[ReZound-users] Cues and Markers in wav and aiff files (was: Re: Parabolic crossfade affects both channels)

[John O. <jo...@mc...>]

Davey,

On Sunday 21 March 2004 12:54 am, you wrote:
> Re: Parabolic crossfade affects both channels
>Well, .wav and .aiff files support 'cues' or 'markers' in their format 
>information.  So I'm just reading those, and great, gcdmaster writes them.

Thankfully I was wrong about gcdmaster putting cues into a .wav file itself. I 
had expected it to write only to the toc file, which once again I think is 
correct. The mystery red dots must have been left over SoundForge markers, as 
opposed to SoundForge Regions, which also display in the ruler over the top 
of the ReZound display but without the red dot.  Regions will not divide the 
output when ReZound burns a CD, however. I have yet to try burning with the 
SoundForge placed markers, which, like ReZound cues, show up as red dots but 
with just a padded 2 digit number following. The example that I have requires 
overburning which I have not gotten to work from ReZound, although gcdmaster 
handles overburning through cdrdao fine. 

By the way, when the cue list goes over an hour of recorded material, the 01: 
in the first position on the line causes the tracks starting after one hour 
to be listed before the preceding tracks. Again a very low priority problem. 

If you have not looked at gcdmaster, give it a gander. (It is part of the 
cdrdao package on Gentoo). It allows the tracks of a CD-R to be assembled 
from a variety of different sources. Everything is stored in easily edited 
and understood toc files instead of directly in the .wav files. Starting it 
up the first time is a little confusing: gcdmaster <enter>, select New Audio 
Project, and Edit>Append File to get the .wav you want loaded. After 
inserting track markers, etc, you save a toc file, which you can then load 
again with "Open existing project" for future use. 

It seems to me that the chief value of a program like gcdmaster is to 
facilitate on-demand production of disks. Different compilations of the same 
material can be managed without redundancy. Once the toc file is set up 
correctly, the actual copies could be made from the commandline with cdrdao, 
elminating all the GUI/.wav file loading overhead. 

Anyway I think ReZound and gcdmaster have complementary roles, and I wanted to 
make sure you were aware of this alternate approach to burning. I certainly 
appreciate the ability to burn what is already loaded in ReZound. But I don't 
think I want to load ReZound or gcdmaster every time I want to burn a disk 
either. 

Many thanks,

John