Audio Spanning

[chacobear]

Is it possible to span discs in audio mode or only in data?

[tsantee]

Toast will span Audio CDs to multiple discs but it won't cut a track. So you need to cut your .mp3 into segments of about 70-plus minutes maximum so that Toast has a ending point for one disc and starting point for the next.

[sknis]

Is it possible to span discs in audio mode or only in data?

 

No need for bolding.

 

A little more information about what you want to do would be helpful. It sounds like you want to take a piece of music randomly and have the program break it in half so some of the music is one one disc and the remainedr is on the other. Is that what you want?

 

Or do you want to set up a playlist and have the program burn as much as it can and the remainder on another disc. What kind of music files?

[chacobear]

Thank you! I am a counselor by profession. I record the sessions on a Sony digital recorder as an mp3 file. But clients sometimes would like a CD,and often the sessions go longer than the 80-minute limit for a single CD burnt in Toast 11.

So I'm looking for a way to be able to accommodate them. Any advice would be much appreciated.

[bimicher]

Thank you! I am a counselor by profession. I record the sessions on a Sony digital recorder as an mp3 file. But clients sometimes would like a CD,and often the sessions go longer than the 80-minute limit for a single CD burnt in Toast 11.

So I'm looking for a way to be able to accommodate them. Any advice would be much appreciated.

 

What program are you using? You posted in the NXT 2 forum but tlak about Toast?

 

A 80 minute mp3 file should be no problem burning to a CD and you would not need to span discs. mp3 files are treated as data files when burning to a CD and thus file size is what matters not time.

[chacobear]

I'm new to all this, and am obviously posting in the wrong place. Thanks for your help anyway, it is much appreciated I'm using Toast Titanium 11.1, and what I'm trying to do is transfer mp3 sound recordings that are longer than 80 minutes to CD, but the Toast program appears to give me no choice of transferring to multiple discs. When I try to transfer, it tells me that there is "not enough free space on the disc", but then gives me no options except to abort.

[theoldarchiver]

You could burn the mp3 as-is to a data CD (ISO 9660 or MP3 CD), that should fit many hours. But it would need a computer or mp3-capable CD player for playback. This is by far the easiest and I would recommend it for its simplicity.

 

You could burn the mp3 as a regular audio CD, playable on any CD player, but with the 80 minute limit. You would need to cut the recording into pieces before burning.Those cuts would preferably not be mid-word or mid-sentence, but between sentences. This means listening back, and actively decide where to cut and then do it with some precision. Perhaps your recording device can be stopped and started at ~78 minute intervals, so to create multiple mp3s from the start.