for that-I'll give it a go when I've got some time!

 

[Hubs]

I had a programme from 2002 called CD Spin Doctor (OSX) which could auto detect gaps and allow you to split the LP tracks. Have a look at www.roxio.com/enu/products/spindoctor/overview.html for a more recent version

 

[Mezza]

You can use Audacity to locate the gaps between the tracks and then cut and paste the songs into a new audacity window to split them up, takes a small amount of practice as it is a manual process (and I'd recommend zooming in the audacity track window in order to locate the gaps), but it does at least mean you can record the whole album once, then save it and then piss about cutting and pasting to isolate the songs.

I am not sure if there is any automated software that features a gap detect that will do it for you.

I recorded most of mine using this software a year or so ago and I did it as described above by Eggchaser. It is a real PITA though splitting the tracks and renaming them.
I ended up recording all the old LPs I wanted, but only actually splitting about half of them before I got fed up !
....I keep meaning to go back and finish off, but will prob never get round to it.

Rich