MusicMatch

Hi,
This might have been asked before, but does anyone know how to make one track from a CD, using MusicMatch? (for e.g. I'd like to rip Floyds' Wall CD1 ito one track..)
Thanks,
~Yogi.

I don't know how to do it in MusicMatch, as I don't own that program. But in most of the programs I've seen you do it like this:

- Select only one track for ripping as if you were only going to rip that one song. Say, for instance, let's make it the the last track. Unselect the rest of the tracks.

- Alter the start-time of that last selected track so that it starts at 00:00 on the CD. I don't know how to do this in your software, but in Audiocatalyst, you do this by right-clicking on the track and setting its properties.

- Rip that one track, which is now a single huge hour-long track.

Hey Yogi,

I work for MusicMatch, so hopefully I can answer your question...If you switch the recorder to record from the system mixer, and then play the CD, you can record the whole CD as one track, since you're just recording the sound signal running through the system mixer. The program has no sense of track gaps. Just make sure "Auto Song Detect" is not enabled under the advanced recorder settings.

But then you add one more D/A layer to the mix. And probably a pretty lousy one at that, considering the great audiophile quality of the electronics in computer CD drives and audio cards.

I can't believe you just posted that.

Why would you want an hour long track?...

Why would you want an hour long track?...

Because some pieces of music are best when listened to as a single unit. Some rock operas, for example. Or Pink Floyd albums.

Until we can get gapless playback working perfectly, doing the "single track" trick is the best way to get things sounding perfect without a "blip" between songs.

Although doing it by recording through the PC's mixer is the wrong way to do it. An analog recording is never as good as a proper digital rip. If Musicmatch can't let you edit track start/end positions, then you should use a different piece of software to do the rip.

I agree with you...using the System Mixer in MusicMatch is probably not the best way to do it. I was just offering a solution with the software. I'm sure there's any number of programs that would do a better job.

Personally, I'd probably just use a recording program like Cool Edit. Only problem is that most of those programs won't do the MP3 conversion on the fly, so you'd have to record the entire thing into a .wav (which I've done before, actually). Just make sure you have lots of room on your hard drive.

There are other programs, such as TotalRecorder, which will do the conversion on the fly. But, I think it goes through the system mixer as well.

There seems to be some danger that this is becoming a "How to rip" thread that doesn't mention Exact Audio Copy.

To record a whole cd as one WAV (or one MP3 if you've got a compressor such as lame configured in), press F7 then Return. End of story.

Peter