Hey Members,

This may sound like either a silly question or one that was asked many times before. I, like many others have MP3's, some which are long compilations. I am inpatient about fast forwarding to the time of another song that I like. Is there a way that I can place a marker at a certain timeframe and be able to skip to that time.

I have Nero Ultra (Nero Wav Editor) and use that alot. Does anyone have an Idea or know of another Software package that can edit this.

Thanks for you responses

Sounds like you want to create a cue file to go with it and use a player that recognizes the pair. I don't know how to do this myself but I'm sure someone here can.

MP3DirectCut can help you create CUE sheets and can split mp3 files and even apply fades without re-encoding or lowering quality.

You could use a site like cuesheet heaven to simplify things or you can use the visual cues to indications of loudness shown in the mp3directcut graph.

foobar2000 is a player with full Cuesheet support.

thanks for your quick responce. I looked up what CUE SHEETS are, Title, Name of Artist, etc. and this isn't what I'm looking for but let me try to discribe this in more detail:

I have a Mix that is 75 minutes long, some songs on the compilation I like and some I don't. I don't want to cut the trax out and make a whole CD. I want to take the MIX { 1 long track } and lets say place a "MARKER" ( which I know isn't the correct Technical term for this) at every 15 minute interval. maybe, there are songs at 5minutes, 12 minutes, 16minutes, 23 minutes, 35 minutes, and 45 minutes into the cd (compilation). I want to jump to those minutes without cutting out the trax themselves.

I have a CD like this where I can press the TRACK button on the cd player and it'll go to the next song, but if I left it alone then the CD would play continously, it would flow.

thanks again for any and all responces...



PST

ok, I'm gonna try MP3Direct CuT



what do I have to LOOSE....


PST

No cue sheets would let you view it as different tracks.

CUE sheet:
Compatible with some very good software players (foobar2000, WinAmp among others).
Compatible with only few hardware MP3 players (AFAIK, only those updated to use Rockbox 'firmware').
Makes it just like the index on a CD and allows tracks to be selected, skipped, shuffled or played as a single seamless file. Can also permit HTOA (hidden track one audio).
I believe mp3DirectCut can be used to help you create a CUE sheet from an unknown album and detect silences that might indicate track changes. You can leave the large MP3 alone but create a .CUE file to tell the player where the tracks are within it. Alternatively, you can edit it in a text editor by hand.

Splitting to individual MP3s:
You can use MP3DirectCut (or similar programs) to split the MP3 into a number of separate files, one per track.
You can then play the tracks individually in any MP3 player and skip or shuffle.
Any seamless transitions between tracks may be damaged.

Use mp3DirectCut to split by CUE sheet:
You can do both using mp3DirectCut and keep a large MP3 (to play alone in any MP3 player, or via its CUE file in those players that support it) as well as a folder full of individual track01.mp3 files which you can play in any player albeit losing gapless playback in most.

hey,

thanks for all of the responces but I have a few questions. I just looked at the CD (THUDERPUSS) and in MY COMPUTER, it shows 0bytes. I explore the CD and it shows 15 tracks on the CD. If I right click and PLAY, it plays in Musicmatch. I open Winamp and add all files to the playlist. the files extension is .cda for all of the tracks.

I am playing the first track and there was some seperation between the tracks as winamp changes the track # to the next number. oddly enough, in my car there isn't that gap.


any idea???????

Hey Peeps,

I think that I have figured it out but need to make some test CD's. Will post the details in the morning.