Adobe Audition cc 2017 [How to burn a CD with mixed songs spliced together with no space between the songs?]

[stephanies43104885]

Re: Adobe Audtion CC 2017 vs 2015. My problem is on the older version 2015 I could burn a CD with the mixed songs spliced together and there wouldn't be any space between the songs. Now on the newer version you have to create an audio cd and it breaks all the songs individually and when you burn cd it isn't the original spliced song but individual songs and all have a space between songs like itunes. Any advice? Thank you

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[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

If this is what you do regularly, then it's probably best to change the default setting.

Go to Edit>Preferences>Multi-track and Metadata and change the default CD track pause to zero.

[stephanies43104885]

The first picture is of my spliced songs mixed together for cheer. The 2nd picture is all the songs that the new update is making me individualize. In the 2105 version it allowed me to burn the spliced song togwther. I went and changed my settings and yes there is no space now but it's not spliced overlapping eachother for a smooth transfer. Please advise

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[emmrecs]

stephanies43104885  wrote

The first picture is of my spliced songs mixed together for cheer. The 2nd picture is all the songs that the new update is making me individualize. In the 2105 version it allowed me to burn the spliced song togwther. I went and changed my settings and yes there is no space now but it's not spliced overlapping eachother for a smooth transfer. Please advise

Not sure about any other reader, but I see no pictures, sorry.

The advice you have been given by SteveG about reducing the gap to zero is the way to do this if you want each track to play immediately after the preceding one has finished.  That produces a cut/splice/join, call it what you will (I've just done this with a CD, admittedly in CS6, but the process is the same) with no gap, assuming you have correctly designated the beginning and end of each track (no silence in the file, either at the beginning or end).  But I note you speak of "overlapping", which suggests, as Bob mentioned, that you want the next track to begin before the previous one has finished, hence a "crossfade".

So, which do you want, a "join" or an "overlap"?  To me, they are NOT synonymous.

And, for you to take apparent offence in your latest post at what has been written as correct advice is inappropriate, to say the least.

Jeff

[stephanies43104885]

Thank you for your quick reply. My terminology must be wrong but I'm guessing then it's a crossfade if it overlaps. I'm not sure the word I'm needing to use. What I'm looking for is a mixed song burned to a CD like the old days of mixing tapes for a spliced songs. Does that make sense?

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[stephanies43104885]

I only took offense because someone had mentioned that I was getting my software confused. I wasn't offended for the advice. I appreciate all advice! Thanks again

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[SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Accepted solution]

stephanies43104885  wrote

I only took offense because someone had mentioned that I was getting my software confused. I wasn't offended for  the advice. I appreciate all advice!  Thanks again

I'm sorry if I offended you - that was not my intention. But if you look at what I said, I said 'may', not 'has'. And since you mentioned something that Audition has never done, that wasn't an unreasonable assumption.

As far as cross-faded songs all mixed into one is concerned, you have to set up the cross-fades yourself in Multi-track mode, and put a marker in the centre of each fade; there is no specific 'point' at which one track will start and the previous one end. Also you need a marker at the start and finish of the file, and you need to turn all the marker points into ranges before they will show as discrete but joined tracks on the CD.

[stephanies43104885]

Ok thank you. I think my answers have been answered. My terminology was incorrect so I apoligize as well. I will try all of what's been suggested. Thanks again

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[ryclark]

Being able to see the pictures might have made it a bit easier for us to see what was happening with your files.

[Bob Howes]

No pictures for me either.

And I agree the problem is that simply splicing is different from "overlapping".  Overlap implies you want one track to fade into another.

Anyway, if you simply want to "splice" your CD so one track follows another without any overlap, Steve's suggestion of changing the gap time to zero is exactly right.  However, this is providing your original tracks don't have any gaps at the beginning or end.  If they do, the gap will be included and result in some silence.  It's very easy in Audition to simply cut off any silence at the beginning and end of each track then re-save.

After that you'll get music spliced together with no gaps.

I do suggest you have a read of those two tutorials.  They give various methods to create CDs depending on exactly what you want.

[stephanies43104885]

Replied to email. Didn't fix the problem. Thank you

[Bob Howes]

If what you want is an automatic crossfade (rather than just continuous sound with no breaks) I don't recall 2015 doing that automatically either.

Most of my sound work is for theatre and I always have to produce a mood CD for people walking into the auditorium.  I like that to be continuous with a fade between each track....I do this by creating a multitrack session then dragging all the music I want into a single track.  Dragging the music to slightly overlap with the previous creates an automatic crossfade--I just do this until I have a long enough CD then mix it down and the CD shows a single (long) track.

If you want to be able to go to specific tracks, you can add markers...but if you crossfade obviously you won't get a clean start.

Durin Gleaves (who's the Product Manager for Audition and a thoroughly nice guy but don't tell him I said so) did a couple of blogs going through all the CD burning options.

Creating CDs in Adobe Audition: Part 1 | Creative Cloud blog by Adobe

Creating CDs in Adobe Audition: Part 2 | Creative Cloud blog by Adobe

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Bob+Howes  wrote

If what you want is an automatic crossfade (rather than just continuous sound with no breaks) I don't recall 2015 doing that automatically either.

It didn't! In fact Audition has never done an 'automatic' anything, really, and certainly never cross-fades. The OP may be confusing Audition with some other software...

[stephanies43104885]

I must not be explaining myself correctly. The original 2015 did in fact allow you to burn a CD with the music spliced / overlapping together like the old school days of splicing music with a mixed tape. I have several songs on a CD that I burned. I'm not getting confused with another software. What an insult.  I don't want a fade but thank you for explaining it incase I need it in the future. Thanks again for trying to help me but I will figure things out on my own.