[slinkelist] CD Mastering

[Ron Chrisley]

Martin,

I use two programs to do what you are talking about:  The first is to
capture the audio onto my HD, normalise it, reduce noise, and split into
tracks by saving as different wav files; the second is to write the CD
itself (and print out inserts).

For the first, I use the excellent Cool Edit Pro.  There is a free version,
Cool Edit 96, which will do everything you need.

For the second, I used to use Adaptec's EZCD creator, but had problems when
extracting wav files from existing CDs -- if the tracks segued, then some
music would be missing (maybe this is fixed now, or is not a problem in
their deluxe version).  So I switched to Ahead's Nero.  The advantage of
Nero is that you can write CD-Text info to the disc (which CDJ recognises,
which is good since your own CDRs will probably not be picked up by CDDB).
There is a free working demo at www.ahead.de.

Ron.