Splitting songs- impossible?

[Futzelman]

I have been trying to split songs with the following software:
-SPIN DOCTOR
-MUSICMATCH
-MUSICGRABBER
These programs "supposedly" have an option that allows the software to recognize when a song came to an end because of the pause. But even when I set the bar to maximum sensitivity, it NEVER recognizes that the song has stopped and so it continues to record various songs as one!!
Only when I press stop on my cassette deck it recognizes it...any idea what to do?
I finally want to be able to record my tapes on CDs and this is throwing a monkey wrench at me.

Thank you
Futzel

[Ruahrc]

I've heard there are MP3/WMA/WAV trimming utilities out there, lots of free ones too. Maybe try looking for one of those?

Ruahrc

[Futzelman]

Thank you... Do you think that they are better than the ones that come included?
Have you tired them?

Thanks though!

Futzel

[Futzelman]

I think that there has to be a good software program that allows for good song splitting. Anything else is just too much fidling around just to record one tape.
I would have thought that Spin Doctor was better since it is retail rather than freeware but it is not.
I just want to play the tape, press record and have the software recognize the time interval between songs...


My search continues....

[alondra]

OK I think you want to do what I have been doing. copying cassetes to CD but each song a different track. OK. I am using the soft ware that came with my SB live card. I save the tracks to a folder on the HD. play the tape, monitoring it on the comp. keep finger on the stop and record button at the end of each song "stop" then "record " during the gap. this will create each song as a separate file. you can save a bunch of songs from different tapes. then when you burn the CD select the tracks you want, enough for the whole CD, as if you quit you cannot add to the CD. I make CDs with cuts from different cassetes. Hope this helps

[rh71]

Let me understand what you're trying to do... you have a CD and are trying to make each track an MP3 or WAV file right?

Easy, use CDex (http://www.cdex.n3.net/) (plus LAME encoder) to encode (rip) them as a WAV or MP3. If you need to do anything to each song individually, you can use Goldwave or SoundForge... there are tons of options in each of those programs.

[Futzelman]

I will try CDEX.
I want to record my tapes and I want the software to recognize each individual track so that each track is assigned its own track number (track 1, track 2 etc).
None of the software packages that I mentioned were able to do this because they could not discenr the moment of silence that exists between tracks!
Anyway, I will try your suggestion! Thank you.

Futzel

[JacobM5727]

you might be able to use a program like cool edit to cut and paste parts of the song to make 1 song into two, then recombine them

..maybe